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3 Dell EMC PowerVault ME4024 and VMware Horizon View with 1,300 Persistent VDI Users | 3919-RA-VDI
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Objectives ........................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 PowerVault ME4024 overview ..................................................................................................................................... 6
2 PowerVault ME4024 features ....................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 All-around simplicity ............................................................................................................................................ 7
2.2 Affordable enterprise-level capabilities ............................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Optimized for SAN and DAS .............................................................................................................................. 7
2.4 Data protection ................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Improved hardware and performance ................................................................................................................ 8
2.6 Simplified data management .............................................................................................................................. 8
2.7 Fast recovery with ADAPT ................................................................................................................................. 8
3 Solution architecture ..................................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Environment ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
3.2 Software .............................................................................................................................................................. 9
3.2.1 Software components ......................................................................................................................................... 9
3.2.2 VMware vSphere host ........................................................................................................................................ 9
3.2.3 VMware Horizon 7.6 ........................................................................................................................................... 9
3.2.4 Microsoft Windows 10 ...................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2.5 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 ....................................................................................................................... 11
3.3 Hardware .......................................................................................................................................................... 11
3.3.1 Hardware components ..................................................................................................................................... 11
3.3.2 Storage ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.3.3 Hosting environment ......................................................................................................................................... 12
3.3.4 Connectivity ...................................................................................................................................................... 13
4 Testing ........................................................................................................................................................................ 14
4.1 Test objectives .................................................................................................................................................. 14
4.2 Test tools .......................................................................................................................................................... 14
4.2.1 Load generation ................................................................................................................................................ 14
4.2.2 Load monitoring ................................................................................................................................................ 14
4.3 Storage monitoring ........................................................................................................................................... 16