Installation guide

Chapter 4: Solution Implementation
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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
Ensure that there are adequate switch ports for the storage array and vSphere hosts.
EMC recommends that you configure the vSphere hosts with a minimum of three
VLANs:
 Client access network: Virtual machine networking and CIFS traffic (these are
customer-facing networks, which can be separated if needed)
 Storage network: NFS/iSCSI/FCoE networking (private network)
 Management network: vSphere management and VMware vMotion (private
network)
The block variant of the solution requires a separate storage network. Here, we used a
Fibre Channel (FC) network as an example. The infrastructure FC network requires
redundant FC switches and links for each vSphere host and the storage array. This
configuration provides both redundancy and additional storage network bandwidth.
We connected each vSphere host to both FC switches, and each switch to each
storage processor on the storage array. We then placed each FC connection between
the vSphere host and the storage array in a separate FC zone.
Figure 5 shows the network architecture of this example.
Sample FC network architecture Figure 5.
Configure the
VLANs
Configure the
storage network
(block variant)