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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

Figure 27. Core storage layout for 2,000 virtual desktops using VNX5600

Core storage layout overview

The following core configuration is used in the solution:

 Four SAS disks (shown as 0_0_0 to 0_0_3) are used for the VNX OE.

 Disks shown as 0_0_6 and 0_0_7 are hot spares. These disks are

marked as hot spare in the storage layout diagram.

 Fifteen SAS disks (shown as 0_0_10 to 0_0_14 and 1_0_5 to 1_0_14)

in the RAID 5 Storage Pool 0 are used to store virtual desktops.

FAST Cache is enabled for the entire pool.

 For file storage, 10 LUNs of 611 GB each are provisioned from the

pool to provide the storage required to create sixteen 375 GB NFS

file systems and two 50 GB file systems. The file systems are

presented to the vSphere servers as NFS datastores.

 For block storage, 16 LUNs of 375 GB each and 2 LUNs of 50 GB

each are provisioned from the pool to present to the vSphere

servers as 10 VMFS datastores.

Note: Two 50 GB datastores are used to save replica disks

 Four flash drives (shown as 0_0_4 to 0_0_5 and 1_0_0 to 1_0_1) are

used for EMC VNX FAST Cache. There are no user-configurable

LUNs on these drives.

 Disks shown as 0_0_8 to 0_0_9 and 1_0_3 to 1_0_4 were not used

for testing this solution.

Note: If more capacity is desired, larger drives may be substituted. To

satisfy the load recommendations, the drives will all need to be 15 k rpm

and the same size. If differing sizes are used, storage layout algorithms

may give sub-optimal results.