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Solution Architectural 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

Solution overview

VSPEX Proven Infrastructure solutions with Brocade networking are built

with proven best-of-breed technologies to create a complete virtualization

solution that enables you to make an informed decision when choosing

and sizing the hypervisor and compute layers. VSPEX eliminates many

server virtualization planning and configuration burdens by leveraging

extensive interoperability, functional, and performance testing by EMC.

VSPEX accelerates your IT Transformation to cloud-based computing by

enabling faster deployment, more choice, higher efficiency, and lower risk.

This chapter includes a comprehensive guide to the major aspects of this

solution. The customer is free to select the server hardware of their choice

that meets or exceeds the stated minimums; server capacity is specified in

generic terms for required minimums of CPU, memory, and storage

network with Brocade Fabric network switch interfaces. The specified

storage architecture, along with a system meeting the server and Brocade

storage network requirements outlined, has been validated by EMC to

provide high levels of performance while delivering a highly available

architecture for your End-User Computing deployment.

Each VSPEX Proven Infrastructure balances the storage, network, and

compute resources needed for a set number of virtual desktops, which

have been validated by EMC. In practice, each virtual machine has its

own set of requirements that rarely fit a pre-defined idea of what a virtual

machine should be. In any discussion about virtual infrastructures, it is

important to first define a reference workload. Not all servers perform the

same tasks, and it is impractical to build a reference that takes into

account every possible combination of workload characteristics.

Solution architecture

The VSPEX End-User-Computing solution for up to 2,000 virtual desktops is

validated at three different points of scale. These defined configurations

form the basis of creating a custom solution. These points of scale are

defined in terms of the reference workload.

Note: VSPEX uses the concept of a Reference Workload to describe and

define a virtual machine. Therefore, one physical or virtual desktop in an

existing environment may not be equal to one virtual desktop in a VSPEX

solution. Evaluate your workload in terms of the reference to arrive at an

appropriate point of scale. The detailed process is described in Applying

the reference workload.

The architecture diagrams in this section show the layout of the major

components comprising the solutions. This solution includes two variants:

block storage and file storage.

Logical

architecture