FreeNAS for Horizon View

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What do you think about Nutanix storage performance compared to FreeNAS? The developers also announced NVMe support in their future product updates.

Nutanix and other hyper-converged systems are definitely a possibility; what you have to be careful there though is the scaling. Nutanix etc. offer you a fixed block of CPU+RAM+Storage - and if you find yourself short a little on RAM, there might not be an easy way to get just that without having to buy a whole additional "unit" and getting a bunch of CPU and storage you don't need.

A single card for test lab and multiple for production.

Not yet. I'll do it in 2 weeks. Right now I'm waiting for LSI 9207-i8 RMA which suddenly stopped working after I had connected 5-th HDD to make some tests.

Good to know. I like the three-host model because it lets you build three machines with the anticipation of being able to take one down for maintenance.

Why individual VMs so affects performance?

The management VMs for Horizon are CPU and memory hungry - recommended specs are 4 vCPU and 10GB+ of RAM. But with only 20 or so total VMs, I don't think you need to divide the Composer workload from the Connection Server; or possibly even the vCenter server.

I'm not in hurry right now))) I'm looking for rather good answers than fast ones. And your answers are very helpful. Thank you for that!

P.S. Sorry for my English. Still learning.

Glad to help. Again, the test-lab version of View will probably be a big help in understanding how you need/can scale this. From an overall design I would try to lean your non-CAD VMs towards being floating non-persistent, meaning that they're completely disposable. The CAD ones might not work in that setup though.