Workspace & Storage Infrastructure for Service Providers

Garry Soriano | Regional Technical Consultant | Citrix

Cloud Channel Summit 2015 | @rhipecloud #RCCS15

The industry’s most complete Mobile

Workspace solution

Windows app security and delivery

High performance virtual desktops

Mobile app & device security

Mobile productivity apps – mail, web

On-premises secure data sync & share

Unified app store

Secure mobile gateway

Workspace & Storage Infrastructure for Service Providers

Soh Kiat Hiong | Senior Consultant | Solid Fire

Cloud Channel Summit 2015 | @rhipecloud #RCCS15

Confidence in Cloud with SolidFire

• Overview

• Multi-Tenanted Cloudo 5 Key Elements

• Citrix VDI & CloudPlatform

• Thank You | Q&A

Different Faces of the Next Generation DataCenter

Next Generation Data Center

Software Defined

Data CenterInfrastructure 2.0

Cloud

Computing

Virtualization

Agile Scalable Automated Predictable

“The demands of this

NGDC-approach are now

being felt strongly by IT

organizations of all types; so

much so that one can see

data centers in the next few

years either embracing such

a move themselves, or

buying their IT services from

someone that does.”

Mark Peters, ESG

IT-as-a-Service

Highly Scalable All-flash Storage System for the next

generation data center

Performance

Cap

acity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS

200,000 IOPS35 TB

Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

Scale-Out Architecture

• 4 – 100 nodes

• 35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity

• 200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS

Simple all inclusive pricing model

Direct Tier 3 Support for every customer

Industry-standard hardware• 10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC

Cloud

Orchestration

VDI

Databases

SolidFire for Multi-

Tenanted Cloud

• Consolidated, Scale Out

Storage Cluster

• Highly Available

• Guaranteed Performance

• Complete Automation,

integration with Cloud

Orchestration

• Capacity Efficiency with

Inline Reduction

Virtual

Infrastructure

• Platform Compatibility Guarantee

o Ensures that all future software & platforms from

SolidFire will interoperate with existing

infrastructure

• Unlimited Drive Wear Guarantee

o Eliminate concerns around flash endurance

o No restrictions on use-case or workload

Never Obsolete

Unparalleled Investment Protection

No more forklift upgrades

Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Cap

acity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS

200,000 IOPS35 TB

Guaranteed Compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes

• Future-Proof your storage investment

• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift

upgrades

• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade

Linear Scale of Performance and Capacity

Expand / Contract without disruption or

reconfiguration

Highly Available Storage Infrastructure

• SolidFire Helix™

• Cluster wide RAID-less data

protection

o No single points of failure

o Automatic self-healing –

restores redundancy after

failure

o Maintains all QoS settings

regardless of failure

condition

o Non-disruptive hardware

and software upgrades

• Native Real-Time Replication

• Swift API Backup-Integration

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• SolidFire Helix™

• Cluster wide RAID-less data

protection

o No single points of failure

o Automatic self-healing –

restores redundancy after

failure

o Maintains all QoS settings

regardless of failure

condition

o Non-disruptive hardware

and software upgrades

• Native Real-Time Replication

• Swift API Backup-Integration

Highly Available Storage Infrastructure

SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional

performance related storage problems - ESG 2015

Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

Dynamically Allocate, Manage and

Guarantee storage performance

independent of capacity

Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings

for each application / volume

Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications

Decreased

Performance

Noisy Neighbor

SolidFire QoS in Practice

500 IOPS

1000 IOPS

1200 IOPS

8000 IOPS

• Strong User Experience

o 750 desktops < 1ms latency

o Consume < 10% of available

storage resources

• Low $/Desktop

o 1000 desktops per 1 rack unit (RU).

o 50,000 provisionable IOPS per node

o 12TB of usable capacity

• Simplicity of Scale

o Granular scale of capacity &

performance

o Node by node w/o downtime

• Design Adaptability

• Dedicated Performance with

Shared Infrastructure Economics

XenDesktop on SolidFire Reference Architecture

SolidFire Powering XenDesktop | QoS

750 Desktops delivered via PVS 7

Write Cache File Volumes

• 11 x 1TB volumes

• 70 desktops per volume

QoS settings per volume

• minIOPS = (Number of VM’s per

Volume) * 25

• maxIOPS = (Number of VM’s per

Volume) * 100

• burstIOPS = (Number of VM’s per

Volume) * 250

SolidFire Powering XenDesktop – Boot Storm

• System Center sequentially booted all desktops

• Peak IO and Bandwidth requirements easily handled

• Consumed less than 1/8th available performance of cluster

SolidFire Powering XenDesktop | Efficiency

Capacity consumed for 750 desktops < 25GB

• Deduplication factor 6.01x

• Compression factor 3.26x

• Total reduction of over 18x on write cache

files

▪ SolidFire plug-in integrated into both

CloudPlatform and CloudStack

▪ Create, delete, attach and detach SolidFire

volumes via CloudStack UI

▪ SolidFire plug-in enables automated

Quality of Service per data disk

▪ Dynamically provision volumes on the fly

▪ Enable the SolidFire plug-in in minutes

▪ CloudPlatform 2.x, 3.x, 4.2 certified

▪ “Citrix Ready” certified solutions and part

of Citrix Cloud Accelerator program

The Block Storage Solution for Citrix CloudPlatform

Citrix Demo Cloud

Showcase

Customer SuccessDeep CloudPlatform Integration Validated Interoperability

Citrix Merlin Reference

Architecture

Primary Storage for CloudPlatform

25GB

CloudPlatform + XenServer

(Primary Storage Pools)

SolidFire Cluster

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Orchestration

• Leverage the Primary Storage Volumes

• Create Disk Offering per Service Level

Hypervisor

• Storage Repository per Service Level

• iSCSI attached Volumes to Hypervisor

Compute

• Multiple Tenant VMs/Disks

• VMs Placed by Compute Service Offering

Storage

• iSCSI attached Volumes per Service Level

• QoS Defined per Volume

QoS Defining Performance

• Min IOPS – Guaranteed Floor

• Max IOPS – Controlled Ceiling

• Burst IOPS – Allow Brief Spikes

• Controls Per Volume

• Configurable Volume Size

Service Offerings

• Compute Offering

• Uses the Gold Disk Offering

• Disk Offering

• One Needed for Each Tier

SolidFire & Citrix CloudPlatform

• Citrix Ready Program

- SolidFire + XenDesktop + CloudPlatform = scalable multi-tenant and multi-workload

architecture

• Expand Breadth of Services

- Confidently host more mission/business critical applications in your cloud

• Improve Quality of Service

- Guaranteed performance to thousands of applications

- Provision storage from CloudPlatform with same agility and granularity as compute

- Enable end user self-service

• Lower Cost of Service

- Robust APIs allow for deeper integration between SolidFire & CloudPlatform

- Completely automate storage administration

- Achieve PB scale within a single management domain

25GB

Proven in the World’s Most Demanding DataCenters

Service Providers Large Enterprise

@rhipecloud #RCCS15

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