Installation guide

Contents
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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
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 7
Purpose of this guide .................................................................................................. 8
Business value ........................................................................................................... 8
Scope ......................................................................................................................... 9
Audience .................................................................................................................... 9
Terminology.............................................................................................................. 10
Chapter 2 Before You Start 11
Overview .................................................................................................................. 12
Pre-deployment tasks ............................................................................................... 12
Deployment workflow ............................................................................................... 13
Essential reading ...................................................................................................... 13
VSPEX Solution Overview ..................................................................................... 13
VSPEX Design Guide ............................................................................................ 13
VSPEX Proven Infrastructure Guide ...................................................................... 14
EMC Powered Backup for VSPEX guide ................................................................. 14
Deployment prerequisites ........................................................................................ 14
Chapter 3 Solution Overview 17
Overview .................................................................................................................. 18
VSPEX Proven Infrastructures ................................................................................... 18
Solution architecture ................................................................................................ 19
High-level architecture ......................................................................................... 19
Logical architecture ............................................................................................. 21
Summary of key components.................................................................................... 22
Chapter 4 Solution Implementation 23
Overview .................................................................................................................. 24
Network implementation .......................................................................................... 25
Configure the infrastructure network .................................................................... 25
Configure the VLANs ............................................................................................ 27
Configure the storage network (block variant) ...................................................... 27
Complete the network cabling ............................................................................. 28
Prepare and configure the storage array ................................................................... 28
Prepare the VNX ................................................................................................... 29