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Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Desktop Virtualization with VMware View
- 3 Infrastructure and test configuration
- 4 View test methodology
- 5 Test results and analysis
- 6 Sizing guidelines for EqualLogic SANs
- 7 Best Practices
- 8 Conclusions
- Appendix A VMware View 5.1 solution configuration
- Appendix B Network design and VLAN configuration
- Appendix C ESXi host network configuration
- Additional resources
BP1033 Deploying VMware View 5.1 on VMware vSphere 5.0 U1 with Dell EqualLogic Storage
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3.4 ESXi host network configuration
VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 hypervisor was installed on all 16 blades. The network configuration on each of those
hosts is described below. Each ESXi host was configured with three virtual switches: vSwitch0, vSwitch1,
and vSwitchISCSI to separate the different types of traffic on the system.
Table 2 vSwitch configuration in ESXi
vSwitch
Description
vSwitch0
Management Network
vSwitch1
VDI LAN
vSwitchISCSI
iSCSI SAN
For additional information on individual vSwitch configuration, refer to Appendix C.
3.5 VMware View configuration
View 5.1 was installed by following the documentation provided by VMware.
View 5.1 Documentation: http://pubs.vmware.com/view-51/index.jsp
Here are the specific configuration decisions used in the configuration:
• Two View servers were configured to provide load balancing and high availability.
• The View servers were installed as VMs on two separate hosts with two virtual CPUs, 10GB of RAM,
and 40GB virtual hard drive.
• The first View Server was installed as a “View Standard Server” during the installation, while the
second View Server was installed as a “View Replica Server”.
• View Composer was installed on the same VM as the vCenter server, even though View 5.1 provides
the option of installing it on a stand-alone VM. There was no difference found in performance with
either option.
• Self-signed SSL certificates were applied to the VMware vCenter server VM and View 5.1 server VMs.
3.6 VMware View Pool configuration
The Add pool wizard in View was used to choose the following specific configuration options to create the
virtual desktop pools.
• Virtual desktop pool type: Automated Pool
• User Assignment: Floating
• vCenter Server: View Composer linked clones
• View Composer Disks: Redirect disposable files to a non-persistent disk of size 4096MB
• Storage Optimization: Select separate datastores for replica and OS disk
• Advanced Storage Options: Use host caching
• Guest Customization: Sysprep
More information about View Pool configuration can be found in the VMware View 5.1 documentation:
http://pubs.vmware.com/view-51/topic/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-0A9CA985-3A78-
428A-BCFB-B3E2DCCA90AD.html