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VMware Rapid Desktop Program (RDP), VMware Horizon View 5.3,

VMware vSphere 5.x, HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server, HUAWEI

OceanStor S5500T Storage System

HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution Reference Architecture with VMware Horizon View 5.3

HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution with VMware Horizon View 5.3

Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 0

Table of Contents

1 Solution Highlights ...................................................................................................................... 1

1.1 Single Supplier ............................................................................................................................................. 1

1.2 Outstanding Performance and High Scalability ................................................................................... 1

1.3 High Availability .......................................................................................................................................... 1

1.4 Quick Deployment ....................................................................................................................................... 2

2 VMware Horizon View 5.3 Overview ....................................................................................... 3

2.1 Introduction To VMware Horizon View 5.3 ............................................................................................ 3

2.2 VMware Horizon View 5.3 Infrastructure .............................................................................................. 3

2.3 Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure ..................................................................................... 4

3 Reference Architrecture .............................................................................................................. 6

3.1 Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform ......................................................................................... 6

3.2 Server Architecture ..................................................................................................................................... 9

3.3 Storage Architecture ................................................................................................................................. 12

3.4 Solution Validation .................................................................................................................................... 17

4 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 22



1 Solution Highlights

The VMware Horizon View Rapid Desktop Program provides reference

architecture for building VMware virtual desktops on each organization’s unique

terms. Each View RDP solution helps organizations implement VMware Horizon

View virtual desktop environment with increased ease and confidence. Among the

benefits of the VMware Horizon View Rapid Desktop Program are faster

deployment, reduced risk, and a lower cost of ownership.

1.1 Single Supplier

Devices including blade server, 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.

1.2 Outstanding Performance and High Scalability

VMware Horizon View VDI solution based on HUAWEI platform can supply up

to 300 Windows 7 desktops on one OceanStor S5500T with 24 pieces of 2.5’ SAS

HDDs and six 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 1200 desktops with 2 E6000H

servers and only one OceanStor S5500T with 96 pieces of 2.5 inch SAS disks.

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 server 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 expansion.

1.3 High Availability

Due to the redundant architecture of HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server and

Oceanstor S5500T storage system, it is easy to implement high availability.



For each HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade server, two 8Gpbs FC and 1GBps

Ethernet adapters are deployed for redundancy.

For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, two NX220 8Gbps FC switch

modules and NX230 10Gbps ethernet switch modules are deployed for

redundancy.

For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, six power supply modules are

configured for electronic 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.

1.4 Quick Deployment

Validated/Proven VMware Horizon View solution by HUAWEI Storage Solution

Team, HUAWEI VMware Horizon View VDI solution could be deployed much

faster with lower investment risk and increased confidence.



2 VMware Horizon View 5.3 Overview

2.1 Introduction To VMware Horizon View 5.3

VMware Horizon View 5.3 is a desktop virtualization solution that simplifies IT

manageability and control while delivering the highest fidelity end-user

experience across devices and networks. The VMware Horizon View 5.3 solution

helps IT organization automate desktop and application management, reduce

costs, and increase data security through centralization of the desktop

environment. This centralization results in greater end-user freedom and

increased control for IT organizations. By encapsulating the operating systems,

applications, and user data into isolated layers, IT organizations can deliver a

modern desktop. It can then deliver dynamic, elastic desktop cloud services such

as applications, unified communications and 3D graphics for real-world

productivity and greater business agility.

Unlike other desktop virtualization products, VMware Horizon View 5.3 is built

on and tightly integrated with vSphere, the industry leading virtualization

platform, allowing customers to extend the value of VMware infrastructure and

its enterprise-class features such as high availability, disaster recovery and

business continuity.

VMware Horizon View 5.3 creates a modern, user-centric approach to computing

that maximizes end user freedom and optimizes IT control.

VMware Horizon View 5 allows IT to simplify and automate the management of

thousands of desktops and to securely deliver desktop as a service to users from a

central location with levels of availability and reliability unmatched by

traditional PCs. By delivering secure access to applications and data to any

device, when and where the user needs it, VMware Horizon View 5.3 provides

end users with the highest levels of mobility and flexibility.

2.2 VMware Horizon View 5.3 Infrastructure

The VMware Horizon View 5.3 inftastructure contains a series of components,

including:

VMware vSphere 5.x including ESXi 5.x , VMware vCenter 5.x and vSphere

Client 5.x;

VMware Horizon View Composer 5.3.0;



VMware Horizon View Connection/Replica/Security Server 5.3.0;

VMware Horizon View Agent 5.3.0;

VMware Horizon View Client 5.3.0;

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

DHCP;

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2;

The detailed infrastructure architecture of VMware Horizon View is shown as

follow.

Figure 2-1 VMware Horizon View Infrastracture Architecture

2.3 Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure

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

including:

Boot Storm

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.

Login Storm

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

Inftastructure which bring defficulties for deploying and manage 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.

User Workload Applications

During steady state, about ten random write IOPS would be caused for each

virtual desktop, which would also cause high pressure for storage system.



3 Reference Architrecture

3.1 Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform

The detailed solution infrastructure is provided as following.

Figure 3-1 HUAWEI VMware View 5.3 VDI Solution Infrastracture

In this solution, one HUAWEI Tecal E6000 blade server chassis and six

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 shown as follows.

3.1.1 Server configuration

The detailed information for HUAWEI E6000H blade chassis and BH622 V2

blade servers used in the HUAWEI VMware Horizon View VDI solution is shown



in Table 4-1 and Table 4-2.

Table 3-1 Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade Server Chassis

Hardware Description

HUAWEI Tecal

E6000H Blade

Chassis

6 * HUAWEI BH622 V2 blade server

2 * HUAWEI NX220 8Gbps FC switch module

2 * HUAWEI NX230 10Gbps Ethernet switch module

2 * BMC management module

6 * power supply module

9 * thermal fans

Table 3-2 Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade Server


HUAWEI Tecal

BH622 V2 Blade

Server

CPU:

2 * Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series with 8 cores and Hyper-Threading

technology, 32 physic 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

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 View VDI solution is shown in Table 4-3.

Table 3-3 Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Rack Server




HUAWEI Tecal

RH2288 V2 Rack

Server

CPU:

2 * Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series with 8 cores and Hyper-Threading

technology, 32 physic cores in total

Memory:

8 * 16 GB or 16 * 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 ISP2532-based 8Gbps FC adapter (optional)

3.1.2 Storage Configuration

In this solution, one OceanStor S5500T storage system with 24 pieces of 2.5 inch

SAS HDDS is deployed. The detailed configuration is shown as follow.

Table 3-4 Detailed Information for HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System


HUAWEI

OceanStor

S5500T Storage

System

2 * controller

CPU:

1 * Intel CPU with 4 cores for each controller

Memory:

8 GB or 16 GB DDRIII

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

3.1.3 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 shown as follow.

Figure 3-2 SAN Storage Network Configuration

3.2 Server Architecture

3.2.1 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.



Figure 3-3 HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server Overview

Feature 1 --- Outstanding Performance Thanks to Optimized Architecture

Provides 8 U 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.

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 Thanks to Intelligent Platform

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-series-blade-

server/hw-201734.htm

3.2.2 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.

Figure 3-4 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/e-series-blade-server/hw-201734.htm

http://enterprise.huawei.com/en/products/itapp/server/e-series-blade-server/hw-201734.htm



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servers/hw-124935.htm

3.3 Storage Architecture

3.3.1 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.

Figure 3-5 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.

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Figure 3-6 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, shown as follow.

Figure 3-7 HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Backplane

The interfaces on controller of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Unified Storage

System are shown as follow.

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Figure 3-8 Interfaces on HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage Contrllers

3.3.2 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.

For HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T storage system, with HUAWEI SmartTier

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.



Figure 3-9 SmartTier Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System

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 shown as following.

Step 1. Connect to ESXi host using SSH client.

Step 2. 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, shown as follow.

Figure 3-10 Smart Thin Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System

Feature 6 --- Volume Snapshots

The volume snapshots feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T series storage

system is shown as follow.



Figure 3-11 Snapshots Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System

Using Snapshots feature on HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T storage system, it is

easy to implement LUN backup and recovery for Specific point-in-time.

3.4 Solution Validation

3.4.1 Validation Tool --- VMware ViewPlanner

VMware View Planner 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.

View Planner 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 this validation is 3.0.0.

The following picture shows the test model of VMware View Planner. View

Planner uses the application controller to push virtual desktops to simulate the

real-world users’ applications.



Figure 3-12 Test Model for VMware View Planner

View Planner 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 2.1 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

3.4.2 Validation Environment

The detailed information for the solution validation is shown as follows.



Table 3-5 Solution Validation Environment Profile

Profile Value

Number of Virtual Desktop 300

Desktop Operating System Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 32

bit with Server Pack 1

vCPU per Virtual Desktop 1 vCPU

vMemory per Virtual Desktop 2 GB vMemory

VMware vSphere Version 5.5

VMware Horizon View Version 5.3.0

VMware Horizon View Composer 5.3.0

Number of Disk RAID Group 2

Number of HDD per RAID Group 11

RAID Level 5

Number of Hot Spare Disk 2

Hard Disk Type 2.5 inch 900GB 10KRPM SAS Disk

Number of DataStore in ESXi Cluster 2

Number of ESXi Cluster 1

Number of ESXi Server in Cluster for

Desktop Pools

6

Number of Desktop Pool 2

Number of Desktop in Each Pool 150

3.4.3 Validation Result

The VMware Viewplanner 3.0 test result shows as follow.

Test Score



Test Start Time 2014-01-07 12:29:19

Test Status Benchmark scoring requirements (BR) met

Workload Summary

Score

Number of Desktops

Desktops (Failed)

Desktops (Not Run)

Iterations (Total)

Iterations (Scored)

300

300

0

0

5 (BR:=5)

3

Qos Summary

Field Value

GroupA

GroupA Missing Events

95th percentile: 0.64927s (BR: _ 1.0s)

None

Field Value

GroupB

GroupB Missing Events

95th percentile: 3.902668s (BR: _ 6.0s)

None

Application Response Time



4 Conclusion

Proven/Validated by HUAWEI Storage Solution Team, the 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 View VDI solutions with rapid deployment.

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