With today's hardware platforms evolving (the number of server CPU cores is increasing dramatically, 25/100 Gbps network speeds are rapidly increasing, and NVMe SSDs with NAND flash technology are becoming dominant), it's time to redefine how a Horizon® environment can use the new hardware platform to take a big step forward.
VMware vSAN™ 8 provides outstanding performance and efficiency for your next-generation hardware devices, as well as optimized bandwidth, superior efficiency, increased fault tolerance and operational flexibility. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a typical use case for the vSAN Express storage architecture, which enables accelerated deployment with highly automated processes and lowers storage costs compared to legacy storage solutions.
File services are a common requirement in a virtual desktop environment. Traditionally, providing these services involved deploying physical storage arrays or virtual machines (VMs) configured using file protocols such as Network File Service (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB). However, these approaches created additional layers of complexity in areas such as infrastructure design, scaling, and maintenance, which increased administrative costs. VMware's vSAN built-in file service helps ease this burden when file-level sharing is required in a vSAN cluster. Instead of relying on legacy hardware arrays or installing additional virtual machines with associated licensing costs, administrators can simply enable this cluster-level capability in their existing vSAN deployment.
The Dell Poweredge R760 series of servers with vSAN Express storage architecture enables customers to focus on the performance of mission-critical applications rather than building infrastructure, providing simple, flexible and cost-effective solutions to support business needs. The Poweredge R760 Series helps modernize a data center or implement a hybrid cloud with VMware cloud platforms by delivering a factory-ready, engineered system that is pre-configured, tested, verified, pre-loaded and optimized with software, providing the easiest way to build a new VMware hyperconverged infrastructure. (HCI) online environment. Available in multiple models, the Poweredge R760 Series lets you start with as few as three nodes and easily scale capacity and performance without disrupting your day-to-day operations.
Technology overview
VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere is VMware's virtualization platform that transforms data centers into aggregated computing infrastructures that include processors, memory, storage, and network resources. vSphere manages these infrastructures as a single operating environment and provides operators with the tools to administer the data centers participating in this environment. The two main components of vSphere are ESXi™ and vCenter Server®. ESXi is a hypervisor platform used to create and run virtualized workloads. vCenter Server is the management plane for hosts and workloads running on ESXi hosts.
VMware vSAN Express storage architecture
vSAN 8 introduced the Express Storage architecture as an additional storage architecture alternative to the original vSAN storage architecture. When running on certified hardware in an approved vSAN ReadyNode, the vSAN Express storage architecture provides the highest levels of performance, scalability, fault tolerance and data service without compromising performance. The vSAN Express storage architecture unlocks the capabilities of today's hardware, enabling today's and tomorrow's workloads to run as hardware allows.
The vSAN Express storage architecture goes beyond the concept of disk groups, discrete caching, and capacity tiers, allowing users to claim storage devices for vSAN in a "storage pool," where all devices are added to the host's storage pool to increase vSAN capacity. This increases the convenience of maintenance of drives and data availability management, and also helps to reduce costs. A new fast and efficient data transfer path combined with an efficient and fault-tolerant data structure enables our users to store and access data quickly and efficiently. It also provides a completely new snapshot engine that delivers high levels of performance and scalability while remaining fully compatible for use with our independent backup software vendor partners. Finally, the vSAN Express storage architecture simplifies environment administration by improving the utilization of devices as storage resources in the cluster.
VMware Horizon 8
VMware Horizon securely delivers virtual desktops and applications, ensuring a seamless digital workspace - both on-premises and in the cloud. It provides a scalable, cloud-ready platform that modernizes desktop operations with best-in-class management and comprehensive security. Horizon integrates with the VMware ecosystem, creating a complete digital foundation.
The Horizon 8 2306 provides today's distributed workforce with reliable remote work capabilities and enhanced security, while providing IT teams with centralized control. It enables IT professionals to centrally launch and deliver remote desktops and applications from the data center. Users get access to a personalized desktop environment on any device, anywhere. Administrators gain centralized control, efficiency and security with desktop data in the data center.
Solution configuration
This section presents resources and configurations:
- Architecture scheme
- Hardware resources
- Software resources
- Assembling a test image of a virtual machine
- Network configuration
- Storage configuration
- Setting the horizon configuration
Software resources
Conclusion
The combination of VMware Horizon 8 with the VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture provides a highly optimized solution for the infrastructure of virtual desktop computers when deployed on the hardware platform of Dell Poweredge R760 Servers . This approach to converged infrastructure leverages Horizon 8's powerful desktop and application virtualization capabilities, as well as simplified deployment and management provided by the hyperconverged vSAN Express Storage Architecture. Users benefit from simplified provisioning and administration of their VDI workloads using industry-leading technologies from VMware and Dell.
VMware's fully optimized solution provides a simple yet robust VDI environment that increases security, mobility and productivity for end users while reducing complexity and IT costs.
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