HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware …

1 VMware Horizon with View, VMware vSphere , HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server, HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System, Solid-state disk, SmartTier. HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd Page2, Total24 table of Contents 1 Introduction .. 3 2 Solution 4 Single Supplier .. 4 Outstanding Performance and High Scalability .. 4 High Availability .. 5 Quick Deployment .. 5 3 VMware Horizon Overview .. 6 Introduction To VMware Horizon with View .. 6 VMware Horizon with View Infrastructure .. 6 Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure .. 7 4 Reference Architrecture .. 9 Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform .. 9 Server Architecture .. 12 Storage Architecture .. 14 Solution Validation .. 19 5 Conclusion .. 24 HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co.

2 , Ltd Page3, Total24 1 Introduction This reference architecture validation Solution helps IT customers simplify planning, design and deployment of Virtual Desktop scenarios on VMware Horizon with View platform using HUAWEI server and storage system. This Solution helps IT customers implement Virtual desktops with ease and confidence. Using this Solution will bring with the following benefits---faster deployment, high availability, high scalability, reduced risk, predictability, and a lower cost of ownership. Additionally, this Solution is easy to match different customers specific requirements. HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd Page4, Total24 2 Solution Highlights This validated reference architecture provides an implementation blueprint for the VMware Horizon with View VDI Solution deployed using the HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server and OceanStor S5500T storage system with SmartTier solid state disks.

3 HUAWEI validation is designed to help organizations achieve high compatibility, outstanding performance, high scalability and fast deployment with a low total cost of ownership and minimal risk. Single Supplier Devices including blade server, Fibre Channel switch, and network switch and storage system are all from HUAWEI , it is much easier to implement high-degree compatibility, get fast services and decrease maintenance expenses. Outstanding Performance and High Scalability VMware Horizon with View VDI Solution based on HUAWEI platform can supply up to 500 Windows 7 desktops using one OceanStor S5500T with 19 pieces of SAS HDDs and 5 pieces of SSDs ten Tecal BH622 V2 blade servers. With high performance and scalability features of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T storage system and Tecal E6000H blade server, it is easy to scale out up to 1000 desktops with 2 E6000H servers and only one OceanStor S5500T with 38 pieces of inch SAS disks and 10 pieces of SSDs.

4 HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server, supports up to ten blade servers for each chassis. Tecal BH640 V2 blade server with four Intel Xeon E5-4600 CPUs is supported, which means the blade servers can easily be scaled up. For each OceanStor S5500T storage system, it can be scaled out up to 528 HDDs smoothly, and due to the RAID + feature, it is easy to implement storage pool and LUN expansion. HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd Page5, Total24 High Availability Thanks to redundant architecture of HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server and Oceanstor S5500T storage system, it is easy to implement high availability. For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, two NX220 8 Gbps FC switch modules and NX230 10 Gbps ethernet switch modules (optional) are deployed for redundancy. For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, six power supply modules are configured for electronic redundancy.

5 For each HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade server, two 8 Gpbs FC and 1 GBps Ethernet adapters are deployed for redundancy. For each OceanStor S5500T storage system, two active-active controllers are configured for load-balance and controller redundancy. Full-exchanged interconnection between servers and storage is adopted in this Solution to implement storage path redundancy. Quick Deployment Validated VMware Horizon with View Solution by HUAWEI Storage Solution Team, HUAWEI VMware Horizon with View VDI Solution could be deployed much faster with lower investment risk and increased confidence. HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd Page6, Total24 3 VMware Horizon Overview Introduction To VMware Horizon with View VMware Horizon with View is a Desktop virtualization Solution that delivers Virtual Desktop services.

6 It is available as a standalone offering-Horizon with View Standard Edition-or as part of the VMware Horizon family in the Advanced and Enterprise editions. Where security and availability are both high priorities, you can use Horizon with View to simplify and automate the management of desktops and securely deliver desktops as a service to users from a central location. A single administration console provides granular levels of control, allowing you to customize the end-user experience, access, and personalization to support corporate policy. End users get a familiar, personalized environment that they can access from any number of devices anywhere throughout the enterprise or from remote locations. And as an administrator, you have centralized control, efficiency, and security by having Desktop data in the data center. VMware Horizon leverages Desktop virtualization with View and builds on these capabilities, allowing IT to deliver virtualized and remoted Desktop and applications through a single platform and supports users with access to all their Windows and online resources through one unified workspace.

7 By delivering secure access to applications and data to any device, when and where the user needs it, VMware Horizon with View provides end users with the highest levels of mobility and flexibility. VMware Horizon with View Infrastructure The VMware Horizon with View inftastructure contains a series of components, including: VMware vSphere including ESXi , VMware vCenter and vSphere Client ; View Composer ; View Connection/Replica/Security Server ; HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd Page7, Total24 View Agent ; View Client ; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64 Bit With Active Directory, DNS and DHCP; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2; The detailed infrastructure architecture of VMware Horizon with View is showing as follow. VMware Horizon with Infrastracture Architecture Figure1 Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure For Virtual Desktop Inftastructure scenarios, there are lots of challenges, including: A boot storm is caused when a large population of Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI) users boot up which always causes serious pressure for servers and storage system.

8 A login storm is caused when a large population of Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI) users log into their Desktop which causes serious pressure for servers and storage system. Boot storm and login storm are always two huge challenges for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure which bring difficulties for deploying and manage HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd Page8, Total24 virtualization scenarios. -virus Scanning Storm Scheduled anti-virus scanning can cause extremely high pressure for servers and storage system with large scale of random read IOPS. During steady state, about ten random write IOPS would be caused for each Virtual Desktop , which would also cause high pressure for storage system. HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co.

9 , Ltd Page9, Total24 4 Reference Architrecture Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform The detailed Solution infrastructure is provided as following. HUAWEI VMware Horizon with VDI Solution Infrastracture Figure2 In this Solution , one HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server chassis and ten HUAWEI BH622 v2 blade servers are used as ESXi hosts for Virtual Desktop pools. Two HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 rack servers are used, one for VMware vSphere Center with View Composer, and the other for ESXi host to create Virtual Windows Active Directory, DHCP server, DNS server, View Connection Servers , View replica server and View security servers. Detailed configurations for HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server, Tecal RH2288 V2 rack server and OceanStor S5500T storage system are showing as follows. Server configuration The detailed information for HUAWEI E6000H blade chassis and BH622 V2 blade servers used in HUAWEI VMware Horizon with View VDI Solution is showing in table 4-1 and table 4-2.

10 HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon with View 2014-12-23 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd Page10, Total24 Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade Server Chassis Hardware Description HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Chassis 10 * HUAWEI BH622 V2 blade server 2 * HUAWEI NX220 8 Gbps FC switch module 2 * HUAWEI NX230 10 Gbps Ethernet switch module (optional) 2 * HUAWEI NX112 1 Gbps Ethernet switch module 2 * BMC management module 6 * power supply module 9 * thermal fans Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade Server Hardware Description HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 Blade Server CPU: 2 * Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series with HT technology, 32 cores in total Memory: 12 * 16 GB DDRIII Memory Hard Disk: 2 * 300 GB inch 10K RPM SAS Disk Ethernet Adapter: 2 * built-in Intel 82580 1 Gbps ethernet adapter 2 * built-in Intel 82599EB 10 Gbps ethernet adapter(optional) Fibre Channel Adapter.