Technical data

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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 For block storage, 8 LUNs of 369 GB each and 2 LUNs of 50 GB
each are provisioned from the pool to present to the vSphere
servers as 10 VMFS datastores.
Note: Two 50 GB datastores are used to save replica disks.
 Two flash drives (shown as 0_0_4 to 0_0_5) are used for EMC VNX
FAST Cache. There are no user-configurable LUNs on these drives.
 Disks shown as 0_0_8 to 0_0_9 and 1_0_0 to 1_0_4 are unused and
were not used for testing this solution.
Note: If more capacity is desired, larger drives may be substituted. To
satisfy the load recommendations, the drives will all need to be 15 k rpm
and the same size. If you use different sizes, storage layout algorithms
may give sub-optimal results.
Optional user data storage layout
In solution validation testing, storage space for user data was allocated on
the VNX array as shown in Figure 26. This storage is in addition to the core
storage shown above. If storage for user data exists elsewhere in the
production environment, this storage is not required.
Figure 26. Optional storage layout for 1,000 virtual desktops using
VNX5400
Optional storage layout overview
The following optional configuration is used in the solution:
 Disks shown as 0_0_9 and 1_0_4 are hot spares. These disks are
marked as hot spare in the storage layout diagram.