NetApp-Cisco FlexPod Accelerating XenDesktop...• Greater virtual desktop density without performance impact • Simple Operation—start in minutes, scale in seconds • Massive

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NetApp-Cisco FlexPod™ Accelerating XenDesktop Deployments worldwide

Ken Liska Virtualization Specialist | US Public Sector| NetApp

May 2013

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Virtual Desktop

Delivery Models Corporate Apps

User Installed Apps

User Personality

User Data

VDI Layering

Seamless

data access

on any device

Holistic mobility solution to deliver

Desktops, apps, and data to any device


10GB Ethernet

Hypervisor

Corpor

ate

Apps

User

Installe

d Apps

PVS

vDisk

Write

Cache

File

On-

Demand

Apps

Personal

vDisk (s)

Home

Directori

es

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Win

7 OS

Setting

s/

Profile

User

Data

VM

Blocks CIFS CIFS

XenDesktop 5.6

Profile Management

VSC

FlexClo

ne

VMDK

Blocks/NFS

PVS

Blocks/NFS Blocks/NFS

Hosted VDI + On-Demand Apps

10GB Ethernet

Hypervisor

Corpor

ate

Apps

User

Installe

d Apps

PVS

vDisk

Write

Cache

File

On-

Demand

Apps

Personal

vDisk (s)

Home

Directori

es

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Win

7 OS

Setting

s/

Profile

User

Data

VM

Blocks CIFS CIFS

XenDesktop 5.6

Profile Management

VSC

FlexClo

ne

VMDK

Blocks/NFS

PVS


Hosted Shared + On-Demand Apps

+ +

User Types

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Backups

Disaster Recovery

CIFS

Seamless

data access

on any device


10GB Ethernet

Hypervisor

Corporate

Apps

User

Installed

Apps

PVS vDisk Write

Cache File

On-Demand

Apps Personal vDisk

(s) Home

Directories

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Win 7

OS

Settings/

Profile User Data

VM

Blocks CIFS CIFS

XenDesktop 5.6

Profile Management

VSC

FlexClone

VMDK

Blocks/NFS

PVS



10GB Ethernet

Hypervisor

Corporate

Apps

User

Installed

Apps

PVS vDisk Write

Cache File

On-Demand

Apps Personal vDisk

(s) Home

Directories

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Win 7

OS

Settings/

Profile User Data

VM

Blocks CIFS CIFS

XenDesktop 5.6

Profile Management

VSC

FlexClone

VMDK

Blocks/NFS

PVS



CIFS

+ +

All User Types

Storage Architecture

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Backups

Disaster Recovery

Complex

and

requires

lots of resources


Intelligent Data Center Platform

• End to end solution

• Cost efficiency and performance

• Simplified deployment and management

• Prescriptive scalability


Cisco® UCS B and C-Series Servers

w/ UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus®

Family Switches

NetApp® Unified Storage

10GE and FCoE

Features

Standard, prevalidated, best-in-class converged platform

Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit many mixed

workloads

Benefits

Flexibility

Built-in data center efficiencies

Reduced risk

Co-operative support model


2000+ FlexPod customers in over a year

33+ countries

500+ active partners

20+ validated solutions based on CVDs

One of the most popular workload on

FlexPod is Desktop Virtualization


• XenDesktop tends to be a net-new project requiring new

infrastructure

• Tested, Validated and IT WORKS!

• Scalability and predictability requirements

• Phased approach for desktop deployments

fits FlexPod model

• Backed by Cisco Validated Designs

1500 3000 4500 Users


The Optimized Platform for Desktop Virtualization

Me

mo

ry

CPU

Unified Fabric (FCoE)

• Lower cost for compute + network infrastructure

• Greater virtual desktop density without performance impact

• Simple Operation—start in minutes, scale in seconds

• Massive Scalability—scales easily to 1000’s of desktops per UCS system

• Extended memory and I/O to avoid desktop virtualization bottlenecks

Cisco UCS


Cost Efficiency

Simplicity

Intelligent Backup and

DR

Performance

Read and write

IO optimization

Storage Efficiency

Integrations Sizing tools

NetApp Clustered ONTAP


10GB Ethernet

Hypervisor

Corporate Apps User Installed

Apps

PVS vDisk Write Cache

File On-Demand Apps Personal vDisk (s) Home Directories

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Win 7 OS Settings/ Profile User Data

VM

Blocks CIFS CIFS

XenDesktop 5.6

Profile Management

VSC

FlexClone

VMDK

Blocks/NFS

PVS



10GB Ethernet

Hypervisor

Corporate Apps User Installed

Apps

PVS vDisk Write Cache

File On-Demand Apps Personal vDisk (s) Home Directories

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Win 7 OS Settings/ Profile User Data

VM

Blocks CIFS CIFS

XenDesktop 5.6

Profile Management

VSC

FlexClone

VMDK

Blocks/NFS

PVS



+ +

Local VM

Corporate Apps

On-Demand Apps Home Directories

User Data

VM

CIFS CIFS

+

Seamless

data delivery

Control Systems

Storage System

DB Server

NAS

NetApp Clustered ONTAP

OS Apps Data Profiles


12

Up to

1000 VMs

in 2U

Non-persistent desktops (pooled streamed with PVS)

• 5GB for PVS write cache file (0% dedupe)

• 2GB for VM memory (0% dedupe)

• 10-12 IOPS (95% writes) to write cache file

FAS2240-2 w/ 24 internal SAS disks

(600GB; 10K RPM)


13

Hosted Shared Desktops (XenApp)

- Roaming Profiles

- Redirected Folders

Pooled Streamed Desktops (1 VM/user)

- Local Profiles


Hosted Shared Desktops (XenApp)

- Mandatory Profiles


Pooled Streamed Desktops (1 VM/user)

- Roaming Profiles


1

2

3

4

FAS2240HA

# of drives Max. # of

desktops

112

3200

112

3200

54

1400

54

1400

FAS3250HA

# of

drives

Max. # of

desktops

67

4500

67

4500

84

3000

84

3000

DS4243 shelves with 600GB 15K RPM disks

FAS3250 config includes total two 512GB FlashCache


14

FAS2240HA

# of

drives

Max. # of

desktops

50

1600

60

1300

FAS3250HA

# of

drives

Max. # of

desktops

100

3500

109

2900

Personal Streamed Desktops

(1 VM/user)

- Roaming Profiles


- User installed apps persistent

across sessions

Personal Streamed Desktops

(1 VM/user)

- Local Profiles & Folders

- User installed apps persistent

across sessions

5

6

DS4243 shelves with 600GB 15K RPM disks

FAS3250 config includes total two 512GB FlashCache


• XenDesktop on vSphere

• XenDesktop on XenServer

• XenDesktop on FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud

Avalon Excalibur on FlexPod CVDs available soon!

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns955/ns1099/solution_overview_c22-685419.pdf




http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_xd56_flexpod.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_xd56_flexpod.html


6000 Virtual Desktops

Ease of deployment and management

Increased IT staff productivity with FlexPod

Easy & dynamic transition of workloads from private to public cloud Major Australian construction company

8 Corporate locations

100+ project site locations

Large scale datacenter transformation

26,500 students

300+ degree programs

9,800 faculty and staff members

Previous environment included 181 PCs

and 43 Mac workstations

Students and staff have 24x7 access to eLearning

Higher degree of flexibility and availability of technology enhances

student productivity

Competitive advantage in attracting new students

Lowered IT energy use


End to end solution for desktop virtualization

• Pre-validated

• Cost efficiency and performance

• Simplified deployment and management

• Prescriptive scalability

Thank you.


Assessment Sizing using NetApp

SPM

Customer requirements

• # of desktops

• Capacity

• Memory Size

• Perf Requirements

• Read/write ratio

• Random vs seq.

spm.netapp.com

Assessment using free license of Liquidware Labs Stratusphere software:

https://fieldportal.netapp.com/Core/DownloadDoc.aspx?documentID=57141&contentID=67779




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NetApp-Cisco FlexPod Accelerating XenDesktop...• Greater virtual desktop density without performance impact • Simple Operation—start in minutes, scale in seconds • Massive