Software Defined Storage for VDI

Neil Stobart – EMEA SE Director

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Market Trends – Data Explosion & Shrinking Budgets

Workloads, IT Budgets and Trends

Source: 2014 – Company, Gartner, IDC and Wall Street research.

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Nexenta Company Timeline

Sun Microsystemsopen sources ZFS

20051st POs from Stanford

NexentaStor 1.0Scale-up unified block & file services on any

x86 hardware

2008400 PB Under Management

NexentaStor 3.0

First Cinder integration with OpenStack Essex

10 patents in play

2012

5,000 customer deployments

NexentaStor 3.1Dell and SuperMicro

Reference Architectures

NexentaConnectSDS for VDI

1st patent 20 in play

Tarkan Manerjoins as CEO

2013900 PB Under Management

NexentaStor 4.xEnterprise class SDS

NexentaConnectHorizon &

XenDesktopOn ESX

NexentaEdge 1.0Scale-out object

NexentaFusion 1.0Unified analytics and

orchestration

3 patents30 in play

2014

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All storage hardware vendors are software based Software-Based is about technology – good for vendors

– Software used to justify high margins on systems built with standard x86 hardware– Exact same hardware can often be acquired off the shelf

Software-Defined is about business model – good for customers– Standardize on software and make x86 hardware vendors compete– Allows customers to procure storage with server like economics

Nexenta is the only provider of SDS for all stacks and all workloads

Software-Based or Software-Defined?

Software Based Software Defined

…Stack Specific

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Comprehensive Software Defined Storage Portfolio

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Scale-up , block and fileUnified Storage

Enterprise AppsCloud backend and unstructured data

repositories

Scale-out object, block and file storage

OpenStack SwiftAmazon S3

Next Gen Cloud &Big Data Apps

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Unified analytics and orchestrationSingle pane of glass for entire storage infrastructure

Storage Services for virtualized infrastructureVMware Virtual SAN, Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop

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VDI Deployment Challenges

Storage Performance considerations• Need equal or better performance than PC• Requires low latency to deliver good end user experience• High Write IOPS due to user profile updates need more resources than high read

requirements• Boot/login storms necessitate sizing for overall peak performance requirements therefore

need more spindles

High performance storage required to support workload means that storage cost consideration severely impact decision for VDI deployment

Monitoring• Storage Calibration – ensuring storage resources are applied for the right desktops• No insight into performance at the desktop level

Different categories of user require different levels of performance therefore important to understand when and where additional storage resources are required

to ensure good end user experience

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