Prepare the Infrastructure for VDI
Applies To: Windows 8.1
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments in education may require preparation steps depending on network, storage, or client device components.
Before you deploy VDI in your institution, you must prepare the appropriate infrastructure. Table 4 lists the VDI infrastructure components and provides an overview of the preparation that may be necessary for each component. In some instances, no infrastructure remediation may be necessary.
Table 4. VDI Infrastructure Components and Preparation Steps
Component | Preparation Steps |
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Network |
The following factors affect whether the network infrastructure is able to support the VDI session traffic between VDI clients and the VDI servers:
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Storage |
The primary consideration for planning storage are:
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Client Devices |
Each user who accesses the VDI infrastructure requires a device that supports the appropriate clients. Users who will access:
Some of these devices can be software-based clients (such as the Remote Desktop Client in Windows operating systems or apps for other operating systems) or hardware-based clients (such as RemoteFX devices, thin clients, or zero clients). For more information about the client devices that can be used in these VDI solutions, see the Connect Users to VDI Sessions section of this guide. |
You can approximate the actual requirements for each component in Table 4 by verifying the resource requirements in a lab environment. For example, you could approximate the network bandwidth requirement by configuring a test environment and measuring the network traffic a limited number of VDI sessions performing typical tasks generate. Then, you could extrapolate the actual requirement by multiplying the measured network traffic in the lab by the number of simultaneous VDI sessions.