EMC VNX STORAGE FOR VMWARE

HORIZON VIEW Deploy End User Computing affordably – at scale

ESSENTIALS

Affordable

• Deploy up to 500 virtual desktops starting under $12K

• FAST Suite lowers EUC capex/opex ($/IOPS and $/GB)

Powerful

• Boot 1,000 VMware Horizon View desktops on VNX in as few as 7 minutes

• Absorb up to 80% of desktop “storm” IOs with FAST Cache

Efficient

• Support for all leading virtualization hypervisors

• Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) removes complexity and accelerates VMware Horizon View provisioning

Proven

• Accelerate VMware Horizon View deployment with validated reference architectures, solution guides, & sizing tools

OPTIMIZE END USER COMPUTING End User Computing (EUC) adoption is rapidly growing as businesses of all sizes

realize the benefits that a virtual desktop infrastructure can deliver. At the center of

the discussion is storage. It’s essential that a storage infrastructure be able to cost-

effectively deliver on EUC requirements for adequate capacity, IO performance, and

low latency demands - all while preserving the quality of the end user experience at

a reasonable cost. EMC® VNX® and VNXe® unified storage change the way that IT

works by providing high performance, scalability, and ease of use for centrally

managed desktops anywhere on the network.

EMC VNX UNIFIED STORAGE EMC VNX and VNXe are an ideal choices for VMWare® Horizon View™ because

they’re designed for performance at scale, efficiency, and easy to deploy and

manage. These VNX flash-optimized storage systems with multi-core optimization

deliver outstanding desktop performance at scale, support 100’s to 1000’s of

Horizon View desktops, and provide a unified (multi-protocol) platform for flexibly

configuring your virtual desktop VMs and user data requirements on the same

system. The power of the VNX Flash 1st design with multi-core optimization enables

you to efficiently run Horizon View in a mixed virtual application workload

environment. VNX/VNXe are optimized for virtualization, supporting Horizon View on

leading hypervisors (VMware, Microsoft, Citrix). VNX and VNXe combined with the

EMC FAST™ Suite unleash the power of flash technology optimizing the performance

of Horizon View environments while reducing TCO (cost/GB & cost/IOPS).

FAST SUITE: DESKTOP PERFORMANCE AT SCALE It’s essential that a storage infrastructure optimize read and write activities to

handle peak EUC workloads such as boot storms, AV scans, and patching. In a

traditional storage environment, customers would need to buy and provision

hundreds of high-performance drives to meet these workload demands. EMC Fully

Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) Cache leverages Flash technology to optimize

performance at scale and maximize storage efficiency by absorbing up to 80% of

IOs from desktop “storms” allowing Horizon View to scale from 100’s to 1000’s of

users. FAST Cache automatically moves hot data to flash drives for best

performance and to absorb spikes in I/O demand. It provides an all-flash layer of

cache for the most active data and then monitors usage patterns so that it can

intelligently and automatically move data in and out of this layer based on demand.

With just a little bit of Flash and FAST Cache, you can boot 1,000 Horizon View

desktops on a VNX Series system in as little as seven minutes while lowering

$/IOPS and $/GB.

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

EFFICIENCY As businesses deploy Horizon View, large scale desktop creation/cloning and

registration operations become complex management tasks involving multiple user

interfaces and skill sets. EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) is an EMC plug-in

framework for VMware vSphere™ 5 with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Used with

VNX, it simplifies and automates the creation/provisioning and registration of multiple

VMware virtual desktop machines. It leverages VNX and VNXe storage efficiency

technologies (exploiting the fact that most desktops are using less than 50% of their

local storage capacity) to deploy desktops from a single master virtual machine, store

Master and Desktop virtual machines in a NFS Datastore, and delivers a single pane of

glass for viewing virtualization and storage array metrics.

FLEXIBILITY The VNX and VNXe support multiple protocols, giving you the flexibility in a single

storage platform to configure and consolidate your Horizon View environment, whether

it requires NFS, iSCSI, FCoE, or FC for your infrastructure VMs and user data file

shares. This allows you to choose the best combination of block and file storage for

your Horizon View environment that meets your performance and cost requirements.

VSPEX VSPEX® the industry leading reference architecture - delivers Proven Infrastructures

delivered by EMC channel partners to provide simple, efficient, and flexible

deployments for 100’s to 1000’s of VMware Horizon View virtual desktops on VNX and

VNXe. These proven infrastructures are well documented with reference architectures,

sizing and deployment guides and sizing tools - enabling any size customer to bring a

VMware Horizon View environment to full production in the shortest possible time

tnefficiently and affordably.

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