Best Practices to Deploy All Flash Virtual SAN VDI Workloads Using VMware Horizon View

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Best Practices to Deploy All Flash Virtual SAN VDI Workloads Using

VMware Horizon View

Moderator, Brian Sorby, Avago Technologies

Biswapati Bhattacharjee, SanDisk Corporation

Abid Saeed, VMware, Inc

Nanjunda Somayaji, Brocade, Inc

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Agenda

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1 Introduction

2 Journey of VDI

3 Solution Details

4 Key Takeaways

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Introduction

• Standardized, validated, repeatable components

• Scalable designs that allow room for future growth

• Validated and tested designs that reduce implementation and operational risks

• Quick implementation, reduced costs, and minimized risk

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VDI Evolution

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VDI-in-a-Box Traditional Virtual_Environment

vSphere

External Storage Arrays

• Two infrastructure tiers • Compute àx86 • Storage àSAN/NAS Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vSphere + VSAN Virtual SAN

• Single infrastructure tier • Compute and storage from x86 • Data persistence from hypervisor

VDI 1.0 VDI 2.0 VDI 3.0

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Architecture Details

q

Virtual SAN Cluster

v

Four – node All Flash

v

12 Gb/s SAS End To End

v

Two Disk Group in each node

Ø

1 SAS + 3 SAS SSD drives

q

Desktop VM Details

v

Win 7 – 32 Bit Desktop

v

1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

v

30 GB Disk

v

Linked Clone

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SanDisk Portfolio For Virtual SAN 5.5/6.0

Flash Family

Fusion ioMemory™

SX300, PX600 Lighting Ascend™, Eco™

and Ultra™ Gen II

Optimus Ascend ™ Gen II

Optimus Eco™, Optimus MAX™ CloudSpeed, Ascend™,

Eco™ and Ultra™

ULLtraDIMM™ 1

Storage Tier

Caching Caching, Capacity Caching, Capacity Capacity Capacity, Caching Caching

Capacities

1.0TB - 6.4TB 200GB - 1.6TB 200GB - 1.6TB 2TB, 4TB 100GB - 800GB, 240GB - 960GB 200GB, 400GB

Device Types

PCIe SAS SATA SAS SAS NVDIMM

Performance

Class F Class E Class E Class E, B Class C, C, D Class F 1_{RPQ cert}

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Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager for

VMware Horizon View Servers

• Speed:

Accelerate services, increase

capacity, and reduce costs,

• Reliability:

Improve availability, avoid failed

or degraded servers, and

shaping traffic spikes

• Security:

vTM operates as

a deny-all gateway

• Ease of management:

Ease application

and user management

Load Balance View Connection

Servers

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Brocade VCS Fabrics Evolve Data Centers

Continual evolution with VCS fabrics

Automated

Efficient

Cloud-optimized

• Zero-touch provisioning

• Zero-touch VM discovery,

L2/L3 configuration, and

mobility

• Self-forming trunks

• Manage many switches as

a single logical device

• All links fully active

• Multipathing at all layers:

Layer 1/2/3

• IP storage-aware

• Multitenancy at scale with

VCS Virtual Fabric and

VMware NSX

• Scale-out non-disruptively

• Orchestrated via OpenStack

• DevOps support

50% lower OpEx

_{network utilization}

2x greater

_{application deployment}

Faster time to

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Login VSI Profile Details

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Task Worker VDI Workload

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Office Worker VDI Workload

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VSAN Observer – VSAN Disk Details

Average latency is around 1 ms

Latency remains low as IOPS increases

No congestion recorded

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Physical CPU (PCPU) Status – Office Worker Load

172.20.161.104 172.20.161.106

172.20.161.105

172.20.161.107

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CPU utilizations stayed very high during the test and reached 100% around saturation point.

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Memory Status – Office Worker Load

§

Sufficient enough memory resources were available.

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Network Data

§

Network traffic was consistent across servers and peaking around 1Gbit/s

§

No congestion was seen

172.20.161.107 172.20.161.105

172.20.161.106 172.20.161.104

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Horizon View Operation Test Results

§

Results

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

Compose Linked Clones Time Recompose Linked Clones Time Refresh Linked Clones Time Deleting Desktop Pool Time BootStorm Time

Ti m e in M inut es

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Key Takeaways

• _{Understand the key require}

ment of next generation VDI

• _{Learn how to deploy All Flash}

V

irtual SAN for VDI

• Improved application response time

• Link to Reference Architecture Document

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Horizon-View-And-All-Flash-Virtual-SAN-Reference-Architecture.pdf

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• Connect with the right

teams VMware and

partners

Connect

• Develop a proof of

concept

• Leverage

complementary

materials

• Leverage the

communities

Engage

• Demonstrate and

adopt the solution

Demonstrate

Call To Action

Innovate

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Best Practices to Deploy All Flash Virtual SAN VDI Workloads Using

VMware Horizon 6

Moderator, Brian Sorby, Avago Technologies

Biswapati Bhattacharjee, SanDisk Corporation

Abid Saeed, VMware, Inc

Nanjunda Somayaji, Brocade, Inc

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Backup

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Login VSI – Tool Details & VSIMax

q

Login VSI tool was used to load the target environment with simulated user

workloads using often used user applications like Microsoft Office, Internet

Explorer and Adobe PDF reader.

q

By gradually increasing the amount of users in the simulation, the system will

eventually be saturated. Once the system is saturated, the response time of the

applications will increase significantly.

q

This latency in application response times a clear indication whether the system

is (close to being) overloaded. As a result, by (nearly) overloading a system it is

possible to find out what its true maximum user capacity is possible.

q

The point of saturation is represented by the VSIMax value, in the graphs

shown as the red

x

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Advantages

VDI

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Boot Storm/Login Storm

q

VDI Environment Creating and Management

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Predictable performance of desktops

q

Improved Application Response time

All Flash Virtual SAN

q

Business Continuity

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Flash Endurance

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Stretch Cluster

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Deployment Scenarios

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Desktop as a Service (from Cloud)

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Application SLA mapped to DaaS

q

All Flash simplicity of building the environment

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Scale out nature – Elasticity - Direct correlation b/w capacity and performance

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Hardware

Details

Server

v

DELL

R730s

v

CPU = 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (24 Cores & 48 Threads)

v

Memory = 384 GB

SSD Drives

v

12G - SAS drive for caching (

SanDisk

Lightning Ascend Gen. II SSDs* – 800 GB)

v

12G - SAS drive for data (

SanDisk

Lightning Eco Gen. II SSDs** – 800 GB)

Disk Controller

v

Avago

3108 (PERC H730P Mini Controller)

Ethernet Switch

v

2 Brocade

VDX 6740 10GbE switches (Used GA vSphere 2015 Test Results)

*10 DWPD **3 DWPD

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Software Details

• VMware vSphere 2015 (ESXi 6.0 GA) with Virtual SAN 6.0

q

VMware Horizon 6 v6.1

vView Connection Server

vView Composer

vView Agents (32-bit )

vHorizon Client

q

Microsoft Windows 7 – 32 Bit (VDI Desktop)

q

Login VSI

*

( VDI Load tool)

* Login VSI is a tool which loads the system with simulated desktop workloads using common

applications like Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Adobe Reader

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What is Brocade VCS

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Ac

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• Rigid architecture, north-south optimized

• Inefficient link utilization

• Individually managed switches, complex

• Scale-up

• VM-ignorant

Classic Hierarchical Architecture

• Topology freedom, east-west optimized

• All links active, Layer 1/2/3 multipathing

• Fabric managed as one logical switch

• Scale-out

• VM-aware

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Scale-out

Ethernet Fabric Architecture

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Automation

• Zero-touch provisioning

• Zero-touch VM discovery,

configuration, and mobility

• Self-forming trunks

• Minimal configuration to add

links or switches

• _{Manage many switches as a}

single logical device

50% Lower Operating Expenses

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Efficient

• All links fully active;

no standby

• _{Elastic, and self-healing fabrics}

and fabric-level diagnostics

• Multipathing at all layers

of the network: Layer 1,

Layer 2, and Layer 3

• _{IP storage aware}

• Virtual SAN

2x Greater Utilization

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Cloud-Optimized

• Multitenancy at scale

with VCS Virtual Fabric

and VMware NSX

• Scale-out non-disruptively

• _{Orchestration}

through OpenStack

• Puppet and Python

for DevOps

• _OpenFlow

Faster Time to Application

Deployment

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Brocade IP Analytics Pack for vRealize Operations

Maximize virtual network availability with physical network analytics

VMware

vRealize

Operations

VMware

Subscriber

Analytics Application Analytics Network Analytics

Device Smartphone

Analytics EngineSDN

Port

Health Switch Status Policy HealthFRU Security

Violations ResourceSwitch PerformanceTraffic

VMware

vCloud Automation Center

vSphere

Network Virtualization

and Security (NSX)

Intelligent Network Operations

Delivers comprehensive IP analytics to support

cloud environments

Unified Virtual & Physical Networking

Provides deeper insights and visibility into the

network for better application and VM

performance

Simplified Policy Automation

Pre-defined topologies, queries and alerts

simplify monitoring and health, risk and

efficiency metrics add context to analytics

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900+

Customers

Brocade VDX Switch and VCS Fabric Evolution

Rapid pace of innovation

Product Milestones/

Announcements

Cumulative

Installed Base

Brocade VDX 6720

January 2011

Announced

Brocade VDX/VCS

June 2010

20+

Customers

₁₀₀₊

Customers

₂₀₀₊

Customers

Q1 11 Q2 11 Q3 11 Q4 11 CQ2 10 Q4 10 Q4 12

300+

Customers

Brocade VDX

6710 and 6730

September 2011

Brocade VDX 8770

October 2012

1,300+

Customers

Q2 13 Q4 13

1,700+

Customers

Brocade VDX 6740

August 2013

Brocade VDX 6740T

February 2014

Q1 14

1,900+

Customers

Q1 15

2,500+

Brocade VDX 6940

February 2015

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IP Storage MAPS for NOS

Simplified Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite for IP Storage

• Personality-based monitoring groups

– IP Storage ports, Server ports

• Flexible monitoring rules/policies for monitoring groups

–

Pre-defined

Aggressive/Conservative/Moderate policies

– Choice to define

custom

monitoring rules/policies

– Advanced configuration/rules

• Multiple notification methods upon rule trigger

– RASlog, SNMP trap, E-mail, Port fence (where applicable)

• Dashboards for Summary and Historical Views

Ports Get Assigned to Pre-Defined

Groups or Use Custom

User-Defined Groups

Red

NAS ports

Blue

iSCSI ports

Green

DAS ports

Orange

Non-storage ports

Port health

category

Switch status

policy

category

FRU health

category

Security

violations

category

Switch

resource

category

Traffic

performance

category

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