In this chapter, we covered the concept of stateful and stateless desktops, as well as the consequences and techniques for supporting each in a highly available environment. We covered strategies for utilizing local storage only clusters and configuring shared storage environments.

In the next chapter, we will cover storage HA with VMware Virtual SAN. It can be used to provide highly available storage to clusters with local only storage. This is very useful for VMware View desktops and can be used to provide large amounts of compute resources without significant cost.