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

Tables

Table 1. VMX thresholds and settings .......................................................... 49

Table 2. Minimum hardware resources to support SecurID...................... 52

Table 3. OVA virtual applications ................................................................. 54

Table 4. Minimum hardware resources to support VMware Horizon data57

Table 5. Recommended EMC VNX storage needed for the Horizon

Data NFS share ................................................................................. 58

Table 6. Solution hardware ........................................................................... 66

Table 7. Solution software ............................................................................. 69

Table 8. Sample server configuration .......................................................... 71

Table 9. Server hardware .............................................................................. 73

Table 10. Hardware resources for network infrastructure ........................... 76

Table 11. Storage hardware ........................................................................... 81

Table 12. Number of disks required for different number of virtual

desktops ............................................................................................ 85

Table 13. Validated environment profile ...................................................... 94

Table 14. Platform characteristics .................................................................. 95

Table 15. Platform characteristics .................................................................. 96

Table 16. Virtual desktop characteristics ...................................................... 99

Table 17. Blank worksheet row ..................................................................... 103

Table 18. Reference virtual desktop resources .......................................... 105

Table 19. Example worksheet row ................................................................ 105

Table 20. Example applications ................................................................... 106

Table 21. Server resource component totals ............................................. 107

Table 22. Blank customer worksheet ........................................................... 108

Table 23. Deployment process overview .................................................... 110

Table 24. Tasks for pre-deployment ............................................................. 111

Table 25. Deployment prerequisites checklist ............................................ 112

Table 26. Tasks for switch and network configuration ............................... 114

Table 27. Brocade switch default settings .................................................. 141