IBM and VMware released a Reference Architecture titled: "IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View". The paper, which contains 52 pages and describes the reference architecture for using VMware View 5.1 on the ESXi 5 hypervisor. It
gives an architecture overview and component model of the VMware View and then describes the deployment model of VMware View using different number of users on a variety of IBM® hardware platforms including IBM Flex System, IBM PureFlex System, IBM System x, IBM networking, and IBM storage.
The paper contains the following sections:
- Introduction
- Architectural overview
- Component model
- VMware View provisioning
- Storage model
- Operational model
- Compute servers for virtual desktops
- Compute server for hosted shared desktops
- Management servers
- Systems management
- Shared storage
- Networking
- Deployment models
- Bill of materials
- Resources