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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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optimization and high performance scalability. The EMC Fully Automated
Storage Tiering Suite (FAST Cache and FAST VP) tiers both block and file
data across heterogeneous drives and boosts the most active data to the
cache, ensuring that customers never have to make concessions in cost or
performance.
FAST VP dynamically absorbs unpredicted spikes in system workloads. As
that data ages and becomes less active over time, FAST VP tiers the data
from high-performance to high-capacity drives automatically, based on
customer-defined policies. This functionality has been enhanced with four
times better detail and with new FAST VP solid-state disks (SSDs) based on
enterprise multi-level cell (eMLC) technology to lower the cost per
gigabyte. All VSPEX use cases benefit from the increased efficiency.
VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver private cloud, end-user computing,
and virtualized application solutions. With VNX, customers can realize an
even greater return on their investment. VNX provides out-of-band, block-
based deduplication that can dramatically lower the costs of the flash tier.
VNX Intel MCx Code Path Optimization
The advent of flash technology has been a catalyst in making significant
changes in the requirements of midrange storage systems. EMC
redesigned the midrange storage platform to efficiently optimize multicore
CPUs to provide the highest performing storage system at the lowest cost
in the market.
MCx distributes all VNX data services across all cores—up to 32, as shown
in Figure 1. The VNX series with MCx has dramatically improved the file
performance for transactional applications like databases or virtual
machines over network-attached storage (NAS).
Figure 1. Next-Generation VNX with multicore optimization
Multicore Cache
The cache is the most valuable asset in the storage subsystem; its efficient
use is the key to the overall efficiency of the platform in handling variable
and changing workloads. The cache engine has been modularized to
take advantage of all the cores available in the system.