Manualshelf

Technical data

ManualsBrandsVMware ManualsOtherVCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3
31323334353637383940
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
35
Virtualization layer
VMware vSphere is the market-leading virtualization platform that is used
across thousands of IT environments around the world. VMware vSphere
transforms a computer’s physical resources by virtualizing the CPU,
Memory, Storage, and Network. This transformation creates fully functional
virtual desktops that run isolated and encapsulated operating systems and
applications just like physical computers.
The high-availability features of VMware vSphere are coupled with DRS
and VMware vMotion, which enables the seamless migration of virtual
desktops from one vSphere server to another with minimal impact to the
customer’s usage.
This solution uses VMware vSphere Desktop Edition for deploying desktop
virtualization. It provides the full range of features and functionalities of the
vSphere Enterprise Plus edition, allowing customers to achieve scalability,
high availability, and optimal performance for all of their desktop
workloads. vSphere Desktop also comes with unlimited vRAM entitlement.
vSphere Desktop edition is intended for customers who want to purchase
only vSphere licenses to deploy desktop virtualization.
VMware vCenter is a centralized management platform for the VMware
Virtual Infrastructure. It provides administrators with a single interface for all
aspects of monitoring, managing, and maintaining the virtual infrastructure
and can be accessed from multiple devices.
VMware vCenter is also responsible for managing some of the more
advanced features of the VMware virtual infrastructure like VMware
vSphere High Availability, DRS, vMotion, and Update Manager.
The VMware vSphere High Availability feature automatically allows the
virtualization layer to restart virtual machines in various failure conditions.
If the virtual machine operating system has an error, the virtual
machine can be automatically restarted on the same hardware.
If the physical hardware has an error, the impacted virtual
machines can be automatically restarted on other servers in the
cluster.
Note: In order to restart virtual machines on different hardware, those
physical servers will need to have resources available. Follow the specific
recommendations in Compute layer to enable this functionality.
VMware vSphere High Availability allows you to configure policies to
determine which machines are restarted automatically and under what
conditions these operations should be performed.