Hello, everyone~
Our View environment is as follows:
View Agent: 6.2.6
View Client : 4.5 (mainly)
Guest Client Windows : Windows 10 2016 LTSB (14393.2396)
Pool type : Floating(Stateless)
Server : Dell Blade PowerEdge M630
Storage : NETAPP_AFF8080EX (Unified type servicing SAN Volumes for VMs and NAS for Persona Repository via 10G ethernet altogether)
We have operated "Persona Management" to provide minimum conveniences such as bookmark on IE and private certificate working on Windows uniquely in Korea with stateless VMs.
Thus, the folder size of each individual is tiny, less than 5 MB. However, the total number of the profile folders (I mean users) is huge, about 7,000.
Before we deployed, we studied the best practice guide, VMware-View-Persona-Management-Deployment-Guide.pdf provided by VMware as always.
According to the System Requirements and Recommended Hardware section of the document on page 5, it reads
Persona Management has no system requirements beyond those for VMware View itself. However, VMware
recommends particular configurations for servers, network speed, and file server memory to provide you with
the best performance for Persona Management of user profiles.
VMware recommends the following infrastructure for a View implementation with Persona Management
enabled:
• Servers: One or more file servers, each one storing profiles for approximately 1000 users. If a virtual machine
is used as a file server, the volume storing the profiles works optimally if striped across four virtual disks, each
with its own SCSI controller. A file server on a physical system works best in a similar configuration. Consult
your SCSI controller documentation regarding the supported maximum number of concurrent commands.
• Network speed: At least 1Gbps between the desktops and the file servers.
• RAM on each file server: 8GB
Your own results may vary, depending upon:
• Your storage capability
• Your network speed and latency
• Number of users
• The frequency that users access data in the user profiles
• Storage
• IOPS
We asked the Netapp storage technician to provide 11 NAS repositories (or share mounting points) based on our 11 desktop pools accordingly to scatter the traffic, which was an effort to make sure to meet the recommendation even though we had only one NetApp storage with 2 storage controller units, a high end all flash unified product until a couple of years ago.
My first question is whether it will be okay to build a huge repository to service all the 7,000 users sufficiently rather than the smaller repositories broken down as it is now because the number and size of synced files are seemingly small. In addition, the users are likely to move from one pool to another in some cases, which means we have to migrate the profile folders to the designated repository as well manually.
Secondly, we are experiencing frequent log-in problems by random users after we switched from windows 7 64 bit sp1 to Windows 10 32 bit for some reasons. I believe we did not experience the same problems back then. The GSS said Persona with View 6 does not support windows 10 officially, however, I am not sure of it because the KB mentions the stand-alone persona, not the one included in view agent itself and view 6.2.x release notes keep mentioning Windows 10 along with Windows 10. Actually, it works in general, but does not work randomly and frequently with a few users, roughly tens out of thousands. It is a headache!! That is why we are considering to return to the old Windows 7.
I attach the setting of persona management screenshot here for your information.
Any kinds of advices will appreicated. Thanks~