Technical data

Solution Overview
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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Solution overview
The EMC VSPEX End-User Computing with Brocade networking solutions for
VMware Horizon View on VMware vSphere provides a complete system
architecture capable of supporting up to 2,000 virtual desktops with a
redundant server/network topology and highly available storage. The core
components that make up this particular solution are desktop broker,
virtualization, compute, networking, and storage.
Desktop broker
View is the virtual desktop solution from VMware that allows virtual
desktops to be run on the VMware vSphere virtualization environment. It
allows for the centralization of desktop management and provides
increased control for IT organizations. View allows end users to connect to
their desktop from multiple devices across a network connection.
Virtualization
VMware vSphere is the leading virtualization platform in the industry. For
years, it has provided flexibility and cost savings to end users by enabling
the consolidation of large, inefficient server farms into nimble, reliable
cloud infrastructures. The core VMware vSphere components are the
VMware vSphere Hypervisor and the VMware vCenter Server for system
management.
The VMware hypervisor runs on a dedicated server and allows multiple
operating systems to execute on the system at one time as virtual
desktops. These hypervisor systems can then be connected to operate in
a clustered configuration. These clustered configurations are then
managed as a larger resource pool through the vCenter product and
allow for dynamic allocation of CPU, memory, network, and storage across
the cluster.
Features like vMotion, which allows a virtual machine to move between
different servers with no disruption to the operating system, and Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS) which perform vMotions automatically to
balance load, make vSphere a solid business choice.
With the release of vSphere 5.5, a VMware virtualized environment can
host virtual machines with up to 64 virtual CPUs and 1 TB of virtual RAM.