Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft VDI and vWorkspace or More Specifically, Personal Virtual Desktops
As some of you may or may not know, I work for Dell and am responsible for the design and production of the Microsoft focused desktop virtualization reference architectures. If you are not familiar with the desktop virtualization offerings from Dell you can check them out in greater detail here.
With all of that said, my first reference architecture at Dell is in the bag. I'll spare myself the humiliation of divulging the internal project name as it is truly embarrassing. That and I suspect there are some corporate no-no's involved with doing so. One of the most interesting things, I think, about this reference architecture is the personal or persistent virtual desktop configuration. This is mostly because the native data deduplication capabilities built into Windows Server 2012 R2 that I wrote about previously. In short, the way this is implemented is by introducing Microsoft Scale Out File Servers between the Hyper-V host and the back end shared storage. For this reference architecture we utilized the Dell PowerEdge R720 servers for the files servers and the Dell EqualLogic PS6100XS hybrid storage array. Below is a representation of each of the reference architecture solution layers.
The file servers can be configured in a Failover Cluster just as the Hyper-V to provide fault tolerance and high availability as shown below.
To complete the design, additional network switches should be implemented and additional storage arrays can be connected to file server cluster as required. If you want to learn more about this deployment option and the others available you can check out the full Reference Architecture for Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft VDI and vWorkspace.
With all of that said, my first reference architecture at Dell is in the bag. I'll spare myself the humiliation of divulging the internal project name as it is truly embarrassing. That and I suspect there are some corporate no-no's involved with doing so. One of the most interesting things, I think, about this reference architecture is the personal or persistent virtual desktop configuration. This is mostly because the native data deduplication capabilities built into Windows Server 2012 R2 that I wrote about previously. In short, the way this is implemented is by introducing Microsoft Scale Out File Servers between the Hyper-V host and the back end shared storage. For this reference architecture we utilized the Dell PowerEdge R720 servers for the files servers and the Dell EqualLogic PS6100XS hybrid storage array. Below is a representation of each of the reference architecture solution layers.
The file servers can be configured in a Failover Cluster just as the Hyper-V to provide fault tolerance and high availability as shown below.
To complete the design, additional network switches should be implemented and additional storage arrays can be connected to file server cluster as required. If you want to learn more about this deployment option and the others available you can check out the full Reference Architecture for Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft VDI and vWorkspace.
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