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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
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customer might want to implement this by using white-box servers
containing 16 processor cores, and 64 GB of RAM. A second customer
chooses a higher-end server with 20 processor cores and 144 GB of RAM.
Figure 5 depicts this example.
Figure 5. Compute layer flexibility
You should observe the following best practices in the compute layer:
 Use a number of identical or at least compatible servers. VSPEX
implements hypervisor level high-availability technologies that
may require similar instruction sets on the underlying physical
hardware. By implementing VSPEX on identical server units, you
can minimize compatibility problems in this area.
 If you are implementing hypervisor layer high availability, the
largest virtual machine you can create will be constrained by the
smallest physical server in the environment.