Technical data

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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Contents
Chapter 1 Executive Summary .......................................................... 15
Introduction ........................................................................................................... 16
Audience ............................................................................................................... 16
Document purpose .............................................................................................. 16
Business needs....................................................................................................... 17
Chapter 2 Solution Overview ............................................................. 18
Solution overview.................................................................................................. 19
Desktop broker ...................................................................................................... 19
Virtualization .......................................................................................................... 19
Compute ............................................................................................................... 20
Network .................................................................................................................. 20
Storage................................................................................................................... 21
EMC Next-Generation VNX ............................................................................ 22
VNX performance ............................................................................................ 24
Virtualization management ........................................................................... 26
Chapter 3 Solution Technology Overview ....................................... 29
The technology solution ...................................................................................... 30
Key components .................................................................................................. 31
Desktop virtualization broker ............................................................................... 32
Overview ........................................................................................................... 32
VMware Horizon View 5.3 ............................................................................... 32
VMware View Composer 5.3 ......................................................................... 33
VMware View Persona Management .......................................................... 34
VMware View Storage Accelerator .............................................................. 34
Virtualization layer ................................................................................................ 35
VMware vSphere ............................................................................................. 35
VMware vCenter ............................................................................................. 35
VMware vSphere High Availability ................................................................ 35