2
Table of Contents
2 Author
2 About this eBook
3 Introduction
4 EUC Deployment Architectures
Traditional On-Prem Broker
Cloud Broker
Hybrid Deployments
Use cases
9 Architectural Principles
Entry Point
Scalability
Performance
Capacity
Monitoring
14 Building Blocks
Hypervisors
17 Infrastructure Alternatives
Build Your Own
Converged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
23 Storage Requirements
26 Storage Types
Legacy Tiered Architectures
All-Flash
Hybrid Flash
28 GPUs
Dedicated GPU
Shared GPU
Grid Licensing
30 File Services
Nutanix File Services
31 Compute Sizing
Physical Memory
CPU clock speed calculation
CPU ratios
35 Virtualization Cluster Design
Author
Brian Suhr has over two decades of IT experience in
enterprise infrastructure design, implementation, and
administration. He has provided architectural and
engineering expertise in a variety of virtualization,
data center, and cloud-based engagements while
working with high performance technical teams on
global-reaching environments. As an independent
author of the DataCenterZombie and VirtualizeTips
blogs, Brian focuses on creating content that revolves
around virtualization, automation, infrastructure, and
evangelizing products and services that benefit the
technology community. Find Brian on Twitter: @bsuhr
About this eBook
This book is focused on infrastructure design for VDI
and End User Computing (EUC) environments. The
content within this book has been adapted from the
infrastructure-focused chapter of Architecting and
Designing End User Computing Solutions (available
on Amazon).
