Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Reference Architecture A Reference Architecture for the design, configuration and implementation of a Microsoft RDS environment. Dell Engineering May 2017 A Dell Reference Architecture Revisions Date Description May 2017 Initial release THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Copyright © 2017 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Dell and the Dell logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. 2 Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Reference Architecture | May 2017 Table of contents Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Purpose .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 1.2 Scope .................................................................................................................................................................. 6 1.3 What’s New ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 2 Soluiton Architecture Overview .................................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.2 Physical Architecture Overview .......................................................................................................................... 7 2.3 Solution Layers ................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.3.1 Networking .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.3.2 Compute ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 2.3.3 Management ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.3.4 Storage ............................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.4 Local Tier 1 ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.4.1 Base Offering .................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.4.2 Local Tier 1 for Rack Servers ........................................................................................................................... 12 2.4.3 Local Tier 1 for Blade Servers .......................................................................................................................... 14 2.5 Shared Tier 1 Rack ........................................................................................................................................... 17 2.5.1 Shared Tier 1 for Rack Servers ........................................................................................................................ 17 2.6 Shared Tier 1 Blade .......................................................................................................................................... 21 2.6.1 Shared Tier 1 for Blade Servers ....................................................................................................................... 21 3 Hardware Components .............................................................................................................................................. 25 3.1 Network ............................................................................................................................................................. 25 3.1.1 Dell Networking S-Series S3048 (1Gb ToR Switch) ........................................................................................ 25 3.1.2 Dell Networking S-Series S4048 (10Gb ToR Switch) ...................................................................................... 26 3.1.3 Brocade 6510 (FC ToR Switch) ........................................................................................................................ 26 3.1.4 Brocade M5424 (FC Blade Interconnect) ......................................................................................................... 27 3.1.5 PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator (10Gb Blade Interconnect) ............................................................................... 28 3.2 Servers ............................................................................................................................................................. 28 3.2.1 PowerEdge R730.............................................................................................................................................. 28 3.2.2 PowerEdge M630 ............................................................................................................................................. 30 3.3 Storage ............................................................................................................................................................. 32 3 Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Reference Architecture | May 2017 3.3.1 XtremIO X-Brick – Tier 1 .................................................................................................................................. 32 3.3.2 Unity 300 – Tier 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 34 3.3.3 XtremIO Starter X-Brick - Combined Tier 1 and Tier 2 ..................................................................................... 35 3.4 Dell Wyse Endpoints ........................................................................................................................................ 36 3.4.1 Wyse 3030 LT Thin Client (ThinOS, ThinLinux) ............................................................................................... 36 3.4.2 Wyse 3040 Thin Client (ThinOS, ThinLinux) .................................................................................................... 36 3.4.3 Wyse 5040 AIO Thin Client (ThinOS)............................................................................................................... 37 3.4.4 Wyse 5060 Thin Client (ThinOS, ThinLinux, WES7P, WIE10) ........................................................................ 37 3.4.5 Wyse 7020 Thin Client (WES 7/7P/8, WIE10, ThinLinux) ................................................................................ 37 3.4.6 Wyse 7040 Thin Client (WES7P, WIE10) ........................................................................................................ 38 3.4.7 Latitude E7270 mobile with client (WES7P) ..................................................................................................... 38 4 Software Components ................................................................................................................................................ 40 4.1 Microsoft ........................................................................................................................................................... 40 4.1.1 Remote Desktop Services ................................................................................................................................ 40 4.1.2 Licensing ........................................................................................................................................................... 42 4.1.3 RDSH ................................................................................................................................................................ 42 4.2 Hypervisor Platform .......................................................................................................................................... 44 4.2.1 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V ........................................................................................................ 44 4.3 Optional Management Platform ........................................................................................................................ 45 4.3.1 Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager ................................................................................ 45 5 Solution Architecture for RDS ...................................................................................................................................