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Contents
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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Server configuration guidelines .......................................................................... 73
Overview ........................................................................................................... 73
vSphere memory virtualization for VSPEX ..................................................... 74
Memory configuration guidelines ................................................................. 75
Brocade Network configuration guidelines ...................................................... 76
Overview ........................................................................................................... 76
VLAN .................................................................................................................. 78
Zoning (FC Block Storage Network only) ...................................................... 80
Storage configuration guidelines ....................................................................... 81
Overview ........................................................................................................... 81
vSphere Storage Virtualization for VSPEX ..................................................... 82
VSPEX storage building block ........................................................................ 83
VSPEX end user computing validated maximums ...................................... 85
High availability and failover .............................................................................. 90
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 90
Virtualization layer ........................................................................................... 90
Compute layer ................................................................................................. 91
Brocade Network layer ................................................................................... 91
Storage layer .................................................................................................... 92
Validation test profile ........................................................................................... 94
Profile characteristics ...................................................................................... 94
Antivirus and antimalware platform profile ...................................................... 95
Platform characteristics .................................................................................. 95
vShield Architecture ........................................................................................ 95
vCenter Operations Manager for View platform profile desktops ............... 96
Platform characteristics .................................................................................. 96
vCenter Operations Manager for View Architecture ................................ 97
Backup and recovery configuration guidelines .............................................. 98
Sizing guidelines .................................................................................................... 98
Reference workload ............................................................................................ 98
Defining the reference workload .................................................................. 98
Applying the reference workload ...................................................................... 99
Concurrency .................................................................................................... 99
Heavier desktop workloads ............................................................................ 99
Implementing the reference architectures .................................................... 100
Overview ......................................................................................................... 100
Resource types ............................................................................................... 100