
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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Virtual Edition
PowerPath/VE 5.4.1 supports ESX 4.1. The EMC PowerPath/VE for VMware
vSphere Installation and Administration Guide available on Powerlink provides the
procedure to install and configure PowerPath/VE. There are no special configuration
instructions required for this solution.
The PowerPath/VE binaries and support documentation are available on Powerlink.
Storage components
Storage pools in the EMC VNX OE support heterogeneous drive pools. In this
solution, a 20-disk pool with RAID 5 was configured from 15 SAS disks and five
near-line SAS drives. Four thick LUNs, each 750 GB in size, were created from this
storage pool, as shown in the following figure. FAST Cache was enabled for the
pool.
For each LUN in the storage pool, the tiering policy is set to Highest Available Tier
to ensure that all frequently accessed desktop data remains on the SAS disks. As
data ages and is used infrequently, it is moved to the near-line SAS drives in the
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