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Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 1 Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 v1.5

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 10 2.4 Dell DVS 10-Seat Trial Kit To get up and running as quickly as possible with pool

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 100 F.6 Collection Deployment Once the RDVH Roles have been installed and Gold Image shu

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 101 3. Specify the Pooled virtual desktop and to automatically create and manage the virt

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 102 5. Select the virtual desktop settings. 6. Select the Time Zone & Active Dire

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 103 7. Specify the user group, the number of desktops and the naming convention for the R

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 104 9. Specify the storage location on the RDVH host, in this example the d:\Virtual Mach

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 105 11. Confirm the selections for the collection. 12. Once the virtual desktop is exp

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 106 13. The RDVH collection has been created successfully. 4

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 107 F.7 Combined RDSH / RDVH The combined RDSH/RDVH Collections will run on the same Com

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 108 3. Select the deployment type and since an RDS Deployment already exists the RD Conne

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 109 5. Overview of the Roles that are to be installed. 6. The Connection Broker Server

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 11 2.6 Local Tier 1 – Combined As a logical entry point to the distributed RDS solution

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 110 7. The Web Access Server is also already assigned so select next to continue. 8. Sp

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 111 9. Confirm the selections and select the option to restart the destination severs. 1

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 112 11. Open Server Manager/Remote Desktop Services and select create session collection.

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 113 13. Select the RD Session Hosts for this collection. 14. Specify the user group yo

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 114 15. Specify the location for the User Profile Disks. The location cannot be the same

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 115 17. The collection has completed successfully. 18. The combined collections have b

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 116 F.8 Configuration for High Availability Each layer in the solution architecture can

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 117 Witness Disk Quorum 1 - 500MB 50 Tier 2 Hyper-V Cluster Quorum NTFS Yes User Data - 20

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 118 2. Select to add management tools. 3. Confirm the installation selections and sele

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 119 4. Once the feature has been installed on Nodes, open Server Manager and select Failo

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 12 2.7 Local Tier 1 – Base In the base distributed architecture the RDVH or RD

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 120 6. Add both Servers to the Cluster. 7. The next Step it to Validate the Cluster Co

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 121 8. Once the Validation has been completed, the Cluster Name and IP address need to be

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 122 11. Attached is a snapshot of the Cluster configuration.

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 123 7 About the Authors Peter Fine is the Principal Engineering Architect in the Deskt

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 13 2.7.1 Fully Expanded The fully expanded architecture provides linear upward scale f

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 14 2.7.2 High Availability High availability (HA) is currently offered to prote

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 15 2.7.3 Solution Density Summary Design Scale Management Hosts Compute Hosts RDSH Sess

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 16 be layer 2/ switched locally, with all layer 3/ routable VLANs trunked from a core or d

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 17 3 Hardware Components 3.1 Network When developing solutions for a customer it is cr

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 18 3.1.1 Force10 S55 (ToR Switch) Model Features Options Uses Force10 S55 44 x BaseT (10

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 19 Please reference the following Force10 whitepaper for specifics on stacking best pract

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 2 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ...

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 20 Local Tier 1 Management Host – PowerEdge R720 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 Processor (2.

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 21 For more information on the Dell Equallogic PS4100E and other networked stor

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 22 4 Dell Wyse End Points 4.1 Display Choices for Dell Wyse Endpoints 4.2 Dell Wyse

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 23 updates, and future-proof connectivity to accommodate a wide variety of perip

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 24 With Microsoft Windows Embedded Device Manager connectivity, one can leverage

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 25 5 Solution Architecture for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services 5.1 5.1 Overview This

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 26 5.2 Compute Server Infrastructure The Compute host configuration varies slightly as t

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 27 Management role requirements for the base solution are summarized below. Data disks sh

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 28 5.4.2 Shared Tier 2 Tier 2 is shared iSCSI storage used to host the Managem

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 29 and AD-integrated namespace. Microsoft best practices and organizational requirements s

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 3 6.2 Hyper-V Networking (Local Tier 1) ...

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 30 6 Hyper-V Configuration The Local Tier 1 solution will be built upon the Server

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 31 6.2 Hyper-V Networking (Local Tier 1) The network configuration in this model

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 32 The Management hosts have a slightly different configuration since they will additiona

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 33 6.3 Solution High Availability Each layer in the solution architecture can

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 34 To implement HA for the Management layer, we will also add an additional host but will

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 35 Volumes Host Size (GB) RAID Storage Array Purpose File System CSV SQL TempDB Data 2 5 5

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 36 6.4 Application Virtualization Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) provi

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 37 6.6 RDS 2012 Data Flow 6.7 Summary The Dell Windows Server 2012 RDS solution

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 38 - Dell DVS 10-Seat Trial Kit Appendix A The 10 User POC bundle was purpose-built to p

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 39 Based on the server hardware configuration, 10 users will experience excellent perfor

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 4 F.3.1 RDSH Role Installation and Setup ...

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 40 Since the RDCB and Licensing roles will be enabled within the Hyper-V parent partition,

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 41 Pooled VDI Performance Analysis Appendix B Results Performance analysis of the above

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 42 B.2 Task Worker (Basic Workload) The basic workload runs a small number of applicatio

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 43 B.2.3 Memory Resource Utilization Performance Analysis Results The memory graph sh

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 44 B.2.4 Disk IO Resource Utilization Performance Analysis Results The Disk IO and

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 45 B.2.6 End-User Experience Performance Analysis Results The Stratusphere UX scatter

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 46 Reader, Bullzip PDF printer and 7-zip file compression software. Relative to

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 47 B.3.3 Memory Resource Utilization Performance Analysis Results The memory graph show

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 48 B.3.5 Network Resource Utilization Performance Analysis Results Network resource u

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Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 5 Review 1/22/2013 1.5 – Update 10 User bundle info, formatting fixes Peter Fine

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 50 Remote Desktop Session Performance Appendix C Analysis Results The performance of the

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 51 A plot of the “Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor % Total Run Time” CPU

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 52 C.2 Task Worker (Basic Workload) C.2.1 Configuration Summary The table shown below

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 53 The table shown below shows sustained CPU utilization level at peak load for each of th

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 54 RDSH VM1 21 RDSH VM2 24 RDSH VM3 26 RDSH VM4 25 C.2.4 Disk IO Resource Utilization P

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 55 The relevant Hyper-V partition latency information is shown below, it can be seen that

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 56 C.3 Knowledge Worker (Standard Workload) C.3.1 Configuration Summary The table show

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 57 VMs; this is a level that represents an ideal combination of maximizing resource utiliz

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 58 RDSH VM2 23 RDSH VM3 21 RDSH VM4 28 C.3.4 Disk IO Resource Utilization Performance A

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 59 The table shown below shows sustained latency during performance analysis for each o

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 6 1 Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this document This document describes: 1. Dell DVS Re

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 60 Combined RDVH and RDSH on Single Appendix D Host Performance analysis was also c

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 61 Rack Server Installation and Setup Appendix E The requirement for this solution is to

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 62 3. Select Processor Settings. 4. Select the option to enable the Logical Process

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 63 Machines which are configured with the RDSH Role, 10 x 146GB SAS drives are configured

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 64 3. Press F2 to create a new Virtual Disk. 4. Select Raid 1 as the Raid Level, select

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 65 5. On the VD Management screen, select F2 while highlighting the new Virtual Disk and

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 66 7. The initialization is complete and the Array is ready for the installation of the O

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 67 2. Select Raid 10 as the Raid option and select the 10 disks. This will create the VD

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 68 4. On the main VD management screen, highlight the new VD and select F2, initializatio

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 69 The Server Raid configuration details are covered in the previous section (3.3) but for

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 7 1.3 Scope Relative to delivering the virtual desktop environment, the objectives of th

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 70 ` 4. Assign the iSCSI access, in this example the iqn for the management host is ad

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 71 6. The volume has been created and is online. 7. Follow the same steps for

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 72 E.1 Cabling Diagram

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 73 Solution Software Configuration Appendix F F.1 Software Inventory This solution is

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 74 2. Select the Server that Hyper-V is to be installed on. 3. Select the Hyper-V Role

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 75 4. Once Role is selected accept add Feature options and select Include management tool

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 76 6. Select the Network Interface to be assigned to the Virtual Switch 7. Select Auth

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 77 8. Select your location for the default Virtual Hard Disks and VM Configuration files.

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 78 The Server will reboot once the Role installation has been completed and when the Serve

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 79 1. Add Servers to Connection Broker VM (shwk-mgmt-rdcb), open Server Manager and right

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 8 2 Solution Architecture Overview 2.1 Physical Architecture Overview The core arch

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 80 3. Confirm that all Servers needed have been added. 4. Check All Servers option in

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 81 5. The next Step is to install the RDSH Roles, select the add roles and features optio

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 82 7. Select Standard Deployment. 8. Select Session-based desktop deployment

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 83 9. Select next on the Review role Services option ( this window just confirms the role

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 84 11. Select the Web Access Virtual machine. 12. Select your RDSH Hosts.

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 85 13. Confirm that the configuration for the Roles and select the restart the destinatio

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 86 F.3.3 Collection Deployment Once the RDSH Roles have been installed and the Virtual M

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 87 3. Enter the collection name and give a description for the collection. 4. Specif

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 88 5. Specify the Active Directory user group that you want to have access to the Collect

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 89 7. Confirm the Collection Details and select create to continue. 8. Select Close

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 9 2.3 Local Tier 1 – Solution Layers Only a single high performance Force10 S55 48

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 90 9. Select RDSH Collection, select the task option and edit properties. 10. The pro

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 91 11. Select the Load balancing option and in this example we have changed the default s

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 92 F.4 RDVH Role Installation and Setup The RDVH Role installation and setup is required

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 93 2. Select Remote Desktop Service Installation. 3. Select Standard Deployment.

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 94 4. Select Virtual machine-based desktop deployment. 5. The next step shows the Role

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 95 6. Select the Server to install the RD Connection Broker role service. 7. Select th

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 96 8. Select the Server to install the RDVH role service. 9. Confirm the Selection and

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 97 F.5 Gold Image Installation and Setup This section of the document describes the addi

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 98 3. Confirm that you want to complete the upgrade. 4. Once the installation is compl

Dell DVS Sourcebook for Windows Server 2012 Page 99 5. The next step is to run sysprep on the Gold Image, open Windows Explorer and point