
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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VMware View 4.5
VMware View delivers rich and personalized virtual desktops as a managed service
from a virtualization platform built to deliver the entire desktop, including the
operating system, applications, and user data. With VMware View 4.5, desktop
administrators can virtualize the operating system, applications, and user data, and
deliver modern desktops to end users. VMware View 4.5 provides centralized
automated management of these components with increased control and cost
savings. VMware View 4.5 improves business agility while providing a flexible high-
performance desktop experience for end users across a variety of network
VMware View
components
This solution is deployed using a single View Manager server instance that is
capable of scaling up to 2,000 virtual desktops. Deployments of up to 10,000 virtual
desktops are possible by using multiple View Manager servers.
The core elements of a VMware View 4.5 implementation are:
• View Manager Connection Server
• View Composer 2.5
• vSphere 4.1
Additionally, the following components are required to provide the infrastructure for a
View 4.5 deployment:
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft SQL Server
• DNS Server
•
Connection
Server
The View Manager Connection Server is the central management location for virtual
desktops and has the following key roles:
• Broker connections between users and virtual desktops
• Control the creation and retirement of virtual desktop images
• Assign users to desktops
• Control the state of the virtual desktops
•
Control access to the virtual desktops
2.5
View Composer 2.5 works directly with vCenter Server to deploy, customize, and
maintain the state of the virtual desktops when using linked clones. The tiered
storage capabilities of View Composer 2.5 allow the read-only replica and the linked
clone disk images to be on the dedicated storage. This allows superior scaling in
large configurations.
linked clones
VMware View with View Composer 2.5 uses the concept of linked clones to quickly
provision virtual desktops. This solution uses the tiered storage feature of View
Composer to build linked clones and place their replica images on separate data
stores as shown in the following diagram:
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