Reference Architecture for 1,000 Users with Vmware Horizon (With View), Tintri Vmstore and Cisco UCS
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Reference Architecture for 1,000 Users with VMware Horizon (with View), Tintri VMstore and Cisco UCS VMware® Horizon™ 6 (with View™) TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER View on Tintri VMstore Reference Architecture for 1,000 Users Table of Contents Executive Summary .............................................................................. 3 VDI Fundamentals ................................................................................. 4 Solution Overview ................................................................................. 4 Hardware Components ............................................................................... 5 Server ....................................................................................................... 5 Network..................................................................................................... 5 Storage ..................................................................................................... 6 Software Components ................................................................................ 7 VMware vSphere ...................................................................................... 7 View .......................................................................................................... 7 Testing Summary .................................................................................. 9 Detailed Results .................................................................................... 9 Desktop Configuration ............................................................................... 9 Workload Testing – Login Virtual Session Indexer (LoginVSI) 4.1 ........ 10 Operations Testing – View ....................................................................... 10 Resiliency Testing – View ........................................................................ 10 Appendix A: Architecture Design ...................................................... 11 View Block ................................................................................................. 12 View Management Block .......................................................................... 13 Logical Storage Design ............................................................................ 13 Logical Network Design ........................................................................... 14 Distributed Virtual Switch Infrastructure .................................................. 14 Network Physical Design Specification ................................................... 15 Network Optimization for PCoIP .............................................................. 16 Load Balancing ....................................................................................... 16 Business Continuity ................................................................................. 17 Appendix B: Technical Design Specifications .................................. 17 View Management Block .......................................................................... 17 View Connection Server .......................................................................... 18 Global Policies ........................................................................................ 18 Active Directory Integration ..................................................................... 19 View Client GPO Template ..................................................................... 19 View Server GPO Template .................................................................... 20 View Agent GPO Template ..................................................................... 20 PCoIP GPO Template ............................................................................. 21 View Security Server ............................................................................... 21 vCenter Operations ................................................................................. 23 Kaspersky Antivirus ................................................................................ 23 VMware vShield Manager™ ..................................................................... 24 Active Directory Domain Controller ......................................................... 24 VMware ThinApp® Repository (OPTIONAL) ............................................ 25 Windows Print Server .............................................................................. 25 TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER /1 View on Tintri VMstore Reference Architecture for 1,000 Users Windows DHCP or DNS Server .............................................................. 25 View Pod .................................................................................................... 26 View Manager – Global Settings Configuration ....................................... 26 View Manager – vCenter Server Configuration ....................................... 27 View Block ........................................................................................... 27 View Composer ......................................................................................... 27 Database Connections ............................................................................ 27 Virtual Machine Image Build.................................................................... 28 Sizing VMware ESXi Hosts ....................................................................... 29 CPU Sizing ............................................................................................. 29 Memory Sizing ........................................................................................ 29 Storage Sizing – Dedicated Linked Clones ............................................. 30 Appendix C: Validation ....................................................................... 32 Workload Testing ...................................................................................... 32 Operations Testing ................................................................................... 42 Appendix D: Bill of Materials .............................................................. 43 References ........................................................................................... 44 TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER /2 View on Tintri VMstore Reference Architecture for 1,000 Users Executive Summary This reference architecture is based on real-world test scenarios, user workloads, and infrastructure system configurations. It combines the technologies of the Tintri VMstore (running the newest Tintri OS 3.0) with VMware® ESXi™ 5.5, and Horizon 6 (with View) software to produce a highly efficient, robust, and scalable virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for a hosted virtual desktop deployment for 1,000 users. A virtual desktop deployment places high performance demands on compute (CPU and memory), network, and storage systems. The number of I/O operations and the resources required for servicing the operating system boot, login, logout, and workload of a large number of desktops can stress the entire infrastructure. The solution offers: • Single storage platform (Tintri VMstore T650) • High performance, easy to manage, highly dense compute platform (Cisco UCS B-series Blades) • Highly available and resilient design providing fault tolerance for the 1,000 virtual desktop system • End-to-end virtualization, with all Windows 7 SP1 virtual desktops and supporting infrastructure components, including VMware vCenter™, Active Directory, profile servers, SQL Servers, and View components • View with PCoIP display protocol to deliver a high-performance desktop experience with host-rendered flash video and other demanding applications All the configuration outlined in this Reference Architecture is performed on the vSphere and Horizon (with View) software; there is almost zero configuration required in the Tintri VMstore – the product is fully tuned and ready to use the moment it gets an IP address. This paper includes the results of a series of storage I/O performance tests, generated by LoginVSI 4.1 -- the industry-standard VDI performance testing tool -- on one test pool consisting of 1,000 users, and provides storage sizing guidance and best practices based on those results for designing and deploying View virtual desktops on a Tintri VMstore T650. All 1,000 users running an office worker workload completed successfully for the test pool, without pegging CPUs, exhausting memory, or overloading storage systems. TEST POOL VSI RESPONSE TIME (VSIMAX V4.1 THRESHOLD = 2066) 1,000 dedicated desktops, linked clones 1153 (@ 200 Sessions) to 1683 (@ 1,000 sessions) TEST DEDICATED LINKED CLONES 1,000 desktops provisioned 1 hours 37 minutes 1,000 desktops recomposed 1 hour 52 minutes 1,000 desktops refreshed 36 minutes Pool deleted 27 minutes Table 1. Test Results TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER /3 View on Tintri VMstore Reference Architecture for 1,000 Users VDI Fundamentals A successful VDI project ultimately depends on three key characteristics: • Simplicity: Administrators responsible for initially configuring and managing an environment are the most obvious beneficiaries of management simplicity. At the risk of seeming hard- hearted, however, financially motivated executives care surprisingly little how hard someone has to work to perform their job. What they do care about, however, is the success or failure of new projects, how quickly they can be rolled out, and how costly they will be to manage. Keeping things simple is the surest way to ensure quick and continued success. • Low cost: While