VMware VIEW 4.5 - ARCHITECTURE PLANNING EN-000350-00 Manual page 47

Table 4-11. Example of a VMware View Pod
Item
View building blocks
View Connection Servers
10Gb Ethernet module
Modular networking switch
Load-balancing module
VPN for WAN
The network core load balances incoming requests across View Connection Server instances. Support for a
redundancy and failover mechanism, usually at the network level, prevents the load balancer from becoming
a single point of failure. For example, the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) communicates with the
load balancer to add redundancy and failover capability.
If a View Connection Server instance fails or becomes unresponsive during an active session, users do not lose
data. Desktop states are preserved in the virtual machine desktop so that users can connect to a different View
Connection Server instance and their desktop session resumes from where it was when the failure occurred.
Figure 4-2 shows how all the components can be integrated into one manageable entity.
Figure 4-2. Pod Diagram for 10,000 View Desktops
VMware View
building blocks
switched networks
VMware View
Connection Servers
VMware, Inc.
Each switched network connects to each View Connection Server
load balancing
network core
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