Installation guide

Chapter 3: Solution Overview
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EMC VSPEX End-User Computing: VMware Horizon View 5.3
and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual Desktops
Implementation Guide
Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the VSPEX End-User Computing for VMware
Horizon View on VMware vSphere solution and the key technologies used in the
solution. The solution has been designed and proven by EMC to provide the desktop
virtualization, server, network, storage, and backup resources to support reference
architectures at three points of scale: 500, 1000, and 2,000 virtual desktops.
Although the solution is designed to be layered on a VSPEX Private Cloud solution,
the reference architectures do not include the configuration details for the underlying
proven infrastructure. Refer to the VSPEX Proven Infrastructure Guides listed in
Essential reading for information on configuring the required infrastructure
components.
VSPEX Proven Infrastructures
EMC has joined forces with the industry-leading providers of IT infrastructure to create
a complete virtualization solution that accelerates the deployment of the private
cloud and VMware Horizon View virtual desktops. VSPEX enables customers to
accelerate their IT transformation with faster deployment, greater simplicity and
choice, higher efficiency, and lower risk, compared to the challenges and complexity
of building an IT infrastructure themselves.
VSPEX validation by EMC ensures predictable performance and enables customers to
select technology that uses their existing or newly acquired IT infrastructure while
eliminating planning, sizing, and configuration burdens. VSPEX provides a virtual
infrastructure for customers who want the simplicity that is characteristic of truly
converged infrastructures, with more choice in individual stack components.
VSPEX Proven Infrastructures, as shown in Figure 1, are modular, virtualized
infrastructures validated by EMC and delivered by EMC VSPEX partners. They include
virtualization, server, network, storage, and backup layers. Partners can choose the
virtualization, server, and network technologies that best fit a customer’s
environment, while the highly available EMC VNX family of storage systems and EMC
Powered Backup technologies provide the storage and backup layers.