Installation guide

Chapter 1: Introduction

EMC VSPEX End-User Computing: VMware Horizon View 5.3

and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual Desktops

Implementation Guide

Terminology

Table 1 lists the terminology used in this guide.

Terminology Table 1.

Term

Definition

Linked clones

Desktops provisioned as linked clones share a common base

image within a desktop pool and therefore have a minimal storage

footprint.

Reference

architecture

The validated architecture that supports this VSPEX end-user-

computing solution at a particular point of scale—that is, 500,

1,000, or 2,000 virtual desktops.

Reference workload

For VSPEX end-user computing solutions, the reference workload

is defined as a single virtual desktop—the reference virtual

desktop—with the workload characteristics indicated in the Design

Guide. By comparing the customer’s actual usage to this reference

workload, you can extrapolate which reference architecture to

choose as the basis for the customer’s VSPEX deployment.

Refer to the Design Guide for details.

The storage processor (SP) is the compute component of the

storage array. SPs are used for all aspects of data moving into, out

of, and between arrays

VDI

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) decouples the desktop from

the physical machine. In a VDI environment, the desktop operating

system (OS) and applications reside inside a virtual machine

running on a host computer, with data residing on shared storage.

Users access their virtual desktop from any computer or mobile

device over a private network or internet connection.