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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

DNS Server—Required for the various solution components to perform

name resolution. The Microsoft DNS Service running on a Windows Server

2012 server is used for this purpose.

Active Directory Server—Services that are required for the various solution

components to function properly. The Microsoft AD Directory Service

running on a Windows Server 2012 server is used for this purpose.

Shared Infrastructure —DNS and authentication/authorization services like

Microsoft Active Directory can be provided using the existing infrastructure

or set up as part of the new virtual infrastructure.

IP network—A shared IP network carries user and management traffic. A

standard Ethernet network should use redundant cabling and switching.

Brocade Storage Network — VSPEX with Brocade networking offers

different options for block-based and file-based storage networks. All

storage traffic is carried over redundant cabling and Brocade Fabric

switches.

Storage Network for Block:

This solution provides three options for block based storage networks.

 Fibre Channel (FC) is a set of standards that define protocols for

performing high speed serial data transfer. FC provides a

standard data transport frame among servers and shared

storage devices.

 Brocade 6510 Fibre Channel Switch — Provides fast, easy and

resilience scaling from 24 to 48 Ports on Demand (PoD)

capabilities and supports 2,4, 8, or 16 Gbps speeds for FC

attached VNX5400, VNX5600, and VNX5800 arrays .

 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a new storage networking

protocol that supports FC natively over Ethernet, by

encapsulating FC frames into Ethernet frames. This allows the

encapsulated FC frames to run alongside traditional Internet

Protocol (IP) traffic.

 Brocade VDX 6740 Ethernet Fabric Switch — Provides efficient,

easy to configure, resiliency that scales from 24 to 64 Port on

Demand (PoD) at 10GbE for FCoE attached VNX5400, VNX 5600

and VNX 5800 arrays.

 10 Gb Ethernet (iSCSI) enables the transport of SCSI blocks over a

TCP/IP network. iSCSI works by encapsulating SCSI commands

into TCP packets and sending the packets over the IP network.

 Brocade VDX 6740 Ethernet Fabric Switch — Provides efficient,

easy to configure, resiliency that scales from 24 to 64 Port on

Demand (PoD) at 1 GbE or 10GbE for iSCSI attached VNX5400,

VNX 5600 and VNX 5800 arrays.