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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Hardware
Configuration
Notes
For 500 virtual desktops
 5 x 300 GB 15 k rpm 3.5-inch SAS disks
For 1,000 virtual desktops
 5 x 300 GB 15 k rpm 3.5-inch SAS disks
For 2,000 virtual desktops
 10 x 300 GB 15 k rpm 3.5-inch SAS disks
Optional for
infrastructure
storage
For 500 virtual desktops
 5 x 300 GB 15 k rpm 3.5-inch SAS disks
For 1,000 virtual desktops
 5 x 300 GB 15 k rpm 3.5-inch SAS disks
For 2,000 virtual desktops
 10 x 300 GB 15 k rpm 3.5-inch SAS disks
Optional for
vCenter
Operations
Manager for
View
Note: EMC recommends configuring at least one hot spare for every 30
drives of a given type. The recommendations above do not include hot
spares.
This section provides guidelines for setting up the storage layer of the
solution to provide high availability and the expected level of
performance.
VMware ESXi provides host-level storage virtualization. It virtualizes the
physical storage and presents the virtualized storage to the virtual
machine.
A virtual machine stores its operating system and all other files related to
the virtual machine activities in a virtual disk. The virtual disk can be one file
or multiple files. VMware uses a virtual SCSI controller to present the virtual
disk to the guest operating system running inside the virtual machine.
Figure 22 on page 83 shows various VMware virtual disk types.
The virtual disk resides in a datastore. Depending on the type used, it can
be either a VMware Virtual Machine File system (VMFS) datastore or an
NFS datastore.
vSphere Storage
Virtualization for
VSPEX