
EMC Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops Enabled by EMC VNX, VMware vSphere 4.1,
VMware View 4.5, and VMware View Composer 2.5
Conclusion
Summary
EMC’s VNX platform along with VMware View enables customers to host virtual desktops
economically and minimize the risk of exposure of data. The presented solution highlights
the design guidelines for hosting 2,000 users on EMC VNX5700 and uses advanced
technologies like EMC FAST VP and EMC FAST Cache to optimize the performance for the
virtual desktop environment.
Findings
We confirmed the following key results during the testing of this solution:
By using FAST Cache and VAAI, the time to concurrently boot all 2,000 desktops to a
usable start was reduced by 25 percent.
By using a VAAI-enabled storage platform, we are able to store up to 512 virtual
machines compared to 64 virtual machines per LUN without VAAI-enabled storage.
Using Flash as FAST Cache for the read and write I/O operations reduced the number of
spindles needed to support the required IOPS.
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