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Instant Clones

Hi

Am new to Horizon, Whats the recommended settings on vcenter if we use instant clones. If we have 2 physical hosts, on vcenter is it best to have one Datacenter and 2 clusters (one cluster to one host) or one datacenter and one cluster with both hosts connected to one cluster. (This is for two labs in the same building, different levels)

vJoeG
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Have a look and save this document

https://techzone.vmware.com/resource/vmware-workspace-one-and-vmware-horizon-7-enterprise-edition-pr...

This is the full, validated, reference architecture for Horizon and Workspace ONE. Everything you could possibly want to know about the technology.

Do you have more hosts than just the two? In a production environment, the recommendation would be to have one datacenter and two clusters. One for management ie. Connection servers, Security servers, UAG, SQL, App Volumes. And then a second cluster where the VDI instant clones would be provisioned.

I hope that helps.

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Joe Graziano
Senior Solution Engineer - EUC Federal
VCP7-DTM, VCP6-DM, VCP6-DCV
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jgraziano@vmware.com
vols2
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thanks for the info, Just another question, on the physical server we created two partitions, raid 1 and raid 10. RAID 1 partition to store OS and RAID 10 partition for the the VMs, is this correct or not, appreciate information on this

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vJoeG
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The hosts where you have ESXi installed?

That should be fine for a POC/Lab and yes that's a good idea to have the VM's separate from the OS

When you are looking to go into something bigger/production you might want to look as shared storage so all hosts can see the LUNS and use them. This will allow you to expand to more hosts and not have any host be a single point of failure.

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Joe Graziano
Senior Solution Engineer - EUC Federal
VCP7-DTM, VCP6-DM, VCP6-DCV
vExpert, vExpertPro
jgraziano@vmware.com
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