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
Figure 2 shows the high-level architecture of the validated solution.
Architecture of the validated solution Figure 2.
The solution uses EMC VNX and VMware vSphere to provide the storage and
virtualization platforms for a VMware Horizon View environment of Microsoft
Windows 7 virtual desktops provisioned by VMware Horizon View Composer.
For the solution, we
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deployed the VNX5200 to support up to 500 virtual desktops,
the VNX5400 to support up to 1,000 virtual desktops, and the VNX5600 to support
up to 2,000 virtual desktops.
The solution is designed to be layered on a VSPEX Private Cloud solution for VMware
vSphere, backed by the highly available EMC VNX family, which provides the storage.
The infrastructure services for the solution, as shown in Figure 3, can be provided by
existing infrastructure at the customer site, by the VSPEX Private Cloud, or by
deploying them as dedicated resources as part of the solution.
Planning and designing the storage infrastructure for a Horizon View environment is
critical because the shared storage must be able to absorb large bursts of I/O that
occur during a day. These bursts can lead to periods of erratic and unpredictable
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In this guide, "we" refers to the EMC Solutions engineering team that validated the solution.