The Design And Implementation Of Horizon Sizing Tool

The size of enterprise centralized virtual desktops is growing rapidly, VMware has faced the need to handle large delopyments machine measurement. With the release of VMware Horizon 6, VMware is aid for sizing VMware Horizon deployment, maintaining current VMware products best practices and assisting users with key design decisions. VMware develops a high performance, scalable and stable measurement tool to help users measure the size of their own centralized virtual desktop deployment.Before the release of VMware Horizon 6 Sizing Tool, competitively Citrix already have a sizing tool that they provide as a hosted solution, which is popular with customers and is accelerating opportunities. Another unofficial tool, VDI Calculator is also popular with partners. Some tools are more complex than others, however, these are susceptible to mistakes and do not factor best practices and the latest sizing guidance.Horizon Sizing Tool shows users best practices and sizing techniques.The system is based on Liferay framework, front-end uses JSP, CSS technology, back-end is written in Java, JavaScript is responsible for sizing calculation and logic verification, also we use jQuery and AJAX to help our development. The tool uses Liferay MVC architecture, thereby reducing the coupling between the layers. Thus it improves scalability and make it clear structure and easy maintain. The tool is divided into three parts:information management module, decision module and result module. In information management module, through add new information,edit information and delete information, users revise and improve their deployment requirements. By editing decision rules in decision module, users make their own decision sizing rules’ requirements. By editing calculate rules in result module, users make their own result sizing rules’requirements. Commonly, users will use the tool’s default sizing rules, also they can customize their own sizing rules to meet their specification.Horizon Sizing Tool is the deployment tool for VMware Horizon 6. The tool has gone into production which has created economic benefits and social value for VMware.