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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Validation test profile
Table 13 shows the solution stacks that we validated with the environment
profile.
Table 13. Validated environment profile
Profile characteristic
Value
Virtual desktop operating system
Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit) SP1
CPU per virtual desktop
1 vCPU
Number of virtual desktops per CPU
core
8
RAM per virtual desktop
2 GB
Desktop provisioning method
Linked Clones
Average storage available for each
virtual desktop
3 GB (vmdk and vswap)
Average IOPS per virtual desktop at
steady state
10 IOPS
Average peak IOPS per virtual
desktop during boot storm
14 IOPS (File storage)
23 IOPS (Block storage)
Number of datastores to store virtual
desktops
4 for 500 virtual desktops
8 for 1,000 virtual desktops
16 for 2,000 virtual desktops
Number of virtual desktops per
datastore
125
Disk and RAID type for datastores
RAID 5, 300 GB, 15 k rpm, 3.5-inch SAS
disks
Disk and RAID type for CIFS shares to
host user profiles and home
directories (optional)
RAID 6, 2 TB, 7,200 rpm, 3.5-inch NL-SAS
disks
Profile
characteristics