Phase III - Design and Deploy

Now that you have proved that the solution works within your environment, you can take all the findings from both the assessment and the pilot phases, and start to build out a design for production.

In this section, we are going to cover the main considerations for a successful design, and discuss the general rules of thumb and best practices and then move on to the specifics of sizing the storage requirement, scalability, availability, and also how to architect the solution when deployed as part of a VMware Horizon View virtual desktop solution.

Before we get into the specific areas we are going to touch on, let's look at a couple of best practices when it comes to the App Volumes server and the AppStacks themselves.

App Volumes Manager deployment best practice

In this book, we are using a single App Volumes Manager that is ideal for a test environment during the proof of concept and pilot stages of a project. However, when it comes to a production deployment...