VMware Horizon View 6 sizing limits and recommendations (2080467)

Purpose

This article provides sizing limits and recommendations for a VMware Horizon View 6 environment. 

Resolution

Note: Your experience may vary with the recommended settings.


Desktop Session Limits

Maximum number of active sessions per View Cloud Pod	20000
Maximum number of View Pods per Cloud Pod	4
Maximum number of Sites per View Cloud Pod	2
Active Connections per View Pod	10000
Maximum number of active Connection Servers per View Pod	7 (Stay within 10000 sessions)
Active sessions per Connection Server with Direct connection, RDP, Tunneled or PCoIP	2000

ESX & Virtual Machine Limits

Hosts per cluster (VMFS+NFS)	32
Virtual Machines per CPU core	8-10 recommended
Virtual Machines per replica	4000
Virtual Machines per vCenter	10000
Virtual Machines per Pool	2000
Virtual Machines per ESXi Host	1000

Storage Limits

Virtual Machines per LUN with VAAI	140 (non-VAAI = 128 VMFS, 250+ NFS)
VSAN hosts per cluster	32 (16 recommended)
Virtual Machines per cluster when using VSAN	3200
VSAN Disk groups	5
Flash/SSD per disk group	1
HDD per disk group	7
VSAN Datastores per cluster	1

RDSH Sizing

Max Sessions per RDSH	150 (50 recommended for less power hosts)
Recommended vCPU per RDSH	4
Recommended vRAM per RDSH	64 GB (~1 GB per User)
Recommended RDSH per ESX host	1 per 4 logical cores (do not overcommit cores)

Connection Servers

Memory	12 GB recommended
vCPU	4vCPU
Server per session	1 per 2000 sessions
Availability	N + 1
External Access	2 Connection Servers recommended
Max Connection Servers per View Pod	7

Security Servers

Max connections per Security Server	2000
Max Blast Secure Gateway	2000

Source:-

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2080467&src=vmw_so_vex_ragga_1012