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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

Capacity-sizing exercises


Sizing the storage infrastructure correctly might be the difference between succeeding or failing in a VDI rollout. Many deployments that have excellent performance during the pilot and initial production quickly start to run into storage contention issues because of the lack of understanding of the storage layer.

In the next section, we will discuss a few sizing exercises for different VMware View implementations.

Sizing full clones

Let's see two scenarios for sizing full clones.

Scenario 1

The following are the parameters:

  • Desktops: 1,000

  • Pool type: Dedicated (full clones)

  • Guest OS: Windows 7

  • RAM: 2 GB

  • Disk size: 40 GB

  • Disk consumption: 22 GB

  • Overhead: 10 percent

Parent VM

The parent VM may be thin or thick provisioned and is usually powered off. If the parent VM is thick provisioned, its size is similar to the creation of the disk plus logfiles. For example, if the parent VM disk size is set to 40 GB, this will be the approximate size of the parent VM.

If the parent VM is created...