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
Table 12 lists information about thresholds and their settings for VNX Operating
Environment (OE) for Block Release 33.
VNX thresholds and settings Table 12.
Threshold type
Threshold range
Threshold default
Alert severity
Side effect
User settable
1%-84%
70%
Warning
None
Built-in
N/A
85%
Critical
Clears user
settable alert
Note: Allowing total allocation to exceed 90 percent of total capacity puts you at risk of
running out of space and affecting all applications that use thin LUNs in the pool.
Install and configure the vSphere hosts
This section provides information about installing and configuring the vSphere hosts
and infrastructure servers required to support the architecture. Table 13 describes the
tasks to be completed.
Tasks for server installation Table 13.
Task
Description
Reference
Install vSphere
Install the vSphere hypervisor
on the physical servers
deployed for the solution.
vSphere Installation and Setup
Guide
Configure vSphere
networking
Configure vSphere networking
including network interface
card (NIC) trunking, VMkernel
ports, and virtual machine
port groups and jumbo
frames.
vSphere Networking
Add vSphere hosts
to VNX storage
groups (block
variant)
Add the vSphere hosts to the
storage groups created in
Prepare and configure the
storage array.
EMC Online Support
Connect VMware
datastores
Connect the VMware
datastores to the vSphere
hosts deployed for the
solution.
vSphere Storage Guide