Installation guide

Chapter 1: Introduction
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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
Purpose of this guide
The EMC
®
VSPEX
®
End-User Computing architecture provides the customer with a
modern system capable of hosting a large number of virtual desktops at a consistent
performance level. This VSPEX End-User Computing solution for VMware Horizon
View 5.3 runs on a VMware vSphere virtualization layer backed by the highly
available EMC VNX
®
family, which provides the storage. It is designed to be layered
on a VSPEX Private Cloud for VMware vSphere Proven Infrastructure.
The compute and network components, which are defined by the VSPEX partners, are
designed to be redundant and sufficiently powerful to handle the processing and
data needs of a large virtual machine environment. EMC Avamar
®
backup and
recovery solutions provide data protection for VMware Horizon View data and RSA
®
SecurID
®
provides optional secure user authentication functionality.
This VSPEX End-User-Computing solution is validated at three different points of
scale—500, 1,000, and 2,000 virtual desktops. These validated configurations are
based on a reference desktop workload and form the basis for creating cost-effective,
custom solutions for individual customers. A smaller 250 virtual desktop
environment based on the EMC VNXe
®
3300 is described in EMC VSPEX End-User
Computing: VMware Horizon View 5.2 and VMware vSphere 5.1 for up to 250 Virtual
Desktops Proven Infrastructure Guide .
An end-user computing or virtual desktop infrastructure is a complex system offering.
This Implementation Guide describes how to implement, with best practices, the
resources necessary to deploy an end-user computing solution using VMware Horizon
View for VMware vSphere enabled by EMC next-generation VNX and EMC Powered
Backup.
Business value
Business applications are moving into a consolidated compute, network, and storage
environment. This VSPEX End-User Computing solution with VMware reduces the
complexity of configuring every component of a traditional deployment model. The
solution reduces the complexity of integration management while maintaining
application design and implementation options. It also provides unified
administration, while enabling adequate control and monitoring of process
separation.
The business benefits of the VSPEX End-User Computing solution for VMware Horizon
View include:
 An end-to-end virtualization solution to utilize the capabilities of the unified
infrastructure components
 Efficient virtualization of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for varied customer use
cases
 Reliable, flexible, and scalable reference architectures