
EMC Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops Enabled by EMC VNX Series,
VMware vSphere 4.1, VMware View 4.5, and VMware View Composer 2.5 Proven Solution Guide
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Hardware and software resources
Chapter 6: Testing and Validation provides more information on the performance
results.
resources
The following table lists the hardware used to validate the solution.
Hardware Quantity Configuration Notes
EMC
VNX5300
1 Three DAEs configured with:
• Twenty one 300 GB 15k rpm
SAS disks
• Fifteen 2 TB 7.2k rpm near-line
SAS disks
• Five 100 GB EFDs
VNX shared storage
Dell
PowerEdge
R710
8
• Memory: 64 GB of RAM
• CPU: Dual Xeon X5550, 2.67
GHz
• NIC: Quad-port Broadcom
BCM5709 1000BASE-T
Virtual desktop ESX
®
cluster
Dell
PowerEdge
2950
2
• Memory: 16 GB of RAM
• CPU: Dual Xeon 5160, 3 GHz
• NIC: Gigabit quad-port Intel VT
Infrastructure virtual
machines (VMware
vCenter™ Server,
DNS, DHCP, Active
Directory, and Routing
and Remote Access
Service (RRAS)
Cisco 6509 1
• WS-6509-E switch
• WS-x6748 1 Gb line cards
• WS-SUP720-3B supervisor
Host connections
distributed over two
line cards
Brocade
DS5100
2 Twenty four 8 Gb ports Redundant SAN A or
SAN B configuration
QLogic HBA 1
• Dual-port QLE2462
• Port 0 – SAN A
• Port 1 – SAN B
One dual-port HBA per
server connected to
both the fabrics
Desktop/
virtual
machines
Each
• Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit
• Memory: 768 MB
• CPU: 1 vCPU
• NIC: e1000 (connectivity)
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