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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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Optional user data storage layout
In solution validation testing, storage space for user data was allocated on
the VNX array as shown in Figure 28. This storage is in addition to the core
storage shown above. If storage for user data exists elsewhere in the
production environment, this storage is not required.
Figure 28. Optional storage layout for 2,000 virtual desktops using
VNX5600
Optional storage layout overview
The following optional configuration is used in the solution:
 Disks shown as 0_0_9 and 1_0_4 are hot spares. These disks are
marked as hot spare in the storage layout diagram.
 Five SAS disks (shown as 1_2_0 to 1_2_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.
 Ten SAS disks (shown as 1_2_5 to 1_2_14) in the RAID 5 Storage
Pool 3 are used to store the vCenter Operations Manager for
View virtual machines and databases. A 2.0 TB LUN or NFS file