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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

Multicore RAID

Another important improvement to the MCx design is how it handles I/O to

the permanent back-end storage—hard disk drives (HDDs) and SSDs. The

modularization of the back-end data management processing, which

enables MCx to seamlessly scale across all processors, greatly increases

the performance of the VNX system.

VNX storage, enabled with the MCx architecture, is optimized for FLASH 1

and provides unprecedented overall performance; it optimizes transaction

performance (cost per IOPS), bandwidth performance (cost per GB/s) with

low latency, and capacity efficiency (cost per GB).

VNX provides the following performance improvements:

 Up to four times more file transactions when compared with dual

controller arrays

 Increased file performance for transactional applications (for

example, Microsoft Exchange on VMware over NFS) by up to

three times with a 60 percent better response time

 Up to four times more Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server OLTP

transactions

 Up to four times more virtual machines

Active/active array service processors

The new VNX architecture provides active/active array service processors,

as shown in Figure 2, which eliminate application timeouts during path

failover because both paths are actively serving I/O.

Load balancing is also improved, providing up to double the performance

for applications. Active/active for block is ideal for applications that

require the highest levels of availability and performance, but do not

require tiering or efficiency services like compression, deduplication, or

snapshot.

With this VNX release, VSPEX customers can use virtual Data Movers (VDMs)

and VNX Replicator to perform automated and high-speed file-system

migrations between systems. This process migrates all snaps and settings

automatically, and enables the clients to continue operation during the

migration.

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