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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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While the choice of servers to implement in the compute layer is flexible, it
is best to use the enterprise class servers designed for data centers. This
type of server has redundant power supplies, as shown in Figure 30. You
should connect them to separate Power Distribution Units (PDUs) in
accordance with your server vendor’s best practices.
Figure 30. Redundant power supplies
We also recommend that you configure high availability in the
virtualization layer. This means that you must configure the compute layer
with enough resources to ensure that the total number of available
resources meets the needs of the environment, even with a server failure.
Figure 29 demonstrates this recommendation.
The advanced networking features of the VNX storage family and
Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabric or Connectrix-B Fibre Channel Family of
switches provide protection against network connection failures at the
array. Each vSphere host has multiple connections to user and storage
Ethernet networks to guard against link failures. These connections should
be spread across multiple Ethernet switches to guard against component
failure in the network. These connections are illustrated in Figure 31 and
Figure 32.
Compute layer
Brocade
Network layer