Technical data

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

Step 7: Create the vLAG for VNX ports ...................................................... 134

Step 8: Connecting the VCS Fabric to existing Infrastructure through

Uplinks ....................................................................................................... 136

Step 9 Configure MTU and Jumbo Frames (for NFS) ................................. 138

Step 10: Enable Flow Control Support ........................................................ 138

Step 11- Auto QOS for NAS ........................................................................... 138

Prepare and configure the storage array ...................................................... 152

VNX configuration ......................................................................................... 152

Provision core data storage ......................................................................... 153

Provision optional storage for user data ..................................................... 158

Provision optional storage for infrastructure virtual machines................. 161

Install and configure vSphere hosts ................................................................. 162

Overview ......................................................................................................... 162

Install vSphere................................................................................................. 162

Configure vSphere NetworkingConniknfnevjrevnervlkjnvrelgv ............... 163

Jumbo frames ................................................................................................ 163

Connect VMware datastores ...................................................................... 164

Plan virtual machine memory allocations.................................................. 165

Install and configure SQL Server database .................................................... 167

Overview ......................................................................................................... 167

Create a virtual machine for Microsoft SQL Server ................................... 168

Install Microsoft Windows on the virtual machine ..................................... 168

Install SQL Server ............................................................................................ 168

Configure the database for VMware vCenter.......................................... 169

Configure database for VMware Update Manager ................................ 169

Configure database for VMware View Composer .................................. 169

Configure database for VMware Horizon View Manager ...................... 169

Configure the VMware Horizon View and View Composer database

permissions ............................................................................................... 170

VMware vCenter Server Deployment ............................................................. 171

Overview ......................................................................................................... 171

Create the vCenter host virtual machine .................................................. 173

Install vCenter guest OS ................................................................................ 173

Create vCenter ODBC connections ........................................................... 173

Install vCenter Server ..................................................................................... 173

Apply vSphere license keys .......................................................................... 173

vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) Plug-in .................................... 173

Deploy PowerPath/VE (FC variant) ............................................................. 174