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 Material for 1,000 virtual desktops
Component
Solution for 1,000 Virtual
Machines
VMware
vSphere Servers
CPU
1 x vCPU per virtual machine
8 x vCPUs per physical core
1000 x vCPUs
Minimum of 125 physical cores
Memory
2 GB RAM per desktop
Minimum of 2 TB RAM
Network – FC option
2 x 4/8 GB FC HBAs per server
Network – 1Gb option
6 x 1 GbE NICs per server
Network – 10Gb option
3 x 10 GbE NICs per blade chassis
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.