Installation guide

Chapter 4: Solution Implementation

EMC VSPEX End-User Computing: VMware Horizon View 5.3

and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual Desktops

Implementation Guide

Chapter 4 Solution Implementation

This chapter presents the following topics:

Overview .................................................................................................................. 24

Network implementation .......................................................................................... 25

Prepare and configure the storage array .................................................................. 28

Install and configure the vSphere hosts ................................................................... 39

Install and configure the SQL Server database ......................................................... 41

VMware vCenter Server deployment ......................................................................... 42

Set up VMware View Connection Server ................................................................... 44

Provision virtual desktops........................................................................................ 47

Set up EMC Avamar .................................................................................................. 48

Set up VMware vShield Endpoint ............................................................................. 49

Set up VMware vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon View ................................. 51