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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Five SAS disks (shown as 1_1_0 to 1_1_4) in the RAID 5 Storage
Pool 2 are used to store the infrastructure virtual machines. A 1.0
TB LUN or NFS file system is provisioned from the pool to present to
the vSphere servers as a VMFS or NFS datastore.
Five SAS disks (shown as 1_1_5 to 1_1_9) in the RAID 5 Storage
Pool 3 are used to store the vCenter Operations Manager for
View virtual machines and databases. A 1.0 TB LUN or NFS file
system is provisioned from the pool to present to the vSphere
servers as a VMFS or NFS datastore.
Sixteen NL-SAS disks (shown as 0_0_8 and 0_1_0 to 0_1_14) in the
RAID 6 Storage Pool 1 are used to store user data and profiles.
Ten LUNs of 600 GB each are provisioned from the pool to
provide the storage required to create four CIFS file systems.
Disks shown as 1_0_0 to 1_0_3 and 1_1_10 to 1_1_14 are unused
and not used for testing this solution.
Disks shaded gray are required and part of the core storage
layout.
If multiple drive types have been implemented, FAST VP may be enabled
to automatically tier data to balance differences in performance and
capacity.
Note: Do not use FAST VP for virtual desktop datastores. FAST VP can
provide performance improvements when implemented for user data
and roaming profiles.
VNX shared file systems
Virtual desktops use four shared file systems—two for the VMware Horizon
View Persona Management repositories and two to redirect user storage
that resides in home directories. In general, redirecting users’ data out of
the base image to VNX for File enables centralized administration, backup
and recovery, and makes the desktops more stateless. Each file system is
exported to the environment through a CIFS share. Each persona
management repository share and home directory share serves 500 users.
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Core storage layout
Figure 27 illustrates the layout of the disks that are required to store 2,000
desktop virtual machines. This layout does not include space for user
profile data. Refer to VNX shared file systems for more information.