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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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If the VMware vCenter Server is to be deployed as a virtual machine on a
vSphere server installed as part of this solution, connect directly to an
Infrastructure vSphere server using the vSphere Client. Create a virtual
machine on the vSphere server with the guest OS configuration using the
infrastructure server datastore presented from the storage array. The
memory and processor requirements for the vCenter server are dependent
on the number of vSphere hosts and virtual machines being managed. The
requirements are outlined in the vSphere Installation and Setup Guide.
Refer to the list of documents in Appendix C of this document for more
information.
Install the guest OS on the vCenter host virtual machine. VMware
recommends using Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition. Refer to the
list of documents in Appendix C of this document for more information.
Before installing the vCenter Server and vCenter Update Manager, create
the ODBC connections required for database communication. These
ODBC connections will use SQL Server authentication for database
authentication. The section entitled Configure the database for VMware
vCenter on page 169 provides SQL login information.
Refer to the list of documents in Appendix C of this document for more
information.
Install vCenter by using the VMware VIMSetup installation media. Use the
customer-provided username, organization, and vCenter license key when
installing vCenter.
To perform license maintenance, log in to the vCenter Server and select
the Administration > Licensing menu from the vSphere Client. Use the
vCenter License console to enter the license keys for the vSphere hosts.
After this, they can be applied to the vSphere hosts as they are imported
into vCenter.
The vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) plug-in enables support for
the vSphere NFS primitives. These primitives reduce the load on the
hypervisor from specific storage-related tasks to free resources for other
operations. Additional information about the VAAI for NFS plug-in is
available in the plug-in download vSphere Storage APIs for Array
Integration (VAAI) Plug-in. Refer to the list of documents in Appendix C of
this document for more information.
The VAAI for NFS plug-in is installed using vSphere Update Manager. Refer
to the process for distributing the plug-in demonstrated in the EMC VNX
VAAI NFS plug-in – installation HOWTO video available on the
www.youtube.com website. To enable the plug-in after installation, restart
the vSphere server.