Installation guide

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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
Set up the initial VNX configuration ..................................................................... 29
Provision core data storage .................................................................................. 29
Provision storage for VMFS datastores (block only) .............................................. 29
Provision storage for NFS datastores (file only) .................................................... 30
Configure Fast Cache ........................................................................................... 33
Provision optional storage for user data ............................................................... 34
Configure FAST VP for user data ........................................................................... 35
Provision optional storage for infrastructure virtual machines .............................. 37
Setting Virtual Provisioning thresholds and alerts ................................................ 37
Install and configure the vSphere hosts .................................................................... 39
Install vSphere ..................................................................................................... 40
Configure vSphere networking ............................................................................. 40
Connect VMware datastores ................................................................................ 41
Install and configure the SQL Server database .......................................................... 41
VMware vCenter Server deployment ......................................................................... 42
Set up VMware View Connection Server .................................................................... 44
Install VMware View Connection Server ............................................................... 45
Configure the View event log database connection .............................................. 45
Add a replica View Connection Server instance .................................................... 45
Configure the View Composer ODBC connection .................................................. 45
Install View Composer ......................................................................................... 45
Connect VMware Horizon View to vCenter and View Composer ............................ 45
Prepare a master virtual machine ......................................................................... 46
Configure View Persona Management group policies ........................................... 46
Configure folder redirection group policies for EMC Avamar ................................. 46
Configure View PCoIP group policies .................................................................... 47
Provision virtual desktops ........................................................................................ 47
Set up EMC Avamar .................................................................................................. 48
Set up VMware vShield Endpoint .............................................................................. 49
Verify desktop vShield Endpoint driver installation .............................................. 50
Deploy the vShield Manager appliance ................................................................ 50
Install the vShield Endpoint service ..................................................................... 50
Deploy an antivirus solution management server ................................................. 50
Deploy vSphere security virtual machines ............................................................ 50
Verify vShield Endpoint functionality ................................................................... 50
Set up VMware vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon View .................................. 51
Chapter 5 Solution Verification 53
Overview .................................................................................................................. 54