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Dell Wyse Datacenter Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and XenDesktop 2/21/2014 Phase 6 Version 1.1 THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR IN

7 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 3.2 Network Configuration The VRTX chassis can be configured

8 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Physical cabling representation: Logical representation: 3.3

9 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Care has been taken to optimize the server platform for Citri

10 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Guidance:  10Gb uplinks to a core or distribution switch a

11 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop ThinOS, for environments in which security is critical—there’s

12 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop AMD 1.65 GHz processor and a revolutionary unified engine for

13 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 3.5.9 Dell Venue 11 Pro Meet the ultimate in productivity, c

14 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 4 Software Components 4.1 Citrix XenDesktop The solution i

15 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop ● Receiver ― Installed on user devices, Citrix Receiver prov

16 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Difference vDisk is where all the writes and changes to the de

ii Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Contents 1 Introduction ...

17 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 4.1.3 Citrix Profile Manager Citrix Profile Management is a

18 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop mechanism to provide a front-end “mask” to the back-end server

19 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop all additional XenDesktop components be installed in a distrib

20 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Global Server Load Balancing GSLB is an industry standard fu

21 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Citrix NetScaler are added to the Dell Wyse Datacent

22 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop For more information please visit: Link

23 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 5 Solution Architecture for XenDesktop 7 5.1 Hyper-V 5.1.1

24 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop User Type vCPU Startup RAM (GB) Dynamic Memory NIC OS + Data v

25 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Please refer to this Citrix document for more information: L

26 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Per host Hyper-V switch/ teaming configuration: 5.1.3.1 V

iii Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 5.2.1 Compute + Management Server Infrastructure ...

27 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 5.2 vSphere 5.2.1 Compute + Management Server Infrastructu

28 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 5.2.1.1 Management High Availability XenDesktop and vCenter

29 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop VRTX solution volume configuration: Volumes Size (GB) RAID Di

30 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 5.2.3.1 Virtual Networking HA As discussed in section 3.2.1

31 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 5.3 XenDesktop on VRTX Communication Flow Windows Master

32 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6 Solution Performance and Testing For a full explanation

33 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6.1.3 VMware vCenter VMware vCenter has been used for VMwa

34 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop repeated for each launcher host. Sequential launching is reco

35 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6.2.2 Dell Wyse Datacenter Workloads and Profiles It’s impor

36 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop  For multi-host / full solution testing, users are logged in

1 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 1 Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this document This document d

37 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop In the following table, the Tier 1 IOPS data is meas

38 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6.3.2.1 Standard User Workload (300 Users, 2 hosts) These gr

39 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6.3.3 Hyper-V Summary This validation was performed for XenD

40 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6.3.3.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Test Results Validati

41 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Tier2 Latency appears to have been driven by activity on the f

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45 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6.3.4.2 MCS Enhanced User Workload (440 users) These graphs

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2 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 2 Solution Architecture Overview 2.1 Introduction The Dell

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48 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 6.3.4.3 MCS Professional User Workload (340 users) These gra

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50 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop About the Authors Peter Fine is the Sr. Principal Solutions

3 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop In the Shared Tier 1 solution model for the ROBO use case, the

4 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop pooled VDI users in an incredibly efficient, small, and cost ef

5 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 3 Hardware Components 3.1 PowerEdge VRTX PowerEdge VRTX b

6 Dell Wyse Datacenter – Reference Architecture for Dell VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop Two “cluster in a box” options for remote/branch office deploy