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NetAppThe perfect fit for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Philippe WackersSystem Engineer
Philippe.Wackers@netapp.com
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The Challenges Associated with Deploying VDI
Storage Acquisition Costs– VDI Requires Enterprise Class Storage
Data Protection High Availability Backup
– VDI Provides Central Desktop Updates Requires Additional Storage
Lengthy Mass Deployment Timeframes– Cloning 100s – 1,000s of Virtual Machines
Takes Time 6-12 Minutes Per Virtual Desktop or 5-10 Virtual Desktops
deployed per Hour
Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays
BuildDesktops
RAID
Build 2nd Gen Desktops
RAID
Backup Production VDIs
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The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDIWith NetApp Storage Virtualization
Single storage architecture serves all data protocols
Simplified Management
FlexClone provisions new Datastores which are immediately available and online
Admin Time Reductions
A-SIS and FlexClone storage savings of 90%
RAID-DP reduces data protection costs by 50%
Acquisition Cost Reductions
RAID-DP provides RAID10 data protection
SnapMirror allows de-duplicated data to be backed up without losing the de-duplication
Unmatched Data Availability
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NetApp RAID-DP Data Protection
A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Must be Available
Current Disk Drives have more physical imperfections/errors and are less reliable
Time to rebuild increase with disk size RAID5 does not provide enough
Data Protection RAID10 doubles the cost of
Data Protection
RAID-DP provides the unmatched data protection andcost efficiencies required by VDI
RAID-DP™
RAID10
Protects against double disk failure40% lower cost than RAID10!
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Storage Virtualization makes a difference
Available IOPs (work I can do)
Capacity
Aggregate:Efficient resource utilizationCapacity and IOPs are pooled
Volumes: not tied to physical storageNon-fixed storage allocation allows continuous rebalancing across spindles.
Better Capacity Management No stranded spindles / capacity RAID Optimization
Sharper Data Focus Deduplication Thin Provisioning Policy Based Space
Management Quality of Service Backup / Recovery Data Replication
App AppAppApp
Aggregate
FlexVol
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“We decided to utilize NetApp SnapMirror for replication and deduplication, and these became a driving factor in our solution achieving 80% storage savings on VMware backup data with deduplication.”
A Global Financial Services Firm
NetApp FAS DeduplicationAdvanced Single Instance StorageDramatic Space Savings for Vmware
Integrated with Data ONTAPGeneral-purpose volume deduplicationIdentifies and removes redundant data blocks
Application AgnosticPrimary StorageBackup DataArchival Data
Extending Asset OptimizationUtilization savings with NetApp Deduplication
Some real customer resultsManaged Service Provider: 45%Medical Services: 65%Retailer: 70%Internet Service Provider: 75%Title Management: 72 - 84%Insurance / Banking (VDI): 94%
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VMware: An Opportunity for Deduplication
Each Virtual Desktop stores the same data repeatedly: OS software, patches, software drivers, application data
VI3 Server
Data Store A
.VMDK .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK
Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays
RAID Layer
.VMDK .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK
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NetApp FAS System
FlexVol®
Duplicate Data Is Eliminated
VI3 Server
Data Store A
.VMDK .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK
Shrink VMware Storage Footprint
NetApp® deduplication removes the redundant blocks All copies still appear intact to the ESX server
.VMDK
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NetApp Multiprotocol Support
VDI Environments have multiple storage requirements
– VI3 Server Storage Options Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) iSCSI & NFS via Ethernet
– VDI End User Storage Requirements CIFS for the storage of User Roaming Profiles and
Documents
A single NetApp FAS system provides all 4 storage protocols & is certified with VI3 & VDI
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NetApp FAS System VI3 Server
FlexVol A
LUNDatastore A
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore B
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore C
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore D
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore E
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Simultaneously Server Both VDI Architecture & End User Data
CIFS File Shares
Store User Profiles & Data
De-Dupe w/ A-SIS
FlexVol B
NetApp Multiprotocol Support Diagram
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NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning
Instantly Provision Cloned Datastores or RDMs
– Supports FCP, iSCSI, VMFS, RDM, & NAS
– Clones are Immediately Available
– Clones Require Zero Additional Storage
– FlexClone Reduces the storage of Multiple Datastores down to that of a Single Datastore
FlexClone provides the ability to provision 1000s of Virtual Machines in minutes
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Traditional Storage Array
500 GBs of Storage
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
500 GBs of Storage
500 GBs of Storage
500 GBs of Storage
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
Traditional VDI Storage deployment
Storage is Provisioned and connected as a DatastoreVirtual Desktops store their data on Virtual Disks (VMDKs)
Virtual Disks are copied one at a time to create new Virtual machines
Virtual Infrastructure Deployment
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1 Create a Gold image DataStore and deduplicate2 FlexClone DataStores as required – instantly and with zero space 3 Datastores and virtual machines are immediately available
Simplest, fast, and most economical Virtual Machine deployment option
VDI Storage & Provisioning with FlexClone
Virtual Infrastructure Deployment
NetApp FAS SystemClone C – 0 GB
Clone B – 0 GBClone A – 0 GB
Gold Master DataStore 500 GBs
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK
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Step 1: Build Gold Image Virtual Machine
Create Datastore Create base snapshot ofDatastore
Create Virtual Machine(OS - Apps – Sysprep)
Step 2: Build Gold Image Datastore
FlexClone and attach Datastore
De-duplicate redundantdata with A-SIS
Fill Datastore by VM cloning Gold Image
Virtual Machine
Step 3: Mass Deploy Virtual Machines
FlexClone & attach clones of Gold Image Datastore
1000s of VMs deployed in minutes at the storage
cost of a single VM
Register and start VMs. All are unique and auto
join Active Directory
NetApp FlexClone Mass Provisioning Process Summary
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VI3 Server
Virtual MachineTemplate (VMX)
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V-Disk 0
Datastore A
VMDK
Begin by Building Template of the VM to Deploy
NetApp FAS System
FlexVol
Datastore A
NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning
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VI3 Server
Virtual MachineTemplate (VMX)
`
V-Disk 0
Datastore A
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Use VMware’s Cloning to Fill the Datastore with VMs
NetApp FAS System
FlexVol
Datastore A
NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning
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FlexClone the Volume and Mount the Cloned Datastore
NetApp FAS System
FlexVol
Datastore A Datastore B
VI3 Server
Datastore A
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore B
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning
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…Continue to Build out Datastores with FlexClone…
NetApp FAS System
FlexVol
Datastore A Datastore B
Datastore C
VI3 Server
Datastore A
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore B
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore C
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning
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… and Continue…
NetApp FAS System
FlexVol
Datastore A Datastore B
Datastore C
Datastore D
VI3 Server
Datastore A
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore B
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore C
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore D
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning
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NetApp FAS System
Datastore E
VI3 Server
Deploy VMs while not utilizing any additional storage capacity
FlexVolDatastore A
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore B
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore C
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore D
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore E
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
Datastore A Datastore B
Datastore C
Datastore D
NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning
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Backing Up a Virtual Desktop Infrastrucutre
A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Must be Backed Up
– An interruption to storage would take 100s to 1000s of users offline
– Traditional backup options Backup to tape
– RTO?
Disk to Disk Backup– Time?
– Storage?
– Bandwidth?
– Cost?
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Backing Up a VDI with SnapMirror
Disk to Disk back up via SnapMirror
–The only data de-duplication aware replication technology
–Space savings are replicated to DR facility Lower time to recover than tape (RTO) Significantly lower costs than traditonal disk replicaiton
SnapMirror provides superior solutions for backing up Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
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Primary VI3DataCenter
Secondary VI3DataCenter
SnapMirror Replication
VDI Users
NetApp SnapMirror ReplicationFor VDI Backup and Business Continuance
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Primary VI3DataCenter
Secondary VI3DataCenter
NetApp SnapMirror ReplicationFor VDI Backup and Business Continuance
VDI Users
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The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDIWith NetApp Storage Virtualization
Block level replication technology for de-duplicated data
Business Continuance in minutes
SnapMirror
Instantaneous zero cost storage provisioning
FlexClone
RAID10 data Protection and Performance at ½ the Cost
RAID-DP
FCP, iSCSI, and NFS for VI3 Connectivity
CIFS for storing VDI user profiles and documents
Native Multiprotocol Support
Reduces storage requirements by 90%
A-SIS De-duplication
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Summary
NetApp Value Proposition for Vmware
– Extending asset optimization through storage virtualization
– Accelerating deployment
– Tackling the challenge of backup / recovery
– Simplifying site recovery
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Joint Value Proposition(Virtualizing servers solves only half the problem)
Increase ROI of server virtualization by aggregating, thin-provisioning, and dynamically managing resources across flexible storage pools.
NetApp storage delivers: Architectural Flexibility
– Unified Storage (FCP, ISCSI, NFS)– Tiered Storage (FC, ATA, SAS)– Multi-vendor virtualization (V-Series)
Optimized Capacity– Virtual Partitioning of storage resources– Advanced RAID– Thin Provisioning– Data De-duplication
Optimized Performance– Virtual Partitioning of storage resources– Dynamic Storage Resource management
Optimized Provisioning– Rapid provisioning of storage pools– Policy based space management
Superior backup and restore capabilities– Space efficient backups of virtual machine files and data– Rapid recovery of virtual machine files and data
Flexible Data Replication– Architecture / transport independent– Replication and site failover at multiple levels of granularity
Physical Storage
FlexVol® Volumes
Virtual Machines
Physical x86 Servers
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