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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

VMware vSphere—Provides a common virtualization layer to host a server

environment that contains the virtual machines. The specifics of the

validated environment are listed in Table 6. VSphere provides a highly

available infrastructure through such features as:

 vMotion—Provides live migration of virtual machines within a

virtual infrastructure cluster with no virtual machine downtime or

service disruption.

 Storage vMotion—Provides live migration of virtual machine disk

files within and across storage arrays with no virtual machine

downtime or service disruption.

 vSphere High Availability (HA)—Detects and provides rapid

recovery for a failed virtual machine in a cluster.

 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)—Provides load balancing

of computing capacity in a cluster.

 Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)—Provides load

balancing across multiple datastores, based on space use and

I/O latency.

VMware vCenter Server—Provides a scalable and extensible platform that

forms the foundation for virtualization management for the VMware

vSphere cluster. All vSphere hosts and their virtual machines are managed

through vCenter.

VMware vShield Endpoint—Offloads virtual desktop antivirus and

antimalware scanning operations to a dedicated secure virtual appliance

delivered by VMware partners. Offloading scanning operations improves

desktop consolidation ratios and performance by eliminating antivirus

storms, streamlining antivirus and antimalware deployment, and

monitoring and satisfying compliance and audit requirements through

detailed antivirus and antimalware activity logging.

VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View (vCOps)— monitors the

virtual desktops and all of the supporting elements of the VMware Horizon

View virtual infrastructure.

VSI for VMware vSphere—A plug-in to the vSphere Client that provides

storage management for EMC arrays directly from the Client. VSI is highly

customizable and helps provide a unified management interface.

VMware vCenter SQL Server—Requires a database service to store

configuration and monitoring details. A Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

running on a Windows 2008 R2 Server is used for this purpose.

DHCP server—Centrally manages the IP address scheme for the virtual

desktops. This service is hosted on the same virtual machine as the domain

controller and DNS server. The Microsoft DHCP Service running on a

Windows 2012 server is used for this purpose.