Omnissa Horizon 8 VDI on Dell PowerFlex

February 4, 2025

Omnissa Horizon 8 provides IT teams with a modern, streamlined approach to deliver, protect, and manage Windows and Linux virtual desktops and published applications. It allows end users to work anytime and anywhere, on any device.

This white paper discusses the deployment of Horizon 8 on a two-layer PowerFlex system. It covers the performance characterization and analysis of Horizon using Login Enterprise Platform from Login VSI, an industry standard performance benchmarking tool, to demonstrate the effortless scalability offered by PowerFlex.

This white paper also provides details about best practices for deploying Horizon 8 on PowerFlex for a high-quality user experience.

Omnissa Horizon 8 provides IT teams with a modern, streamlined approach to deliver, protect, and manage virtual desktops. Features such as instant cloning and virtual applications make managing the environment a seamless process for IT teams. The performance characterization and analysis of Omnissa Horizon 8 hosted on Dell PowerFlex demonstrates the ability of the solution architecture to support large-scale VDI deployments. End-point users can perform resource intense tasks while simultaneously enjoying a high-quality end user experience. Also, ESXi hosts added to the cluster linearly increased the provisioning capabilities of the Omnissa Horizon instant clone desktop pool. The underlying PowerFlex storage can handle the additional storage requirements with minimal latency.

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