Technical data

VMware Horizon View 5.3 and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual
Desktops Enabled by Brocade Network Fabrics, EMC VNX, and EMC Next-
Generation Backup
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Figures
Figure 1. Next-Generation VNX with multicore optimization .................... 23
Figure 2. Active/active processors increase performance, resiliency,
and efficiency .................................................................................. 25
Figure 3. New Unisphere Management Suite .............................................. 27
Figure 4. Solution components ...................................................................... 30
Figure 5. Compute layer flexibility ................................................................. 37
Figure 6. Highly-available Brocade network design example – for File
storage network ............................................................................... 39
Figure 7. Example of Highly-Available Brocade network design – for FC
block storage network .................................................................... 41
Figure 8. Storage pool rebalance progress ................................................. 45
Figure 9. Thin LUN space utilization ............................................................... 46
Figure 10. Examining storage pool space utilization .................................... 47
Figure 11. Defining storage pool utilization thresholds ................................. 48
Figure 12. Defining automated notifications for block ................................ 48
Figure 13. Authentication control flow for View access requests
originating on an external network............................................... 51
Figure 14. Logical architecture: VSPEX End-User Computing for VMware
Horizon View with RSA ..................................................................... 52
Figure 15. Horizon workspace architecture layout ....................................... 55
Figure 16. Logical architecture: VSPEX End-User Computing for VMware
View with Horizon Data .................................................................. 56
Figure 17. Logical architecture for block storage......................................... 61
Figure 18. Logical architecture for NFS storage ............................................ 62
Figure 19. Hypervisor memory consumption ................................................. 74
Figure 20. Required Brocade VDX network ................................................... 79
Figure 21. Required networks with block storage variant ........................... 80
Figure 22. VMware virtual disk types ............................................................... 83
Figure 23. Storage layout building block for 500 virtual desktops .............. 84
Figure 24. Storage layout building block for 1,000 virtual desktops ........... 84