HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon 6.0 with View

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VMware Horizon 6.0 with View, VMware vSphere 5.5.x, HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server, HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System, Solid-state disk, SmartTier.

HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution

with VMware Horizon 6.0 with View

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1 Introduction

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2 Solution Highlights

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2.1 Single Supplier ... 4

2.2 Outstanding Performance and High Scalability ... 4

2.3 High Availability ... 5

2.4 Quick Deployment ... 5

3 VMware Horizon 6.0 Overview

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3.1 Introduction To VMware Horizon 6.0 with View ... 6

3.2 VMware Horizon 6.0 with View Infrastructure ... 6

3.3 Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure ... 7

4 Reference Architrecture

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4.1 Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform ... 9

4.2 Server Architecture ... 12

4.3 Storage Architecture ... 14

4.4 Solution Validation ... 19

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1 Introduction

This reference architecture validation solution helps IT customers simplify planning, design and deployment of virtual desktop scenarios on VMware Horizon 6.0 with View platform using Huawei server and storage system. This solution helps IT customers implement virtual desktops with ease and confidence. Using this solution will bring with the following benefits---faster deployment, high availability, high scalability, reduced risk, predictability, and a lower cost of ownership. Additionally, this solution is easy to match different customers’ specific requirements.

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2 Solution Highlights

This validated reference architecture provides an implementation blueprint for the VMware Horizon 6.0 with View VDI solution deployed using the HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server and OceanStor S5500T storage system with SmartTier solid state disks. HUAWEI validation is designed to help organizations achieve high compatibility, outstanding performance, high scalability and fast deployment with a low total cost of ownership and minimal risk.

2.1 Single Supplier

Devices including blade server, Fibre Channel switch, and network switch and storage system are all from HUAWEI, it is much easier to implement high-degree compatibility, get fast services and decrease maintenance expenses.

2.2 Outstanding Performance and High Scalability

VMware Horizon 6.0 with View VDI solution based on HUAWEI platform can supply up to500 Windows 7 desktops using one OceanStor S5500T with 19 pieces of 2.5’ SAS HDDs and 5 pieces of 2.5’ SSDs，ten Tecal BH622 V2 blade servers. With high performance and scalability features of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T storage system and Tecal E6000H blade server, it is easy to scale out up to 1000 desktops with 2 E6000H servers and only one OceanStor S5500T with 38 pieces of 2.5 inch SAS disks and 10 pieces of 2.5’ SSDs.

 HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server, supports up to ten blade servers for each chassis.

 Tecal BH640 V2 blade server with four Intel Xeon E5-4600 CPUs is supported, which means the blade servers can easily be scaled up.  For each OceanStor S5500T storage system, it can be scaled out up to

528 HDDs smoothly, and due to the RAID 2.0+ feature, it is easy to implement storage pool and LUN expansion.

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2.3 High Availability

Thanks to redundant architecture of HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server and Oceanstor S5500T storage system, it is easy to implement high availability.  For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, two NX220 8Gbps FC

switch modules and NX230 10Gbps ethernet switch modules (optional) are deployed for redundancy.

 For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, six power supply modules are configured for electronic redundancy.

 For each HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade server, two 8Gpbs FC and 1GBps Ethernet adapters are deployed for redundancy.

 For each OceanStor S5500T storage system, two active-active controllers are configured for load-balance and controller redundancy.

 Full-exchanged interconnection between servers and storage is adopted in this solution to implement storage path redundancy.

2.4 Quick Deployment

Validated VMware Horizon 6.0 with View solution by HUAWEI Storage Solution Team, HUAWEI VMware Horizon with View VDI solution could be deployed much faster with lower investment risk and increased confidence.

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3 VMware Horizon 6.0 Overview

3.1 Introduction To VMware Horizon 6.0 with View

VMware Horizon 6.0 with View is a desktop virtualization solution that delivers virtual desktop services. It is available as a standalone offering-Horizon 6.0 with View Standard Edition-or as part of the VMware Horizon family in the Advanced and Enterprise editions. Where security and availability are both high priorities, you can use Horizon 6.0 with View to simplify and automate the management of desktops and securely deliver desktops as a service to users from a central location. A single administration console provides granular levels of control, allowing you to customize the end-user experience, access, and personalization to support corporate policy. End users get a familiar, personalized environment that they can access from any number of devices anywhere throughout the enterprise or from remote locations. And as an administrator, you have centralized control, efficiency, and security by having desktop data in the data center.

VMware Horizon 6.0 leverages desktop virtualization with View and builds on these capabilities, allowing IT to deliver virtualized and remoted desktop and applications through a single platform and supports users with access to all their Windows and online resources through one unified workspace. By delivering secure access to applications and data to any device, when and where the user needs it, VMware Horizon 6.0 with View provides end users with the highest levels of mobility and flexibility.

3.2 VMware Horizon 6.0 with View Infrastructure

The VMware Horizon 6.0 with View inftastructure contains a series of components, including:

 VMware vSphere 5.5.x including ESXi 5.5.x , VMware vCenter 5.5.x and vSphere Client 5.5.x;

 View Composer 6.0.0;

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 View Agent 6.0.0;  View Client 6.0.0;

 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64Bit With Active Directory, DNS and DHCP;

 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2;

The detailed infrastructure architecture of VMware Horizon 6.0 with View is showing as follow.

VMware Horizon 6.0 with View.0 Infrastracture Architecture

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3.3 Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure

For Virtual Desktop Inftastructure scenarios, there are lots of challenges, including:

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A boot storm is caused when a large population of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) users boot up which always causes serious pressure for servers and storage system.

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A login storm is caused when a large population of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) users log into their desktop which causes serious pressure for servers and storage system.

Boot storm and login storm are always two huge challenges for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure which bring difficulties for deploying and manage

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virtualization scenarios.

 -virus Scanning Storm

Scheduled anti-virus scanning can cause extremely high pressure for servers and storage system with large scale of random read IOPS.

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During steady state, about ten random write IOPS would be caused for each virtual desktop, which would also cause high pressure for storage system.

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4 Reference Architrecture

4.1 Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform

The detailed solution infrastructure is provided as following.

HUAWEI VMware Horizon 6.0 with View.0 VDI Solution Infrastracture

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In this solution, one HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server chassis and ten HUAWEI BH622 v2 blade servers are used as ESXi hosts for virtual desktop pools.

Two HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 rack servers are used, one for VMware vSphere Center with View Composer, and the other for ESXi host to create virtual Windows Active Directory, DHCP server, DNS server, View Connection Servers , View replica server and View security servers.

Detailed configurations for HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server, Tecal RH2288 V2 rack server and OceanStor S5500T storage system are showing as follows.

Server configuration

The detailed information for HUAWEI E6000H blade chassis and BH622 V2 blade servers used in HUAWEI VMware Horizon 6.0 with View VDI solution is showing in Table 4-1 and Table 4-2.

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Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade Server Chassis

Hardware Description

HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Chassis

 10 * HUAWEI BH622 V2 blade server  2 * HUAWEI NX220 8Gbps FC switch module

 2 * HUAWEI NX230 10Gbps Ethernet switch module (optional)  2 * HUAWEI NX112 1Gbps Ethernet switch module

 2 * BMC management module  6 * power supply module  9 * thermal fans

Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade Server

HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 Blade Server

 CPU:

2 * Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series with HT technology, 32 cores in total  Memory:

12 * 16 GB DDRIII Memory  Hard Disk:

2 * 300 GB 2.5 inch 10K RPM SAS Disk  Ethernet Adapter:

2 * built-in Intel 82580 1Gbps ethernet adapter

2 * built-in Intel 82599EB 10Gbps ethernet adapter(optional)  Fibre Channel Adapter:

2 * built-in Emulex LPe12000 8Gbps FC adapter

The detailed information for HUAWEI RH2288 V2 servers used in the HUAWEI and VMware Horizon 6.0 with View VDI solution is showing in Table 4-3.

Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Rack Server

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HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Rack Server

 CPU:

2 * Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series with HT technology, 32 cores in total  Memory:

8 * 16 GB DDRIII  Hard Disk:

2 * 300 GB 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch SAS Disk, 24 pieces of HDDs supported maximumly

 Ethernet Adapter:

4 * built-in Intel 82580 Gbps Ethernet adapter

2 * external Intel 82599EB 10 Gbps Ethernet adapter (optional)  Fibre Channel Adapter

2 * external Qlogic QLE2562 8Gbps FC adapter (optional)

Storage Configuration

In this solution, one OceanStor S5500T storage system with 19 pieces of 2.5 inch SAS HDDs and 5 pieces 2.5 inch SSDs is deployed. The detailed configuration is showing as follow.

Detailed Information for HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System

HUAWEI

OceanStor S5500T Storage System

 2 * controller ( Active-Active)  Front-end Interface for each controller:

4 * 8Gbps FC interface

4 * 1Gbps iSCSI interface (optional) 2 * 10Gbps iSCSI interface (optional) 4 * 10Gbps Toe interface (optional)  Management Interface:

1 * 1Gbps Ethernet interface for each controller

SAN Storage Network Configuration

In this solution, two 8Gbps fibre channel interfaces on each Tecal BH622 V2 blade server are connected to both NX220 8Gbps fibre channel switch modules, and each NX220 fibre channel switch module is connected to both storage controllers on OceanStor S5500T storage system. The detailed SAN storage network configuration is showing as follow.

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SAN Storage Network Configuration

4.2 Server Architecture

4.2.1 HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server

The E6000H chassis adopts the optimized layout and space design from the E6000 chassis, and uses a high-speed and passive backplane to support 8G FC or 10GE switching, making it an excellent choice for high-density and clustered deployment scenarios.

HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server Overview

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 Feature 1 --- Outstanding Performance

 Provides 8U spaces for 10 blade servers and optimized layout for fans, PSUs, switch modules, and management modules. The architecture meets single-node computing performance and power consumption balance requirements, and maintains an excellent space balance in a fully-configured 42 U cabinet.

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 Supports the BH620 V2, BH621 V2, BH622 V2, and BH640 V2 blade servers with Intel® Xeon® E5 series CPUs to meet low-end, middle-range, and high-end customer requirements.

 Supports up to six 1 Gbps, 10Gbps, FC switch or straight through modules.

 Feature 2 --- High Reliability and Energy-Saving

 Uses a cost-effective AC/DC or DC/DC converter to supply 12 V DC power and achieve a power conversion efficiency of up to 92% to reduce losses from power conversion.

 Uses optimized air ducts, and supports power capping, power alternate hibernation, and intelligent fan speed adjustment to reduce system power consumption and improve heat dissipation efficiency for maximum power consumption management and control.

 Uses N+1 redundant fans and N+N redundant management modules, PSUs, and switch modules; supports load balancing; provides seamless failover; and uses a passive backplane to prevents single point failures and ensure data security.

 Uses carrier-class design, manufacturing process, and components to ensure high reliability

 Feature 3 --- Easy and Efficient Management  Supports hot swap for all FRUs.

 Supports IPMI 2.0 specifications to monitor hardware operations and record and query alarms and logs.

 Supports SOL, KVM over IP, Web UI, and virtual media.

 Supports a variety of protocols including the SNMP v3, SNMP Trap v1, SSL, SSH, RMCP, and RMCP+.Uses Zero Touch-based remote maintenance for startup, shutdown, and reset to reduce O&M costs.

 For more information about HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade

server, please see:

http://enterprise.HUAWEI.com/en/products/itapp/server/e-seri es-blade-server/hw-201734.htm

4.2.2 HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Rack Server

The HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 series (RH2288 V2 for short) is a new-generation 2U 2-socket rack server. Featuring two Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 series processors, the RH2288 V2 provides a memory capacity of 768 GB and a storage capacity of 38 TB, making it an ideal product for critical services and cloud computing.

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HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Series Rack Server

 For more information about HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 series

rack server, please see:

http://enterprise.HUAWEI.com/en/products/itapp/server/rh-seri es-rack-servers/hw-124935.htm

4.3 Storage Architecture

4.3.1 HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System

The storage design for any virtualization-based solution is a critical element that is typically responsible for a large percentage of the solution’s overall cost, performance, and agility.

HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T series unified storage system is a new-generation storage product for mid-range and high-end storage applications. It boasts integration of block-level and file-level data storage. Support for a variety of storage protocols, and GUI-based central storage management. Delivering leading performance, enhanced efficiency, maximized return on investment, and all-in-one solutions, and the S5000T series is ideally applicable to scenarios such as large-database OLTP/OLAP, high-performance computing, digital media, Internet applications, central storage, backup, disaster recovery, and data migration.

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HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Unified Storage System

The internal architecture of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T unified storage system meets the principle of high availability. Full component redundancy prevents single points of failure. Data coffer and file system mirror improve system reliability. The dual Active/Active controller provides interruption-free redundancy to ensure operational reliability and availability. HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System inside architecture

①System enclosure ②Power module ③Fan-BBU module ④Controller module ⑤Disk module

 For more information about HUAWEI S5000T series unified

storage system, please see:

http://enterprise.HUAWEI.com/en/products/itapp/storage/san-product/hw-131886.htm

Each HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System consists of two controllers, redundant power supplies and fans, showing as follow.

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HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Backplane

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The interfaces on controller of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Unified Storage System are showing as follow.

Interfaces on HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage Contrllers

4.3.2 Storage Features for HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T

 Feature 1 --- Outstanding Performance

Storage performance is a complex mix of drive, interface, controller, cache, protocol, SAN, HBA, driver, and operating system considerations. The overall performance of the storage architecture is typically measured in terms of maximum throughput, maximum I/O operations per second (IOPS), and latency or response time. Although each of these performance measurements is important, IOPS and latency are the most relevant to server virtualization. Most modern SANs use a combination of high-speed disks, slower-speed disks, and large memory caches. A storage controller cache can improve performance during burst transfers or when the same data is accessed frequently by storing it in the cache memory, which is typically several orders of magnitude faster than the physical disk I/O. However, it is not a substitute for adequate disk spindles because caches are ineffective during heavy write operations.

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storage feature, it is easy combining solid state disk, traditional SAS and SATA or NL-SAS disk to implement high performance using Smart Tier. Solid state disks producted by HUAWEI can be used for Tier 0 as the high performance layer, SAS disks are used as the performance layer, and the NL-SAS disks are used as capacity layer.

SmartTier Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System

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Using SmartTier feature, hotspot data is migrated from SAS or NL-SAS/SATA disk to solid state disk automatically, which means that the hotspot data would be on the high performance layer and it is easy to implement high IO performance.

 Feature 2 --- Multiple Drive Types Supported

HUWEI OceanStor S5000T series Storage System supports SAS, NL SAS, and SATA, FC and SSD disks, fitting into various scenarios. For high performance it is recommended to choose solid state disk (SSD), for both performance and capacity it is recommended to choose SSD and SAS disks, for capacity NL-SAS and SATA disks are recommended.

 Feature 3 --- Multipathing

In all cases, multipathing should be used. VMware ESXi 5.x supports three native multipathing policies, including Most Recently Used (MRU), Fixed (Fixed) and Round Robin (RR). These multipathing policies apply to VMware's Native Multipathing Path Selection Plugins (PSP).

In this solution, Round Robin is used as the default multipathing policy, and ALUA protocol is used as the default storage interconnection protocol (SATP).

The method for configuring storage interconnection protocol and multipathing policy is showing as following.

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Execute the following commands:

# esxcli storage nmp satp rule add --satp=VMW_SATP_ALUA --vendor="HUAWEI" --description "HUAWEI SAN Storage"

# esxcli storage nmp satp set --default-psp=VMW_PSP_RR --satp VMW_SATP_ALUA

# reboot

 Feature 4 --- Multiple Front-end Interfaces Supported

Multiple front-end interconnection interaces are supported by HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T storage system, including 1Gbps/10Gbps iSCSI, 2/4/8/16Gbps FC, 10Gbps FCoE, 10Gbps Toe, etc.

 Feature 5 --- Thin Provisioning

HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T series Storage System allows on-demand allocation of storage space rather than the traditional method of pre-allocating all storage space at the initial stage. It is more efficient because the amount of resources used is close to the amount of resources allocated. In this way, the initial purchase cost and total cost of ownership are reduced.

The thin provisioning feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage is called SmartThin, showing as follow.

Smart Thin Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System

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 Feature 6 --- Volume Snapshots

The volume snapshots feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T series storage system is showing as follow.

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Snapshots Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System

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Using Snapshots feature on HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T storage system, it is easy to implement LUN backup and recovery for Specific point-in-time.

4.4 Solution Validation

4.4.1 Validation Tool --- VMware ViewPlanner

VMware ViewPlanner is a tool designed to simulate a large scale deployment of virtualized desktop systems and study its effects on an entire virtualized infrastructure. The tool is scalable from a few virtual machines running on one VMware ESX/ESXi host up to hundreds of virtual machines distributed across a cluster of ESX/ESXi hosts.

ViewPlanner assists in the setup and configuration of the testing infrastructure, runs a set of application operations selected to be representative of real-world user applications, and reports data on the latencies of those operations. The version of VMware ViewPlanner used for validating this validation is 3.0.0.

The following picture shows the test model of VMware ViewPlanner. ViewPlanner uses the application controller to push virtual desktops to simulate the real-world users’ applications.

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VMware ViewPlanner Test Model

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ViewPlanner simulates application workloads for various user types, (task workers, knowledge workers, and power users) by running applications typically used in a Windows desktop environment. During the execution of a workload, applications are randomly called to perform common desktop user operations, including open, save, close, minimize and maximize windows; view an HTML page, insert text, insert words and numbers, conduct a slideshow, view a video, send and receive email, and compress files. View Planner uses a patent pending watermark technique to quantify the user experience and measure application latency on a user client/remote machine. ViewPlanner 3.0.0 workloads come from the following applications:

 Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook 2007/2010  Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher

 Document browse  Picture album browse  Mozilla Firefox 7.x or higher  Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.x or higher  Archiving software

 Video playback software  Customized applications

4.4.2 Validation Environment

The detailed configuration information for the solution validation is showing as follows.

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Solution Validation Environment Profile

Profile Value

Number of Virtual Desktop 500

Desktop Operating System Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 64 bit with SP 1 vCPU per Virtual Desktop 1 vCPU

vMemory per Virtual Desktop 1 GB vMemory VMware vSphere Version 5.5.x

VMware Horizon with View Version 6.0.0 VMware Horizon with View Composer 6.0.0

Number of DiskDomain 1

Number of StoragePool 1

RAID Level of StoragePool 5 Number of Disk in DiskDomain 24

Hard Disk Type 5 * 2.5 inch 400GB SSD

19 * 2.5 inch 900GB 10KRPM SAS Disk 2.5 inch 400GB SSD

Number of DataStore in ESXi Cluster 4

Number of ESXi Cluster 1

Number of ESXi Server in Cluster 10

Number of Desktop Pool 4

Number of Desktop in Each Pool 125

4.4.3 Validation Result

The VMware Horizon with Viewplanner 3.0 test result shows as follow.  Test Score

Test Start Time 2014-09-18 05:52:46

Test Status Benchmark scoring requirements (BR) met  Workload Summary

Score 500

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Desktops (Failed) Desktops (Not Run) Iterations (Total) Iterations (Scored) 0 0 5 (BR:=5) 3  Qos Summary Field Value GroupA

GroupA Missing Events

95th percentile: 0.878448s (BR: ≤ 1.0s) None

Field Value

GroupB

GroupB Missing Events

95th percentile: 5.01679s (BR: ≤ 6.0s) None

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5 Conclusion

 _{Validated by HUAWEI Storage Solution Team, using HUAWEI Tecal} E6000H blade server and OceanStor S5500T storage system can easily implement high-compatiblity, high-performance, high-scalability, and low-cost and low-risk VMware Horizon with View VDI solutions with rapid deployment.

HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon 6.0 with View