VMware NetApp FAS 2050HA, Manual

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1 INTRODUCTION TO VMWARE VIEW
Built on VMware’s industry-leading virtualization platform, VMware® View is a Universal Client solution
that lets you manage operating systems, hardware, applications and users independently of each other,
wherever they may reside. VMware® View streamlines desktop and application management, reduces
costs and increases data security through centralization, resulting in greater end user flexibility and IT
control. VMware View enables customers to extend the value of VMware Infrastructure and virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments to encompass not only desktops in the datacenter but also
applications and the delivery of these environments securely to remote clients, online or off, anywhere.
VMware View transforms the way customers use and manage desktop operating systems. Desktop
instances can be rapidly deployed in secure data centers to facilitate high availability and disaster
recovery, protect the integrity of enterprise information, and remove data from local devices that are
susceptible to theft or loss. Isolating each desktop instance in its own virtual machine eliminates typical
application compatibility issues and improves and delivers a more personal computing environment.
2 ABOUT THIS GUIDE
This deployment guide provides a detailed summary and characterization for designing and configuring a
NetApp FAS2050HA storage system for use with VMware View and Linked Clones. It describes a
validated configuration for a 1000 user workload where 500 desktops are in persistent access mode and
500 users are in non-persistent access mode. This guide can be easily scaled up for larger deployments
by simply increasing the number of servers, storage controllers, and storage needed.
The configuration presented was validated in accordance with a recommended architecture as defined
in the
VMware View Reference Architecture: A Guide to Large-scale VMware View Deployments . This
guide is intended to offer Systems Architects and Administrators guidance with the configuration of a
NetApp FAS2050HA storage system for use with such VMware View based environments. The
information provided in this guide also can be helpful to anyone looking to deploy VMware View with
Linked Clones using a NetApp FAS2050HA.
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n addition, due to all NetApp FAS storage controllers
having the same feature and management interface consistency with Data ONTAP®, all of these
guidelines can also be directly applied to entry-level and enterprise-class NetApp FAS storage controllers.
All of the NetApp best practices applicable to this solution configuration are documented in NetApp’s
TR-
3428: NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices , TR-3705: NetApp and
VMware View Solution Guide and TR-3505: NetApp Deduplication for FAS Deployment and
Implementation Guide and have been used in the creation and validation of this environment.
3 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
3.1 TERMINOLOGY
Term Definition
Aggregate Pool of physical storage that contains logical volumes
CIFS Common Internet File System
Deduplication
A technology that seeks out duplicate data, removes the duplicate data and replaces
it with a reference pointer to the previously stored, identical object
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