Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions with VMware Horizon View

Desktop IT managers can now benefit from the combined strengths of the Cisco Unified Communications System (Cisco UCS) and VMware Horizon (with View). You can deploy and easily scale virtual desktops, free of the guesswork traditionally associated with sizing, installing, and expanding virtual infrastructure.

We have developed Cisco Validated Designs for many VMware Horizon configurations, investing an average of 2000 hours on each. These design guides will help you in deploying your desktop virtualization solution. You’ll learn, for example, how to engineer the back-end storage and the server infrastructure and how to provision and manage the environment overall.

Customers of all sizes who want to implement desktop virtualization can confidently deploy a "Day 1" infrastructure that provides an optimized balance of memory, I/O capacity, and CPU processing power. The result is a price-to performance ratio that delivers significantly lower incremental costs as virtual desktop seats are added.

Built with VMware Horizon (with View) and Cisco UCS, which offers a stateless provisioning and operations model, the virtual desktop solution is fully integrated with VMware vCenter. It takes full advantage of Cisco UCS Manager and View Manager with linked clones to help organizations deploy new virtual desktops to users in minutes.

Use our Desktop Virtualization Design Navigator to help you find the design guide or reference architecture that best suits your needs.

Recent Cisco Validated Designs and Reference Architectures for Desktop Virtualization with VMware Horizon (with View)

• Cisco Validated Design - July 2016 - FlashStack with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage FlashArray//m for 5000 VMware Horizon View 6.2 Users
• Reference Architecture - January 2016 - Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server with VMware Horizon 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
• Reference Architecture - December 2015 - Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server with Horizon 6 and VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 All-Flash Configuration

Additional Cisco Networking Design Guidance for VMware View

• Cisco Solutions for VMware View Environment Design Guide
• Cisco Application Networking Services for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployment Guide

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