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

Compute

VSPEX allows the flexibility of designing and implementing the vendor’s

choice of server components. The infrastructure must meet the following

requirements:

 Sufficient RAM, cores and memory to support the required

number and types of virtual machines

 Sufficient network connections to enable redundant connectivity

to the system switches

 Excess capacity to withstand a server failure and failover in the

environment

Network

Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabric and Fibre Channel Fabric switch technology

enable the implementation of a high performance, efficient, and resilient

networks validated with the VSPEX proven architectures. VSPEX with

Brocade provides the storage network infrastructure the meets the

requirements for redundant links for to existing infrastructure, compute, and

storage with traffic isolation based on industry best practices. Brocade

networking solutions provide an open standards based solution that

unleashes the full potential of high-density server virtualization, private

cloud architectures, and EMC VNX storage.

Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabrics networking solutions provides the following

attributes:

 Offers flexibility to deploy 1000BASE-T and upgrade to 10GBASE-T for

higher bandwidth

 Delivers high performance and reduces network congestion with 10

Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, low latency, and 24 MB deep buffers

 Improves capacity with the ability to create up to a 160 GbE uplink

with Brocade ISL Trunking

 Manages an entire multitenant Brocade VCS fabric as a single

switch with Brocade VCS Logical Chassis

 Provides efficiently load-balanced multipathing at Layers 1, 2, and

3, including multiple Layer 3 gateways

 Simplifies Virtual Machine (VM) mobility and management with

automated, dynamic port profile configuration and migration

 Supports Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies within

data, control, and management planes