So what exactly can you do in 16 minutes? Well, you can:
Don't care about any of those things? Neither do I. Let me come back to this in a moment...
If you're familiar with our architecture portfolio for desktop virtualization, you may be aware that we're continuing to invest in VSPEX-based reference architectures for Cisco Desktop Virtualization. This week, we just announced the latest addition to the Cisco Validated Design (CVD) portfolio -our solution forVMware Horizon View 5.3 with Cisco UCS and EMC VSPEXavailablehere.
If you're not already familiar with them, CVD's provide prescriptive design guidance around how to build solutions with specific outcomes (performance) as documented through a testing/documentation discipline that Cisco's been doing for years. You'll find our repository of desktop virtualization CVD'shere.
So now let's talk about the CVD itself. Our principal author is Ramesh Guduru -he's a Virtualization Systems Engineer in Cisco's Data Center Business Group and has extensive experience in Horizon View, virtualization infrastructure and management, Cisco UCS and storage. Ramesh assembled a test platform based on the setup shown inFigure 1.
Figure 1: Cisco CVD Validation PlatformAs you can see the core pillars of the solution are:
Key things we wanted to expose/profile in this effort included: