With storage vendors paying close attention to virtual desktop infrastructure deployments, array vendor Nimble Storage and consultancy GlassHouse Technologies Inc. recently published reference architectures for configuring virtual desktops with VMware View.
The VDI reference architectures include guidelines for the required computing, server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software and storage infrastructure. The companies tested and validated the VDI systems for simplified and accelerated virtual desktop deployments.
Nimble and GlassHouse include VMware Inc.’s vSphere 5.1 server virtualization software and VMware View 5.1 virtual desktop solution in their reference architectures, as well as Cisco’s Unified Computing Platform (UCS) B230 M2 blade servers. Each blade has two Intel 2.4 GHz Xeon processors, 10 cores, 256 GB of RAM, dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections and the Cisco UCS Fabric interconnect….
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