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VSPEX Configuration Guidelines
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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g. Choose the 10 LUNs you just created.
They appear in the Selected LUNs pane.
h. Select A new storage pool for file is ready or manually rescan.
i. Click Storage > Storage Pool for File > Rescan Storage System to
create multiple file systems.
Note: EMC Performance Engineering best practice recommends that
you create approximately 1 LUN for every 4 drives in the storage pool
and that you create LUNs in even multiples of 10. Refer to EMC VNX
Unified Best Practices For Performance Applied Best Practices Guide.
3. Configure four file systems of 485 GB each and one file system of 50
GB (for 500 virtual desktops), eight file systems of 360 GB each and
two file systems of 50 GB each (for 1,000 virtual desktops), or 16 file
systems of 365 GB each and two file systems of 50 GB each (for
2,000 virtual desktops). Configure these from the NAS pool to
present to the vSphere servers as four NFS datastores.
a. Go to Storage > Storage Configuration > File Systems.
b. In the dialog box, click Create.
c. Select Create from Storage Pool.
d. Type a value in Storage Capacity and accept the default
values for all other parameters.
4. Export the file systems using NFS, and give root access to vSphere
servers.
5. In Unisphere:
a. Select Settings > Data Mover Parameters to make changes to
the Data Mover configuration.
b. From the Set Parameters list, select All Parameters, as shown in
Figure 42.
Figure 42. View all Data Mover parameters
c. Scroll down to the nthreads parameter as shown in Figure 43.
d. Right-click and select Properties to update the setting.
Note: The default number of threads serving NFS requests is 384 per data
mover on VNX. Because more than 384 desktop connections are
required in this solution, increase the number of active NFS threads to a
maximum of 512 (for 500 virtual desktops) or 1,024 (for 1,000 virtual
desktops) or 2,048 (for 2,000 virtual desktops) on each data mover.