Technical data

Solution Technology 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

To provide a predictable performance for an end-user computing solution,

the storage system must be able to handle the peak I/O load from the

clients while keeping response time to minimum. Designing for this

workload involves the deployment of many disks to handle brief periods of

extreme I/O pressure, which is expensive to implement. This solution uses

EMC VNX FAST Cache to reduce the number of disks required.

EMC next-generation backup enables protection of user data and end-

user recoverability. This is accomplished by using EMC Avamar

and its

desktop client within the desktop image.

Key components

This section describes the key components of this solution.

 Desktop virtualization broker

Manages the provisioning, allocation, maintenance, and eventual

removal of the virtual desktop images that are provided to users of

the system. This software is critical to enable on-demand creation

of desktop images, allow maintenance to the image without

affecting user productivity, and prevent the environment from

growing in an unconstrained way.

 Virtualization layer

Allows the physical implementation of resources to be decoupled

from the applications that use them. In other words, the

application’s view of the resources available is no longer directly

tied to the hardware. This enables many key features in the End-

User Computing concept.

 Compute layer

Provides memory and processing resources for the virtualization layer

software as well as for the applications running in the infrastructure. The

VSPEX program defines the minimum amount of compute layer resources

required but allows the customer to implement the requirements using any

server hardware that meets these requirements.

 Network

Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabric or Connectrix-B Fibre Channel Fabric

switches with Brocade Fabric networking technology connect the users of

the environment to the resources they need and connects the storage

layer to the compute layer. EMC VSPEX with Brocade networking solutions

provides the required storage network connectivity, redundancy, and

scalability. The EMC VSPEX with Brocade networking solutions enables the

customer to implement a solution that provides a cost effective, resilient,

and operationally efficient virtualization platform.