To add a workload simply click on the Add Workload link. That will pop up the Add Workload page.
As shown below there are several workload options
- VDI – This is a virtual desktop environment for different user profiles
- Xenapp – This is a virtual desktop environment for different user profiles.
- Server Virtualization – This is for users wanting to deploy web applications
- SQL Server – This is for users wanting to deploy SQL Server
- RAW Input – This is to simulate other workloads
- File Services (AFS). – This is for customers that want to store files on our infrastructure
- Once the workload type is selected you can make edits as necessary
One thing that is nice in 3.0, is that all the workload parameters are all on one page. Thus it is easier to make edits and see all the parameters at once
How to change a profile?
Many of the workloads have profiles like small, medium, large VM or SQL server. VDI has different user profiles which can be edited
How to define snapshots and Disaster Recover?
If Data Protection is set to Yes than can have following options
- Local snapshots – here snapshots are kept locally
- Local and remote snapshots – Here snapshots are in both clusters
- Disaster Recovery and Local and Remote snapshots – Here in addition to snapshots we duplicate the resources required to run the workload on the remote cluster to support asynchronous disaster recovery.
If either Remote snapshots or Disaster Recovery is expected then a Remote Cluster needs to be specified. Also Sizer needs to know the snapshot frequency in minutes, amount of change expected within a snapshot period, and number of snapshots retained. Same policy is applied to local and remote snapshots.
