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Solution Architectural 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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 Two switch deployment to support redundancy
 Redundant power supplies
 Scalable port density for a minimum of forty 1 GbE or eight 10
GbE ports (for 500 virtual desktops), two 1 GbE and sixteen 10
GbE ports (for 1,000 virtual desktops) or two 1 GbE and thirty-two
10 GbE ports (for 2,000 virtual desktops), distributed for high
availability.
 The appropriate uplink ports for customer connectivity
Use of 10 GbE ports should align with those on the server and storage while
keeping in mind the overall network requirements for this solution and a
level of redundancy to support high availability. Additional server NICs and
storage connections should also be considered based on customer or
specific implementation requirements.
Note: For servers and VNX series array that are connect with FC based
block storage network, use the Brocade Connectrix-B Fibre Channel
switches. The Brocade Connectrix-B FC switches provide the 8 or 16 Gb
ports and exceed the minimum backplane capacity of 96 (for 500 virtual
desktops), 192 (for 1,000 virtual desktops) or 320 (for 2,000 virtual desktops)
Gb/s non-blocking required. (See the configuration procedure described
in Chapter 5.)
The management infrastructure (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and SQL
Server) can be supported on two servers similar to those previously
defined, but will require a minimum of only 48 GB RAM instead of 128 GB.
Disk layout details are provided in Storage configuration guidelines on
page 81.