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Desktop Virtualization Corey Hynes Kyle Rosenthal President Technical Lead HynesITe Inc Spider Consulting @windowspcguy
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2. Module 10 Planning VDI Infrastructure

3. Design & Architecture Guidelines
Use Building Blocks for Scale-Out and Multi-Site Deployments
HA for VDI/RDS requires HA for other Services
Active Directory
File Service
Print Service
Interfaces/Impact on other Services
SCCM / Software Deployment
WSUS / Patch Management
SCVMM / Virtual Machine Management
SCEP / Anti-Malware
App-V to enhance flexibility for App-Management

4. Servers & Sizing How many users can I fit on Server Type X?
No general statement possible – you have to test it!
Factors that impact sizing
Applications
User Behavior
RDS or VDI
Pooled or Personal VDI
Storage Type (local, SAN, SMB, Disk-Types)

5. Storage – Local vs. Shared
Local (attached to a single server)
Pooled VDI VM instances
RD Session Host
Shared (attached to multiple servers)
RD Infrastructure VMs (WebAccess, Broker, Gateway, Licence Server)
Personal VDI
User Profile Disk
Pooled VDI Template
Options include traditional clustering, CSV attached storage, or SMB attached storage.

6. Storage - Performance Don‘t size storage for capacity!
Gather data about the required IOPS for the workload
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for real world data
Login VSI for benchmarking/simulated user load
Consider Solid State Disks for local storage
Could be very efficient compared to traditional disks
Leverage integration with Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces Auto-Tiering

7. Planning Storage Technologies
Disk Deduplicaton/Storage Tiering
Implement on base image and export image shares to reduce storage
Implement on volumes used by private desktops.
Consider using CiB Solutions for reduced costs and good performance

8. Storage – Disk vs. SSD RAID not included Efficiency comparison
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Storage – Disk vs. SSD
RAID not included
Efficiency comparison
Scenario 1:
200 RDS Users
Single Server
7 IOPS/User
4 RDS VMs
40 GB/VM
Scenario 2:
200 Personal VDI Users
4 Servers
12 IOPS/User
SATA 1000GB: $100 | SAS 146GB: $200 | SAS 600GB: $270 | SSD 128GB: $500 | SSD: 400GB $1100
Disk Type
Size/Disk
IOPS/Disk
# Disks
Sum IOPS
$/IOPS
Sum $
SATA 7.2k
1000 GB 75 19
1425
1,33
1900
SAS 15k
146 GB
175 8
1400
1,14
1600
SSD
128 GB
4500 2
9000
0,11
1000
Disk Type
Size/Disk
IOPS/Disk
# Disks
Sum IOPS
$/IOPS
Sum $
SATA 7.2k
1000 GB 75 32
2025
1,58
3200
SAS 15k
600 GB
175 14
2450
1,54
3780
SSD
400 GB
4500 20
90000
0,24
22000
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9. Networking Load Balancing Options for RD WebAccess & RD Gateway
Round-Robin DNS
Microsoft Network Load Balancing
HW Load Balancer
Accuratly model user networking needs
Ensure enough bandwidth out of hosting infrastructure to network resources.

10. Optimizations Guidelines for Windows 8 VDI Optimization
Adjust Windows services configuration
Adjust Software Deployment Tools (e.g. SCCM) – especially for pooled VDI
Adjust Anti-Malware exclusions and scan settings (e.g. no/randomized scheduled scans on pooled VDI)
Check scheduled tasks
Use App-V shared content store to reduce image size
Place pooled VDI template (Gold Image) on fast disks/SSDs (auto-tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2)
Assure high-bandwidth/low latency connection to file & application servers
Optimization scripts available

11. Partner & 3rd Party Offerings
Citrix XenDesktop 7
Add-on Solution to Microsoft VDI & Remote Desktop Services
Cross Platform client software (e.g. Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, Unix, Solaris…)
Management Tools for large (5000+ users) infrastructures
Support for mixed infrastructures of Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
Integrated real-time monitoring for user experience and performance
Dell vWorkspace (Quest), Desktone, etc.

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