Installation guide
Chapter 2: Before You Start
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EMC VSPEX End-User Computing: VMware Horizon View 5.3
and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual Desktops
Implementation Guide
Overview
This chapter provides an overview of important information of which you need to be
aware, documents with which you need to be familiar, and tasks you need to perform
before you start implementing your VSPEX End-User Computing with VMware Horizon
View solution.
The Design Guide for this solution—
EMC VSPEX End-User Computing: VMware Horizon
View 5.3 and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual Desktops
—describes how to
design and size your solution, allocate resources following best practices, and use all
the benefits that VSPEX offers. The deployment examples in this Implementation
Guide are based on the recommendations and examples in the Design Guide.
Pre-deployment tasks
Pre-deployment tasks include procedures that do not directly relate to environment
installation and configuration, but you will need the results from these tasks at the
time of installation. Examples of pre-deployment tasks are collection of host names,
IP addresses, VLAN IDs, license keys, installation media, and so on. You should
perform these tasks before the customer visit to reduce the amount of time required
on site.
Tasks for pre-deployment Table 2.
Task
Description
Reference
Gather
documents
Gather the related documents listed in
Essential reading and Reference
Documentation. These are used throughout
this document to provide details on setup
procedures, sizing, and deployment best
practices for the various components of the
solution.
Essential reading
Reference
Documentation
Gather tools
Gather the required and optional tools for
the deployment. Use Table 4 to confirm
that all equipment, software, and
appropriate licenses are available before
the deployment process.
Deployment prerequisites
checklist
Gather data
Collect the customer-specific configuration
data for networking, arrays, accounts, and
so on. Enter this information into the
Customer Configuration Worksheet for
reference during the deployment process.
In addition, for the most comprehensive
array-specific information, complete the
relevant VNX worksheet. These worksheets
are available on EMC Online Support.
VNX Block Configuration
Worksheet
VNX Installation
Assistant for
File/Unified Worksheet
Customer Configuration
Worksheet