Technical data

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

better performance and lower latency. In these environments, IT

departments need to balance the benefits of local support with the need

to maintain central control. Local systems and storage should be easy for

local personnel to administer, but also support remote management and

flexible aggregation tools that minimize the demands on those local

resources.

With VSPEX, you can accelerate the deployment of applications at

remote offices and branch offices. Customers can also use Unisphere

Remote to consolidate monitoring, system alerts, and reporting of

hundreds of locations while maintaining operational simplicity and unified

storage functionality for local managers.

Backup and Recovery with EMC Avamar

EMC Avamar delivers the protection confidence needed to accelerate

deployment of VSPEX End User Computing.

Avamar empowers administrators to centrally backup and manage

policies and EUC infrastructure components, while allowing end users to

efficiently recover their own files from a simple and intuitive web-based

interface. By moving only new, unique sub-file data segments, Avamar

delivers fast daily full backups, with up to 90% reduction in backup times,

while reducing the required daily network bandwidth by up to 99%. And all

Avamar recoveries are single-step for simplicity.

Security layer

RSA SecurID two-factor authentication can provide enhanced security for

the VSPEX End-User Computing environment by requiring the user to

authenticate with two pieces of information, collectively called a

passphrase, consisting of:

 Something the user knows: a PIN, which is used like any other PIN

or password.

 Something the user has: A token code, provided by a physical or

software “token,” which changes every 60 seconds.

The typical use case deploys SecurID to authenticate users accessing

protected resources from an external or public network. Access requests

originating from within a secure network are authenticated by traditional

mechanisms involving Active Directory or LDAP. A configuration

description for implementing SecurID is available for the VSPEX End-User

Computing infrastructures.

SecurID functionality is managed through RSA Authentication Manager,

which also controls administrative functions such as token assignment to

users, user management, and high availability.

RSA SecurID

Two-Factor

Authentication