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Environment
12 Dell EMC PowerVault ME4024 and VMware Horizon View with 1,300 Persistent VDI Users | 3919-RA-VDI
3.3.3 Hosting environment
The environment running the VMs makes up the majority of the hardware required. The power, rack space,
cooling, and management requirements are much larger than the storage components. This is normal based
on the processing power and memory requirements of 1,300 virtual machines.
Host configuration
Component
Description
Host
PowerEdge M620, two 8-core Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processor E5-2680, 320 GB RAM
Operating system
vSphere 6.7
Fibre Channel
QLogic
®
QME2572 HBA, Brocade M6505 chassis-based switch
Network
Dell EMC Networking MXL 10 Gb dual-port Ethernet module
Virtual desktop configuration
2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, VMXNet3, 40 GB volume
Virtual machine configurations
Component
Description
Infrastructure VMs
6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, VMXNet3 vNIC
Operating system
Windows Server 2016
vNIC
VMXNet3
Applications
Microsoft Active Directory
®
, DNS, DHCP, vCenter Servers, Horizon
Connection and Composer servers, Microsoft SQL Server
®
, DSM
Storage
Component
Description
PowerVault ME4024
Dual-controller storage array
16Gb Fibre Channel
4 Fibre Channel ports, 2 per controller
GT275R003-01
Storage firmware
Drives
24 x 480 GB SSDs
RAID
ADAPT
Pools
Virtual pools