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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
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Building block for 500 virtual desktops
The first building block can contains up to 500 virtual desktops with ten SAS
drives in a FAST Cache enabled storage pool, as shown in Figure 23.
Figure 23. Storage layout building block for 500 virtual desktops
This is the smallest building block qualified for the VSPEX architecture.
Building block for 1,000 virtual desktops
The second building block can contain up to 1,000 virtual desktops. It
contains 15 SAS drives in a FAST Cache enabled pool as shown in Figure 24.
Figure 24. Storage layout building block for 1,000 virtual desktops
These two building blocks are currently verified on the VNX series and
provide a flexible solution for VSPEX sizing. Table 12 shows a simple list of
the disks required to support different configuration scales, excluding hot
spare needs.
Note: If a configuration is started with the 500 desktop building block, it
can be expanded to the 1,000 desktop building block by adding five
matching SAS drives and allowing the pool to restripe.