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Solution Overview
VMware Horizon View 5.3 and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual
Desktops Enabled by Brocade Network Fabrics, EMC VNX, and EMC Next-
Generation Backup
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The desktop solutions described in this document are based on the EMC
VNX5400™ and EMC VNX5600™ storage arrays respectively. The VNX5400
can support a maximum of 250 drives and the VNX5600 can host up to 500
drives.
The EMC VNX series supports a wide range of business class features ideal
for the end-user computing cloud environment, including:
 EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP™)
 EMC FAST™ Cache
 File-level data deduplication/compression
 Block deduplication
 Thin provisioning
 Replication
 Snapshots/checkpoints
 File-level retention
 Quota management
The EMC VNX flash-optimized unified storage platform delivers innovation
and enterprise capabilities for file, block, and object storage in a single,
scalable, and easy-to-use solution. Ideal for mixed workloads in physical or
virtual environments, VNX combines powerful and flexible hardware with
advanced efficiency, management, and protection software to meet the
demanding needs of today’s virtualized application environments.
VNX includes many features and enhancements designed and built upon
the first generation’s success. These features and enhancements include:
 More capacity with multicore optimization with Multicore Cache,
Multicore RAID, and Multicore FAST Cache (MCx™)
 Greater efficiency with a flash-optimized hybrid array
 Better protection by increasing application availability with
active/active
 Easier administration and deployment by increasing productivity
with new Unisphere
®
Management Suite
VSPEX is built with Next-Generation VNX to deliver even greater efficiency,
performance, and scale than ever before.
Flash-optimized hybrid array
VNX is a flash-optimized hybrid array that provides automated tiering to
deliver the best performance to your critical data, while intelligently
moving less frequently accessed data to lower-cost disks.
In this hybrid approach, a small percentage of flash drives in the overall
system can provide a high percentage of the overall IOPS. Flash-optimized
VNX takes full advantage of the low latency of flash to deliver cost-saving
EMC Next-
Generation VNX