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Server and Desktop Virtualisation:

Addressing the Challenges Ed English

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• Virtualisation drivers

• Introducing the Cisco Unified Computing System with Intel® Xeon® processors

• Top server and desktop virtualisation challenges … and how Cisco and Intel® can help

• Summary

• Call to Action

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Business Owners, CIO’s

• Employee Productivity / Business Agility

• Global Competitiveness

• Risk Mitigation / Compliance

IT: Server & Desktop Managers

• Control / Manageability, Cost

• Device Proliferation, Security

• Deployment Speed and Agility

End Users

• Uncompromised Experience

• Anywhere, Anytime Accessibility

• Any Device (tablets, smartphones, bring-your-own)

• Virtualising mission

critical apps

• Journey to automation

and cloud

• Bring Your Own Device

• Data Leakage/Loss

Prevention

• Mobile Workers

• Windows 7 Migration

• Geographically Dispersed

Resources


Data Center Collaborative Workspace Borderless Network

End-to-End Management and Optimization

WAAS

Identity

Services

Engine

CDN

Routing

Switching

MS Office

Nexus 1000v

Security Gateway

Desktop Virtualisation Software

Storage

Applications/Desktop OS

ACE

WAAS

Hypervisor

UC Mgr

Cisco Collaboration Apps

UCS*

ASA

Thin & Zero

Clients

Cius Business Tablet

VXC 4000

PC Client

AnyConnect

Tablets Smart Phones

Virtualised End-to-End Solution

Laptops Desktops

Ultrabooks An

y a

pp

, a

ny d

ata

, a

ny d

evic

e, a

ny

media…Anywhere!

* Cisco UCS is powered by Intel® Xeon® processors


Virtual Desktops

Terminal Services

App Virtualisation

Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure (VDI)

Desktop Streaming

Built on the industry’s fastest growing

data center virtualisation platform

Virtual Workspaces

Virtual Desktops + ... Rich Media (Voice + Video)

Unified Communications

Network-Optimized

Performance

End-to-End Security

Built with the industry’s leading

collaboration, networking and security

architectures

VXI provides the platform for

desktop virtualisation ▼

▲While offering the solution

for virtual workspaces

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• Unified Infrastructure: compute,

networking, virtualisation, storage

access, management software

• Management Automation: UCS

Manager and Service Profiles

across blade and rack servers

• Ideal for enterprise applications:

proven for both bare metal and

virtualised enterprise deployments

• Design flexibility: scale across

systems and across data centers

• Ideal Cloud Infrastructure: UCS

is winning the cloud build-out (72%

of top 50 cloud providers)

• UCS $1.3 billion annualized

revenue run rate (CQ4-2011)

• #2 US blade server market share

with 19%

• #3 WW blade server market

share with 12%

• Nearly 11,000 UCS customers

• 2,000 UCS channel partners;

838 achieved Data Center

Specialization Certification

• 44 ISVs and counting writing to

Cisco UCS API

TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP MARKET MOMENTUM


Top Performance / $,

Energy Efficiency, &

Flexibility

for Infrastructure Apps E5 Family

Xeon E5-2600

Scalable Performance,

Flexibility, & Advanced

RAS for Demanding

Apps / Consolidation E7

Family

Xeon 7500 &

Xeon 6500

7000 Sequence

Xeon E7-4800 &

2800

E7 Family

NEW

!


Powered by Intel® Xeon® E5 Processor Family

UCS B200 M3 Performance-Optimized Enterprise

Blade Server

3rd generation of Cisco UCS compute architecture

Intel E5-2600 Xeon

Dual socket, 16 cores

Support for up to 768GB addressable RAM

2 mezzanine adapter slots

Up to 80 Gb/s I/O

2 disk drives (SAS/SATA/SSD) (up to 1.2 TB)

New enterprise-class blade server optimised for virtualisation, delivering consistently high performance and linear scalability

• UCS Advantages: Unified Fabric; UCS Manager; Optimized for virtualised environments; Adapter_FEX and VM_FEX

NEW

!


Higher is better

Increase your consolidation ratios with the Cisco UCS B200 M3 server with Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family

Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those

factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully eva luating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.

Source: Best available publications/submissions as of 6 March 2012

Configuration Details: Please reference slide speaker notes and back up slides

For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance

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Best

Published

http://www.intel.com/performance


1. How can I improve server and desktop consolidation ratios?

2. How to improve vSphere host reliability?

3. How can I speed up provisioning of virtual infrastructure?

4. How can I improve virtual network visibility and security?

5. How to improve multi-tenant security?

6. How do I guarantee application performance over the network?

7. How do I scale network bandwidth as my virtual infrastructure grows?

8. How do I reduce risk associated with my virtualisation project?


Me

mo

ry

CPU

Unified Fabric (FCoE)

• Intel® Xeon® processor E5 or E7 families for best virtualisation performance

• Lower cost for compute + network infrastructure

• Greater virtual machine/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 virtualisation bottlenecks

http://bit.ly/xQ79Pa

Cisco UCS

http://bit.ly/e9PM9K


STATUS: GOOD

*Requires Cisco UCS servers with Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family and VMware vSphere 5.0

ESXi 5.0

VM

STATUS: GOOD

ESXi 5.0

VM VM VM VM

VM VM VM VM VM

VM VM VM VM VM

VM VM VM VM VM

Non MCA system Cisco C460 M2

C260 M2

B230 M2

B430 M2

CORRECTABLE MEMORY ERROR CORRECTABLE MEMORY ERROR ERROR LOGGED FOR PFA ERROR LOGGED FOR PFA STATUS: GOOD STATUS: GOOD UNCORRECTABLE MEMORY ERROR UNCORRECTABLE MEMORY ERROR REPORT TO ESXi REPORT TO ESXi ISOLATE ERROR PURPLE SCREEN OF DEATH RESTART FAILED VM IN POOL REBOOT SERVER MARK MEMORY LOCATION BAD VM GETS RESTARTED

VM

ESXi 5.0


• Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings

• Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components

• Service profile templates allow rapid provisioning of new virtual servers

Chassis-8/Blade-4 Chassis-1/Blade-2

Profile 1 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b…

MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC

WWN: 5080020000075740

Boot Order: SAN, PXE

Profile 2 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5d…

MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FF

WWN: 5080020000075742

Boot Order: SAN

Cisco UCS

Manager

Profile 3 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5f…

MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FB

WWN: 5080020000075744

Boot Order: PXE, SAN

LAN SAN

Desktop Profile 1 120 Knowledge | HVD Win 7

B-250 192GB

LAN Connectivity

SAN Connectivty

Boot Order

Desktop Profile 2 140 Task | ThinAppOLTP

B-200 48GB

LAN Connectivity

SAN Connectivity

Boot Order

Desktop Profile 3 100 Power | HVD Win 7

B-230 384GB

LAN Connectivity

SAN Connectivity

Boot Order


Cisco IA for Cloud

• Rich, comparative e-commerce

system to manage virtual,

physical, and professional

services.

• Orchestration of all datacenter

resources required to support

vCloud

• Lifecycle support for all major

vCloud objects

• The ability to orchestrate value-

added services to vApps, such as

service assurance, monitoring,

back up, DR, patch and others

• Support tiers of service and pricing

models

vCD

• Pre-built virtual datacenter models

to accelerate deployment

• vCloud API - interface to building

new management solutions and

integrating existing ones with

VMware cloud infrastructure

• Transfer workloads between

private, public and hybrid clouds

with VMware vCloud Connector

• Chargeback to enable LOB

owners to have full cost

transparency and accountability

for self-service resource requests


Software

Switch

VM-FEX (Hypervisor Bypass)

High Performance Virtual Networks

High Performance IO for Blade Servers

Industry’s 1st 80 Gbps to the blade solution

Form Factor agnostic workload placement

High Performance IO for Virtual Machines

Virtualise high performance workloads

Throughput

Application

Performance

Latency

Up to 10% more throughput at 30%

lower CPU utilization compared to a

software switch

Up to 40% lower end-to-end latency

than a software switch

Up to 15% more performance

(Database workload)


VM VM VM VM

Isolate Intel® Virtualisation and Intel® Trusted Execution

Technology (Intel® TXT) work together to better

isolate VMs

Measure Intel® TXT measures vSphere 5.0 for launch

protection

Encrypt Intel® New instructions in Intel® Xeon® processors

quickly encrypts data in flight and at rest

VMware vSphere 5.0

*Intel® TXT available on Cisco UCS M3 Servers


2x 4 Link 80 Gbps per Chassis

2x 8 Links 160 Gbps per Chassis



Wire Once Architecture

Policy-Driven Bandwidth Allocation

Virtual Interface Granularity

I/O On- Demand via

Service Profile


Silver Pool

30% Bandwidth

FC with max burst 32k

Bronze Pool

20% Bandwidth

FC with max burst of 16K

Platinum Pool

50% Bandwidth

Lossless Ethernet NFS

Max burst 64K

• QoS controls for tuning Storage & Network flows—Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, best effort, FC QoS Classes

• Multi-cast optimizations

• Bandwidth controls

• Lossless Ethernet—drop/no drop

• Burst size controls

UCS*

Server

Blade

VMware vSphere

Cisco VIC

FEX 2200

FI 6200

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Bronze Pool Platinum Pool Silver Pool

* Cisco UCS is powered by Intel® Xeon® processors



VBLOCK FLEXPOD

Compute

Network

Virtualisation

Operating Systems

Applications

Information


Metro Health Oak Hills SD Seattle

University

Video: http://bit.ly/w4FkZJ Study: http://bit.ly/aSo37F Study: http://bit.ly/yEDPjE

Challenge:

• Outdated technology for students

• Disproportional ratio of devices to

students

Results:

• Nearly 1:1 ratio of smart devices to

students

• Unlimited access to school projects

and programs

• Increased student efficiency and

productivity on assignments

Challenge:

• Short desktop lifecycles, difficult app

management, high OPEX

• Inability to meet specific real-time

app requests from students and

faculty

Results:

• Faster response times to

student/faculty needs

• Conversion of lab machines to

virtual desktops

Challenge:

• Improve clinician workflow

• Support 1000’s of point-of-care

desktops with simplicity, efficiency

• Ensure secure, reliable access to

patient data

Results:

• Streamlined workflows for:

referential image viewing, follow-me

desktops, and dictation

• Reduced capital expenses

• Simplified application management

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30%

Less Cost

Infrastructure

Costs

De

plo

ym

ent

Tim

es Deployment

Times

90%

Less Time

Application

Performance

30%

Faster

Power

Cooling

60%

Less Cost

IT

Staffing

Deploy 2x

Capacity

No Staff

Increase

Cisco and Intel® Deliver New Economics of

Agility, Efficiency and Simplicity


Deliver a simple, secure and scalable infrastructure with a compelling ROI in a fully integrated, open and validated virtualisation solution

Simple

• Simplified Desktop Deployment

• Simplified Management

• Integrated, Pre-Validated reducing Risk

Secure

Scalable

• Comprehensive security from client, network and data center

• Desktop-aware policies and administration

• Security policy access control and segmentation of virtual machines

• Industry leading virtualisation density

• On-demand server & desktop provisioning

• Easily scales to 1000s of virtual desktop per UCS system


• Come and talk to our datacentre and virtualisation specialists on the booth in the exhibition area about how we can help you:

• Deliver next generation virtual workspaces built on VMware View

• Achieve higher consolidation ratios for VMware vSphere virtual machines and VMware View virtual desktops

• Overcome network security and bandwidth challenges associated with virtual infrastructure

• Design an optimal virtual infrastructure to meet your performance & scalability requirements for server and desktop virtualisation

• Make sure you opt-in to receive the Server and Desktop Virtualisation Resource Guide!


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Server and Desktop Virtualisation: Addressing the Challenges · PDF fileBusiness Owners, CIO’s •Employee ... UCS B200 M3 Performance-Optimized Enterprise ... • Rich, comparative