Desktop Virtualization with Cisco UCS Servers

Cisco Desktop Virtualization

Ashok Rajagopalan, Mike Brennan, Tony Paikeday Desktop Virtualization Solutions Team

4/30/14

Design Considerations for VDI Scale, Performance, and Manageability

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Agenda

Cisco UCS: The Story Thus Far Differentiated Performance and Manageability for Desktop Virtualization Cisco Validated Designs Walkthrough Getting Started

Cisco Confidential 3

March 2009: Cisco Unified Computing System

"A year from now the difference will be UCS is dead and we have had phenomenal market share growth in the networking space" – Randy Seidl, HP

“Cisco deserves a lot of credit for its industry chutzpah”

"The tough part here is that the server buyer has no relationship with Cisco. And they don't know why they need one.” -Forrester Research


Cisco UCS: The Right Solution at the Right Time

CISCO UCS

Virtualization

Network & Storage Access

Compute

Application Centricity

Operational Simplicity

Platform for IT Innovation

Reduce the Complexity that Drives OPEX Get the Most Out of Virtualization Automate and Move Faster Get ready for cloud

Customer Asks in 2009

Help me:


1IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q1 2013 Revenue Share, May 2013

Real Innovation Channel Acceleration

Cisco UCS: After Five Short Years

Technology Partnerships

“Leader” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers

#2 in World Wide x86 Blade Server Market1

23,000 UCS Customers 5400 900 30,000

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2009

3850 Partners

90% of $2B+ UCS Business

Growing Partner Data Center Practices

Simplify the Total Solution

Established and Emerging Players

Integrated and Converged Infrastructures

Focused on Customer OPEX

Application Centric vs. HW Centric

ASIC-Level Virtualization Technology

Growth Drivers


Cisco UCS Leading Server Growth (Y/Y)

-8% -9% 3%

-16%

43%

-11% -2%

Source: IDC Server Tracker, December 2013, factory revenue. Revenue is cumulative 4 quarters (Q4CY12 – Q3CY13)

$14.3B $13.0B $8.3B $2.3B $2.1B $50.4B

Market


Cisco Unified Computing System Real Business Value for Over 30,000 Customers World Wide

Sources: Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter, Customer Case Studies, Cisco UCS Performance Benchmarks

90 World-Record Performance Benchmarks

84% Reduction in Provisioning

Times

61% Reduction of Management

Costs

54% Reduction of Power and

Cooling Costs

77% Cabling

Reduction

“Our Cisco Unified Computing System decision is a game-changer.” Wes Wright CIO, Seattle Children’s

“We’re able to offer leading-edge solutions to our customers and

continue to expand our business.” Martin Breslin Infrastructure Architect, SEI

“With Cisco UCS, we can adapt much more quickly to user

demand.” Mark Adams Vice President of Information Technology, HireRight


Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q3 2013, December 2013, Revenue Share Source: 2 As of Cisco Q1FY14 earnings results Data Center Revenue is defined as Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V

#2 WW market share in x86 blades 1

3,850+ UCS CHANNEL PARTNERS

30,000+ UNIQUE UCS CUSTOMERS 2

90 world record performance benchmarks to date

More than 75% of all

customers have invested in UCS Fortune 500

Cisco Unified Computing system


Agenda



252 Windows 7 Desktops on a Single B200 M3 Blade Server

29% More Responsive App virtualization sessions with…

53% better CPU Utilization

5,000 Virtual desktop users booted within 30 min.

50% Lower cost storage per Desktop and…

16x Less Power Consumed per Desktop **

**with Cisco UCS Storage

Cisco Desktop Virtualization: Performance Proof Points


Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution Architectures

Cisco Desktop and Application Virtualization Solutions

Converged Infrastructure

Scalable Architecture

Simplified Architecture

On-Board Architecture

Storage “Appliance” model

medium scale

Integrated Solution with Tier-0 Storage on Server

Scale-out environment with shared storage

medium & large scale

Turnkey Solutions with integrated compute

stacks

medium & large scale

UCS Invicta

Eco

syst

em

Des

igns

Industry-leading portfolio


vMotion impact on VDI workloads

Networking Delivery for VDI

•  User experience & SLA association to the virtual desktop

•  Prioritization among multiple virtual desktops pools

•  Consistent virtual desktop behavior with vMotion, backup and other data center actions

•  Burst controls, and other traffic shaping controls

•  Separation of cluster, management traffic from desktop traffic

•  Up to 80 Gb/s bandwidth per server to prevent HOL blocking


Expanding Desktop Use Cases

13

Designer Power Users Knowledge Workers Task Workers

Graphics & Media Professionals, Design Engineers

Financial Analysts, Traders, Design Reviewers Office workers, productivity &

line-of-business workers Contact center workers, out-

sourcing vendors, contractors

CATIA, CS6, Inventor PLM, Solidworks, Adobe Dreamweaver, Medical

Imaging MS Office, PhotoShop CRM Applications, Web-based applications

GPU Pass through: 1:1 Dedicated GPU to user Shared GPU: software virtualization of the GPU (for both HVD and HSD)


Single Logical Chassis: Virtual Desktops, Hosted Desktops, Services, Apps servers, Graphics Intensive Apps

LAN SAN A SAN B

Mgmt

View Manager, vCenter Designers with GPU Application Farm Web Tier Servers View Desktops

UCS Manager

One Logical Chassis to Manage* LAN Connectivity SAN Networking Blade Chassis’ Server Blades Rack Servers

+ Tier 0 Storage On Server Server Identity Management Monitoring, Troubleshooting

*160 servers managed in a single domain as a logical chassis


Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components Service profile templates allow rapid provisioning of new virtual desktops

Dynamic Platform Provisioning with Service Profiles

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

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 UCS Manager


UCS Manager

Desktop Farm 1 UCS Manager



Desktop Farm 3

UCS Central

ADFADFA ADFADFA ADFADFA





•  Manages up to 1 Million+ virtual desktops

•  Manages both tenant and service provider environments

•  Unifies management of multi UCS domains

•  Leverages UCS Manager technology

•  Simplify global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs and server console

•  Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID pools and templates

Foundation for high availability, disaster recovery and workload mobility

•  Model based API for large scale automation

Cisco UCS Central Simplifies Operations at Scale


Challenges:

•  Manual processes

•  Complex handoffs between teams and domains

•  Static resource allocation

Result:

•  Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services

•  High operational cost

•  Rigid silos

•  Infrastructure inefficiency and under utilization

Complexity in Deploying Virtual Desktop Workload

App

licat

ion

Net

wor

k Pr

ofile

Update Trunks

Create EPG

Configure SAN Zoning

UCS Service Profiles

Create Network Policies

Serv

er

Adm

ins Configure

Servers Update vNIC

With VLAN Select SP’s

Add VLAN to Service Profile

Create VLAN Update

Stor

age Add vFilers

to Group Create vFilers

Create IP space

Update Create Storage Policy NFS Mount

Add Users and Groups

IT Planning

Approvals Define Cost Models

Desktop/VD

I A

pplication R

equirements

1

23

4

5

6

VDI VM

VDI VM HSD HSD

Hypervisor HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR

VDI VM Broker Servic

es


Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution On-Demand

Automated Delivery

Policy-Driven Provisioning

Secure Cloud Container

VMs Compute Network Storage

UCS Director

Domain Managers

OS and Virtual

Machines

Storage

Network

Compute

Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Virtualized Platform

Compute and Hypervisor

B C A Network and Services

VM VM VM

Sing

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ane

of G

lass

End-

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utom

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Life

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anag

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Broker Services VDI VM HSD VDI

VM


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Architecture

Business Challenges Technical Highlights Summary

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_vspex_vview53_2k.pdf

•  UCS 2.2(1b) with IVY Bridge Support

•  Cisco UCS Managed B 200 M3 (E5-2680v2) 14 Server Cluster, N+1

•  Nexus 5548UP 5.2(1)N1(1), Nexus 1000V 4.2(1) SV2(2.1a), 10 GE & FC Switching

•  VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor

•  VMware Horizon View 5.3 Components

•  EMC VNX5600 Storage

•  Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

•  Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments

•  High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment

•  Rapid boot, rapid login support. •  Higher VM density per ESXi cluster •  Supported Graphics, HTML 5 Access, VSAN Support

•  Siloed Network, Compute, Storage

•  Inefficient Resources

•  Complex, Expensive Operations

•  Application Restraints

•  Energy efficiency

•  Requirement for outstanding end-user experience

4 X 10 Gbps

Cisco Nexus 5548UP Cisco Nexus 5548UP

CISCO UCS 6248UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

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1/10 GIGABIT ETHERNET 1/2/4/8G FIBRE CHANNEL

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16UCS E16UP

3

CISCO NEXUS N5548P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

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CISCO NEXUS N5548P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

STAT

ID

CISCO UCS 6248UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

STAT

ID


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16UCS E16UP

Cisco UCS 6248UPCisco UCS 6248UP 2 X 1 Gbps

FC/FC0E

10 GE

SLOT

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UCS 2104XP

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UCS 2104XP

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UCS 2104XP

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UCS 2104XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

1 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis

7 x B200 M3Virtual Desktops

1 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis

7 x B200 M3Virtual Desktops

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8N55-M8P8FP


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8N55-M8P8FP

vPC PeerLink

4 X 10 Gbps

EMC VNX5600

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

Not shown in this Image:2 x B200 M3 for Infrastructure4 x B250 M2 for Launcher

SP-A 8Gb FC SP-B 8Gb FCDM-2 10GE DM-3 10GE

2 X 10GE2 X 8Gb FC 2 X 8Gb FC2 X 10GE


Architecture

Business Challenges Technical Highlights Summary •  Siloed Network, Compute, Storage •  Complex Design and Integration •  Scale Challenge •  Differing user requirements •  End user acceptance

•  Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(3a)

•  Cisco UCS B200 M3 with Intel E5-2680 v2

•  Cisco 6248UP Fabric Interconnect, Nexus 5548UP Layer 2 Switch

•  VMware vSphere 5.1

•  Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 pooled HVD desktops and RDS Hosted Shared Desktops

•  Nexus 1000v for VMware v 4.2(1)SV2(2.1a)

•  NetApp FAS 3240 Data ONTAP Cluster Mode

•  Converged Infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center


•  High performance, scalable and resilient system

•  Rapid boot, rapid login and support for 2000 mixed use case virtual desktops and session users


Architecture

Business Challenges Technical Highlights Summary •  Siloed Network, Compute, Storage •  Complex Design and Integration •  Scale Challenge •  Differing user requirements •  End user acceptance

•  Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(3a) •  Cisco UCS B200 M3 with Intel E5-2680 v2 •  Cisco 6248UP Fabric Interconnect, Nexus 5548UP Layer 2

Switch •  Citrix XenServer 6.2 •  Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 pooled HVD and RDS Hosted Shared

Desktops •  NetApp FAS 3250 Data ONTAP C-Mode

•  Converged Infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center


•  High performance, scalable and resilient system

•  Rapid boot, rapid login and support for 2000 mixed use case virtual desktops and session users


Architecture

Business Challenges Technical Highlights Summary •  Siloed Network, Compute, Storage •  Inefficient Resource Utilization •  Slow, Complex, Expensive Operations •  Differing End User Requirements •  Reduce CapEx

•  UCS 2.1(3a) with Ivy Bridge support •  IP Only Solution on Hyper-V •  Citrix Xen Desktop 7 HVD and RDS •  Nexus 1000v for Hyper-V •  Microsoft 2012 support

•  EMC VNXe3300

•  Cisco Simplified Design with storage connected to FIs

•  Grow from 500 to 1000 seats by adding the second chassis and three blades

•  High performance, low cost, scalable and resilient system

•  Excellent End User Experience in both use cases

Legend

CISCO UCS 6248UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

STAT

ID


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16UCS E16UP

CISCO UCS 6248UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

STAT

ID


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16UCS E16UP

Cisco UCS 6248UPCisco UCS 6248UP

2 X 1 Gbps

10 Gbps

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UCS 2104XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

Cisco UCS 2204XP

2 x Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis7 x B200 M3 Blades

Citrix Desktop Virtualization1000-‐user Mixed Workload

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

vPC PeerLink

EMC VNXe3300

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6Gb SAS

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1 Gbps

10 GB Converged


Architecture

Business Challenges Technical Highlights Summary •  High cost for VDI POCs •  No economical solution for Branch Office/Small

Office VDI •  Slow, Complex, Expensive Physical Desktop

Operations

•  Setup for VDI deployments complex •  Lower CapEx

•  Cisco UCS C240 M3 (v1.5.3b) •  LSI Nytro MegaRAID 200GB Controller •  Citrix XenServer 6.2 •  Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 components •  12 x 600 GB 10K RPM SAS Drives •  Optional Cisco VIC 1225 for 10GB

•  Onboard Design with onboard SAS drives and LSI Nytro controller only

•  Expansion and redundancy available by adding a second UCS C240 M3

•  All infrastructure plus 200 Login VSI Medium workload Windows 7 Desktops

•  Fast boot, fast login, outstanding End User Experience


Architecture

Business Challenges Technical Highlights Summary •  High cost for VDI POCs •  No economical solution for Branch Office/Small


Operations


•  Cisco UCS C240 M3 (v1.5.3b) •  LSI Nytro MegaRAID 200GB Controller •  VMware vSphere 5.5 •  VMware Horizon View 5.3 components •  12 x 600 GB 10K RPM SAS Drives •  Optional Cisco VIC 1225 for 10GB


•  Expansion and redundancy available by adding a second UCS C240 M3

•  All infrastructure plus 200 Login VSI Medium workload Windows 7 Desktops

•  Fast boot, fast login, outstanding End User Experience


Architecture

Business Challenges Technical Highlights Summary •  High cost for XenApp small scale deployments •  No economical solution for Branch Office/Small


Operations


•  Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects •  Cisco UCS C240 M3 (Managed) •  LSI Nytro MegaRAID 200GB Controller •  Citrix XenServer 6.2 •  Citrix XenApp 7.5 components •  12 x 600 GB 10K RPM SAS Drives


•  Light and Medium Workload cases •  All infrastructure plus 500 Login VSI Medium

workload Windows 7 Desktops •  Fast boot, fast login, outstanding End User

Experience


Agenda



Desktop Virtualization

Top Application for Early UCS Adoption

Thousands of Customers in Production

Penetration Across all Major Industries, Verticals

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

Deployments Ranging up to 90k Seats

PDF case studies are here: http://bit.ly/1h4cph4


Prescriptive, Validated Configurations, Eliminating the Guesswork

Minimized Up-Front Capital Outlay

Built-in Scalability as Your Business Demand Grows

Accelerated Path to ROI with VDI and App Virtualization

Get Started Now with Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions For VMware Horizon View and Citrix XenDesktop

More info: http://bit.ly/1cZJfeG

Economical Solution Bundles That Deliver


Key Benefits of Cisco UCS for Desktop Virtualization

Simple, Resilient Architecture for Deploying Desktop Virtualization ARCHITECTURE

Linear Scalability and Performance from 100 to 1000’s of Desktops Without a Change in Architecture SCALABILITY

Providing the Right Balance of Memory, I/O and CPU Is the Key to Cost-Effective Scalability BALANCED SYSTEM

Rapid Provisioning with Cisco UCS Manager for Ease of Scale SIMPLICITY

Reducing Risk and Accelerating Deployment Through Validation VALIDATED DESIGNS


Reference Materials

www.cisco.com/go/vdi

DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION

www.cisco.com/go/vdidesigns

DESIGN GUIDES

http://bit.ly/1cZJfeG

SOLUTION PACKS

http://bit.ly/1h4cph4

CASE STUDIES

Thank you.

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