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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

VMware Virtual SAN


The new release of Horizon 6 View fully supports VMware virtual SAN (VSAN) storage policies. VMware VSAN is a storage feature integrated in the vSphere 5.5 kernel that pools internal disk drives across multiple ESXi hosts. You will need a minimum of 3, as shown in the following screenshot:

The distributed architecture of this software-defined storage feature enables the parameters of the storage policy to be enforced despite any changes in workload demands of the virtual machine, along with hardware or network failures. Administrators will define storage requirements, such as performance and availability, for the virtual machines running on a VSAN cluster. Administration of a cluster and implementation of storage policies is issued using the vSphere 5.5 Web Client.

Each host in the VSAN cluster requires at least one solid-state drive that is used for caching the reads and also buffering writes, along with at least one hard disk drive. The hard drive is for the actual data...