Installation guide

Contents
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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
Tables
Terminology......................................................................................... 10 Table 1.
Tasks for pre-deployment .................................................................... 12 Table 2.
Deployment workflow .......................................................................... 13 Table 3.
Deployment prerequisites checklist ..................................................... 14 Table 4.
Solution components .......................................................................... 22 Table 1.
Implementation process overview ....................................................... 24 Table 2.
Tasks for switch and network configuration ......................................... 25 Table 3.
Tasks for storage configuration ............................................................ 28 Table 4.
Create a block-based RAID 5 storage pool ........................................... 29 Table 5.
LUNs on VNX for storing virtual desktops ............................................. 30 Table 6.
Create a block-based RAID 5 storage pool ........................................... 30 Table 7.
Configure LUNs for NAS pool ............................................................... 31 Table 8.
Configure file systems as NFS datastores ............................................ 31 Table 9.
Create block-based RAID 6 storage pool .............................................. 34 Table 10.
Configure LUNs for NAS pool ............................................................... 34 Table 11.
VNX thresholds and settings ................................................................ 39 Table 12.
Tasks for server installation ................................................................. 39 Table 13.
Tasks for SQL Server database setup ................................................... 41 Table 14.
Tasks for vCenter configuration ........................................................... 42 Table 15.
Tasks for VMware Horizon View Connection Server setup .................... 44 Table 16.
Tasks required to install and configure vShield Endpoint ..................... 49 Table 17.
Tasks required to install and configure vCOps ..................................... 51 Table 18.
Tasks for testing the installation .......................................................... 54 Table 19.
Common server information ................................................................ 63 Table 20.
vSphere Server information ................................................................. 63 Table 21.
Array information ................................................................................. 63 Table 22.
Network infrastructure information ...................................................... 64 Table 23.
VLAN information ................................................................................ 64 Table 24.
Service accounts ................................................................................. 64 Table 25.