Dell Appliance for Wyse - Vworkspace™
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Dell Appliance for Wyse - vWorkspace™ Dell Engineering January 2016 A Dell Appliance Architecture Revisions Date Description June 2015 Initial release with vWorkspace 8.5. September 2015 Revision 1.1. Qualification of vWorkspace 8.6. Addition of a pilot configuration. Adjustments to appliance hardware configuration. January 2016 Revision 2.0. Scale Out option added THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, HARDWARE SELECTIONS CONTAINED WITHIN ARE FROM THE BASIS OF BEST WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Copyright © 2015 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this material in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. For more information, contact Dell. Dell, the Dell logo, and the Dell badge are trademarks of Dell Inc. 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A Dell Appliance Architecture Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 1.1 Purpose ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.2 Scope ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 1.3 What’s New ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 2 Solution Architecture Overview .............................................................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Large Density Appliance ................................................................................................................................................ 6 2.3 Pilot / Small Density Appliance ..................................................................................................................................... 6 2.4 Custom Configuration Appliance ................................................................................................................................ 7 2.5 Scale Out .......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 3 Hardware Components .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 3.1 Dell Appliance for Wyse ............................................................................................................................................... 10 PowerEdge R730 ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 PowerEdge T630 ............................................................................................................................................................ 11 3.2 Dell Wyse Cloud Clients ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Wyse 3020 Thin Client (ThinOS) ................................................................................................................................. 11 Wyse 5010 (ThinOS) ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Wyse 5010 Thin Client (Windows Embedded Standard 8) .................................................................................... 12 Wyse 7010 Thin Client (Windows Embedded Standard 8) .................................................................................... 12 Wyse 5040 AIO .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Dell Venue 11 Pro .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Dell Chromebook 11 ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 4 Software Components ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 4.1 Broker Technology ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 Dell Wyse vWorkspace ................................................................................................................................................. 14 4.2 Hypervisor Platforms .................................................................................................................................................... 15 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V .......................................................................................................... 15 4.3 Dell Quick Start Tool (QST) ......................................................................................................................................... 16 4.4 Operating Systems ........................................................................................................................................................ 17 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 ........................................................................................................................... 17 Microsoft Windows 8.1 ................................................................................................................................................. 17 A Dell Appliance Architecture 4.5 Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) ..................................................................................................................... 17 NUMA Architecture Considerations .......................................................................................................................... 17 Large Density Appliance NUMA Alignment .............................................................................................................. 17 Pilot / Small Density Appliance NUMA Alignment .................................................................................................. 18 5 Solution Architecture for vWorkspace ................................................................................................................................. 19 5.1 Management Role Configuration ............................................................................................................................... 19 Hyper-V Management Role Requirements .............................................................................................................. 19 RDSH on Hyper-V ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 SQL Databases ............................................................................................................................................................... 20 DNS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 20 5.2 Storage Architecture Overview .................................................................................................................................. 20 5.3 Virtual Networking ........................................................................................................................................................ 20 Hyper-V........................................................................................................................................................................... 20 5.4 Appliance Density ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 5.5 Dell Wyse Datacenter for vWorkspace Communication Flow ............................................................................. 23 6 Solution Performance and Testing ....................................................................................................................................... 24 6.1 Load Generation and Monitoring ..............................................................................................................................