Hello all,
My company is in the planning stages of implementing VDI into our environment. Our first planned installation is for our off site development Team. of 60 + users. We are debating over a DL 380 option or the Blade Option.
The DL option we are familiar with because we can order QLA4050c iscsi, and nic cards for VM port group and service console. The blade option ( C-class ) we are not familiar with. Out of all of you Guru's who might have the c - class half hight nodes inserted, who knows about Blades with Iscsi hardware intiators connected? Is this possible? Also what kind of switches did you use. Pass through or other?
Does Iscsi support Clusters? Yes - right?
We will be connecting to our Netapp via Iscsi. The netapp has 2 heads with a lot of trays for disk. Each head has four 1.0 Gig ports. Two ports on each head are bound as an aggregate and are connected to one ciso 1.0 gig switch. The other two are connected to a failover cisco 1.0 gig switch.
Does anyone see any issues with running 60+ users connected to the netapp on DL 380 2 socket quad core, iscsi conected to Netapp, Nics connected 1.0 gig network swtich, 32 gig's of memory (C-Class similar option) which are development machines that will connect to the netapp via ISCSI. Could this pose a problem?

Let me know, I am highly interested to ehar what users are doing and are seeing.

Lastly is there a real need for VMware VDI solution if we are using Remote Desktop to connect.
Has anyone tried HP's VDI solution? If so how is it.

Thanks!