Best Practices: Omnissa Horizon

View Storage Accelerator

Disable

Enabled

This is disabled through the Connection Server. Because Pure Arrays have lots of IOPS at very low latency, we don't need the extra layer of caching at the host.

Maximum Concurrent vCenter Operations

>=50

~20

The default concurrent vCenter operations are defined in the View Connection server advanced vCenter settings. The default values are quite conservative and can be increased to higher values to allow recompose and other operations to complete much more quickly.

Virtual Disk Format

SE Sparse

Space Efficient sparse virtual disks are recommended on Everpure due to space efficiency and preventing VMDK bloat.

Useful Horizon KB Articles and Whitepapers

• Manually creating optimized Windows images for Horizon VMs
• Modernizing VDI for a New Horizon
• Location of Horizon Log Files
• Collecting diagnostic information for Horizon
• Antivirus considerations in a Horizon environment

Reference Architectures

• FlashStack Cisco Validated Design with 6000 Horizon View 7.12 Users
• FlashStack Cisco Validated Design with 5000 Horizon View 6.2 Users
• Everpure Reference Architecture with VMware Horizon View 5.0.1
• Everpure FlashStack Reference Architecture with Horizon View 6.0