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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
4
EMC Virtual Storage Integrator for VMware ................................................ 36
VNX VMware vStorage API for Array Integration Support ......................... 36
Compute layer ...................................................................................................... 36
Network .................................................................................................................. 38
File Storage Network with Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabric switches .......... 38
Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabric Virtualization Automation Support ........... 40
FC Block Storage Network with Brocade 6510 Fibre Channel switch ...... 40
Storage................................................................................................................... 42
Overview ........................................................................................................... 42
EMC VNX Series ................................................................................................ 42
EMC VNX Snapshots ........................................................................................ 43
EMC VNX SnapSure ......................................................................................... 43
EMC VNX Virtual Provisioning ......................................................................... 44
VNX FAST Cache .............................................................................................. 49
VNX FAST VP (optional) ................................................................................... 49
VNX file shares .................................................................................................. 49
ROBO ................................................................................................................. 49
Backup and Recovery with EMC Avamar ........................................................ 50
Security layer ......................................................................................................... 50
RSA SecurID Two-Factor Authentication ...................................................... 50
SecurID Authentication in the VSPEX End-User Computing for VMware
Horizon View Environment ....................................................................... 51
Required components .................................................................................... 51
Compute, memory and storage resources ................................................. 52
Other components ............................................................................................... 53
VMware vShield Endpoint .............................................................................. 53
VMware vCenter operations manager for View ........................................ 53
VMware Horizon File Share ............................................................................. 54
Chapter 4 Solution Architectural Overview ..................................... 59
Solution overview.................................................................................................. 60
Solution architecture ............................................................................................ 60
Logical architecture ........................................................................................ 60
Key components .............................................................................................. 62
VNX family storage arrays............................................................................... 65
Hardware resources ........................................................................................ 66
Software resources .......................................................................................... 69
Sizing for validated configuration ................................................................. 70