Technical data

Bills of Materials
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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Bill of Materials for 500 virtual desktops
Component
Solution for 500 virtual machines
VMware
vSphere
Servers
CPU
1 x vCPU per virtual machine
8 x vCPUs per physical core
500 x vCPUs
Minimum of 63 physical cores
Memory
2 GB RAM per desktop
2 GB RAM reservation per vSphere host
Network – FC
option
2 x 4/8 GB FC HBAs per server
Network – 1 Gb
option
6 x 1 GbE NICs per server
Note: To implement the VMware vSphere High Availability
(HA) feature and to meet the listed minimum requirements,
the infrastructure should have at least one additional server
beyond the number needed to meet the minimum
requirements.
Brocade
Network
infrastructure
Fibre Channel
Block network
2 x Brocade 6510 Fibre Channel switches
4 x 4/8 Gb FC ports for VNX Backend
(Two per SP)
2 x 4/8 Gb FC ports per vSphere Server
for storage traffic
2 x 10 GbE ports per vSphere Server for
data traffic
10 GbE file
storage network
2x Brocade VDX 6740 Ethernet Fabric
switches
2 x 10GbE ports per vSphere server
2 x 10GbE ports per data mover for data
Management
network
1 x 1 GbE ports per SP controller
1 x 1 GbE port(s) per vSphere Server
Note: When choosing the Fibre Channel option for storage,
you will still need to choose one of the IP network options to
have full connectivity.
EMC Next-
Generation
Backup
Avamar
1 x Gen4 utility node
1 x Gen4 3.9 TB spare node
3 x Gen4 3.9 TB storage nodes