A company wants their Nutanix VDI environment to have these characteristics: - 3000 non-persistent desktops - 500 RDSH-based VMS - 100 AppStacks How many storage containers should an administrator…

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• A1 storage container for the non-persistent desktops, I storage container for the RDSH-based VMs,
• B1 storage container for the non-persistent desktops and RDSH-based VMs, and 1 container for the
• C2 storage containers with deduplication
• D1 storage container for all workloads

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  71% (15)
• C
  14% (3)
• D
  10% (2)

Explanation

Non-persistent desktops and RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Host) VMs share similar I/O characteristics - both are stateless or semi-stateless workloads that benefit from inline deduplication and compression because their OS disks originate from a common master image. They can share a single storage container efficiently. AppStacks (VMware App Volumes application packages) are read-only shared VMDK files with a completely different access pattern - they are attached to many VMs simultaneously and read sequentially. Placing AppStacks in a separate container isolates their I/O profile, allows independent storage policies, and prevents their read-heavy pattern from interfering with desktop IOPS. This two-container design is the Nutanix-recommended best practice for this workload mix.

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