NetApp All-Flash FAS Solution for VMware Horizon View

VMware Horizon View is an enterprise-class desktop virtualization solution that delivers virtualized or remote desktops and applications to end users through a single platform. Horizon View is a tightly integrated, end-to-end solution built on the industry-leading virtualization platform, VMware vSphere.

Although Horizon View enables levels of availability and agility of desktop services unmatched by traditional PCs, the complexity of deploying and managing thousands of virtual desktops in a VMware environment can be daunting without the right tools. Storage is often the leading cause of end-user performance problems. The NetApp all-flash FAS solution with the FAS8000 platform solves the performance problems commonly found in VDI deployments.

In this reference architecture, NetApp tested VMware Horizon View user and administrator workloads to demonstrate how the NetApp all-flash FAS solution eliminates the most common barriers to virtual desktop adoption.

The testing covered common administrative tasks involved in a typical 4,000-seat virtual desktop environment, in normal and failed-over states. Tasks such as provisioning, booting, and performing refresh and recompose maintenance activities are documented, as well as key metrics, such as: time to complete, storage response, and storage utilization.