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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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– active links for all traffic from the virtualized compute servers to the EMC
VNX storage arrays. The Brocade VDX provides a network with high
availability and redundancy by using link aggregation for EMC VNX
storage array. Figure 6 depicts an example of the Brocade network
topology for file based storage.
Figure 6. Highly-available Brocade network design example – for File
storage network
This validated solution uses virtual local area networks (VLANs) to
segregate network traffic of various types to improve throughput,
manageability, application separation, high availability, and security.
EMC unified storage platforms provide network high availability or
redundancy by using link aggregation. Link aggregation enables multiple
active Ethernet connections to appear as a single link with a single MAC
address, and potentially multiple IP addresses. In this solution, Link
Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is configured on VNX, combining
multiple Ethernet ports into a single virtual device. If a link is lost in the