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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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Figure 31.  Brocade Network layer High-Availability (VNX) – block storage 
network variant 
Figure 32.  Brocade Network layer High-Availability (VNX) - file storage 
network variant 
By ensuring that there are no single points of failure in the network layer 
you can ensure that the compute layer is able to access storage and 
communicate with users even if a component fails. 
The VNX family is designed for five 9s availability by using redundant 
components throughout the array as shown in Figure 33. All of the array 
components are capable of continued operation in case of hardware 
failure. The RAID disk configuration on the array provides protection 
against data loss due to individual disk failures, and you can dynamically 
allocate the available hot spare drives to replace a failing disk. 
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