Hello!
VMWare noob here, I'm in a weird situation where I'm doing a bunch of comparative performance testing of software in virtual environments. This means I have to set up VDI in VMWare and run some test cases so I can compare performance against the same tests in Hyper-V VDI. A coworker is helping me do some research on VMWare so I can transition from Hyper-V to VMWare as quickly as possible as soon as testing is complete, but what he's found so far seems unnecessarily complicated so I wanted to ask the community if we're headed in the wrong direction before we start trying to deploy all this.
What I have:
3 physical servers. Each needs to host 17 virtual machines.
My requirements:
power on a set number of virtual machines on each server so I have an equal number of VMs running on each server(7, 14, and 17 concurrent machines)
persistent and non-persistent machines
domain joined machines
What I have so far:
Horizon View appears to be the VMWare tool for this. I've found this walkthrough (https://www.virtuallyboring.com/vmware-horizon-view-7-deployment-installation/ ) that appears to be an equivalent environment to my Hyper-V test environment. My coworker thinks that we will also need to install EXSI OS on one of the servers or another computer in our office, and also vSphere to help manage....things.
What I want:
To know the minimum amount of physical server hardware I need to deploy Horizon View for 17VMs x 3Servers that will never have end users. Also to know if we actually have to partition our servers and install EXSI and VSphere on them. I have more testing to do on Citrix later and then another round on Hyper-V so I really don't want to uninstall Server 2016, partition the drives, install various other operating systems, or anything else that will be difficult or time consuming to undo for the rest of my testing, unless it is actually necessary!
I know I'm asking a lot of very specific questions for a weird deployment scenario, but that's where my life is these days :smileygrin: if anyone can help point me in the right direction and help me learn about what these tools need I would be incredibly appreciative!
thank you,
Lucas