Technical data
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
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Zoning is mechanism used to specify the devices in the fabric that should
be allowed to communicate with each other for storage network traffic
between host & storage (Block based only). Zoning is based on either port
World Wide Name (pWWN) or Domain, Port (D, P). (See the Secure SAN
Zoning Best Practices white paper in Appendix C for details.) When using
pWWN, the SAN administrators cannot pre-provision zone assignments until
the servers are connected and the WWN name of the HBAs is known. The
Brocade fabric-based implementation supports a scalable solution for
environments with blade and rack servers. This solution calls for a minimum
of 2 zones:
Block Storage Network
Figure 21 depicts the VLANs for Client Access network & Management
network and the zones for Bock Storage network connectivity
requirements for a block-based VNX array.
Figure 21. Required networks with block storage variant
Zoning (FC Block
Storage Network
only)