Using D2200sb in C7000 for 900 VDI clients, any problems?

[Louis Henninger_1]

We have a C7000 enc with 15 BL460/G6 blades. We want to eleminate the SAN storgage back-end and just use attached storage. Is this do-able? We are going to use four 1GB nics from each Blade, and was trhinking of the D2200sb fully populated with SAS 600GB disks 6G 10K for the storage.

Thanks,

Louis

[Martin Smoral · Accepted solution]

This will work as Direct Attached Storage to one of your BL460G6's (in the adjacent slot) but it cannot be shared with the other BL460's. to use this as a shared (iscsi) storage, you will need a HP P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) software to turn the D2200sb into an iSCSI SAN for use by all servers in the enclosure

[Louis Henninger_1]

Thanks for your reply. I knew we needed the additional software and was more concerned with the iops needed to support 900 VDI clients. After more research and con-call with HP and VDI team, 8000 IOPS were required for our clients therefore a left-hand SAN solution would be a better fit for us.

Regards,
Louis

[Louis Henninger_1]

See both replies. Thanks