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Nimble Storage Solution for Citrix XenDesktop brings the power of Predictive Flash to the industry-leading VDI offering.
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- 1. © 2016 Nimble Storage Nimble Storage Solution for Citrix XenDesktop
- 2. © 2016 Nimble Storage 2 VDI Demands Responsive Storage Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Challenges • Inadequate Infrastructure – Under sized for handling peak performance (e.g., boot/login storms); Scaling, resiliency, and business continuity features • Need for specialized expertise and planning – Understanding Storage best practices • Deploying a complete infrastructure and software stack
- 3. © 2016 Nimble Storage 3 Nimble Storage Solution for Citrix XenDesktop • Superior User Experience – High VDI reads w/Flash, High VDI write w/either flash or disk; All-Flash or Adaptive Flash w/Nimble • Removing the Guesswork – 50-75% space savings; AFA In-line dedupe 5X capacity vs competition – Grow VDI deployments without downtime – Gain insight at the click of a button • Simplified Operations – Eliminate silos for VDI; user data, and data protection with Unified Flash Fabric – Speed deployment w/pre-validated designs VDI Infrastructure Hypervisor
- 4. © 2016 Nimble Storage 4 Achieve Performance with a Unified Flash Fabric All Flash Mix-and-Match All Flash and Adaptive-Flash in a Scale-out Cluster Adaptive Latency-Sensitive WorkloadsBalance of Performance and Capacity Test & Dev
- 5. © 2016 Nimble Storage 5 All FlashAdaptive Latency-Sensitive WorkloadsBalance of Performance and Capacity Achieve Performance with a Unified Flash Fabric Transparent Application Migration Across Adaptive and All-flash Arrays Test & Dev Production
- 6. © 2016 Nimble Storage 6 Removing Guesswork with InfoSight InfoSight™ Cloud-based Management/Support Enables the Predictive Flash platform
- 7. © 2016 Nimble Storage 7 Simply Solutions with SmartStack Private CloudBusiness Apps DatabaseVirtual Desktop (VDI) Hypervisor
- 8. © 2016 Nimble Storage 8 What Is SmartStack? Hardware Platform An integrated infrastructure stack built on Nimble Predictive Flash Platform and Cisco UCS Infrastructure Software Applications and Solutions Accelerate all of your critical applications Management Integration with UCS Director Predictive storage analytics with Nimble Storage InfoSight Joint Testing and Support Growing library of validated designs for numerous platforms, hypervisors, applications A formal joint support model driven by Cisco Solution Support and Nimble Storage
- 9. © 2016 Nimble Storage 9 SmartStack Reference Architecture – for Citrix VDI Smart Setup Hypervisor VM Infrastructure SmartSetup UCS-Director VDI SmartStack with Cisco UCS and Nimble CS700, with Citrix XenDesktop 7.7 VDI 3000 Seat Deployment with Graphics Support SmartStack with Cisco UCS and Nimble CS700, with Citrix XenDesktop 7.7 VDI 2500 Seat Deployment with Graphics Support Last Updated: July 1, 2016 SmartStack with Cisco UCS and Nimble CS700, with Citrix XenDesktop 7.7 VDI 2500 Seat Deployment with Graphics Support
- 10. © 2016 Nimble Storage 10 Citrix Success: Gateway Health Supporting Growth, Assuring Healthcare Delivery with Citrix VDI • Business Challenges – Exponential growth in business, and amount of managed data – Degrading system performance impacting field workers • Solution – Citrix XenDesktop – Citrix XenApp – Nimble Storage CS-Series arrays – SmartStack with Cisco UCS servers, Nexus switches – Nimble Storage InfoSight • Benefits – Eliminated latency issues in desktop virtualization environment – Reduced VDI login times by one third – Improved performance of Tier 1 apps including Oracle by 50% – Achieved 50% reduction in data center space – Improved manageability and accuracy of storage information “After seeing how well the Nimble arrays worked in our VDI environment, we moved our MS SQL and Oracle environments to Nimble arrays as well.” David Guilinger, Director of Information Services, Gateway Health
- 11. © 2016 Nimble Storage 11 Citrix Technology Alliance Partnership Citrix is one of Nimble’s strategic alliance partners Nimble has been a Plus-level member of Citrix Ready partner network since 2011 Interoperability Both Nimble All-Flash and Adaptive Flash arrays are certified on Citrix HCL for latest XenServer and XenDesktop releases
- 12. © 2016 Nimble Storage 12 TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCES The Leader in Predictive Flash Storage EMPLOYEES 1,100+ COUNTRIES 50+ CUSTOMERS 7,500+ Headquarters in San Jose, with operations in U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Publicly Traded Company Since December 2013 2015 LEADER The Leader in Predictive Flash Storage
- 13. © 2016 Nimble Storage 13 Numerous Industry Accolades Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant Market Validation #6 • The only storage company created in the last two decades to be named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for General Purpose Storage
- 14. © 2016 Nimble Storage 14 Solution info available online at NimbleStorage.com – Nimble VDI info on the web https://www.nimblestorage.com/solutions/desktop-virtualization/ – SmartStack solution information https://www.nimblestorage.com/solutions/smartstack/ For more Information
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- Hello – My name is [NAME] I’m with Nimble Storage. I’m going to share with you information on our Solution for Citrix XenDesktop Including work we’re doing with Cisco in this area of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- [question] How many have already deployed or are in the process of deploying Virtual Desktop Infrastructure? Planning? Considering? This image captures what’s at the heart of the Typical VDI challenge: The Economic benefits of VDI have been known for sometime, but Infrastructure-related challenges have been a big challenge: Bursty IO requirements from boot storms, AV scans/patches, daily login-storms required high performance hardware. Plus, there’s the need to treat this new workload as Business Critical. Typical IT findings: Inadequate Infrastructure -- Under sized for handling performance peaks (e.g., boot/login storms) Also Scaling, resiliency, and business continuity features – because it’s critical that workers can access their desktops Need for specialized expertise and planning -- Understanding best practices for storage LANs – very different from Desktop systems. Deploying a complete infrastructure and software stack – rapidly and successfully cutting over to ensure uptime and knowledge worker productivity. These were the challenges Nimble’s VDI solution was designed to address…
- The Nimble Storage Solution for Citrix XenDesktop addresses the classic VDI challenges in 3 key areas and with 3 key features: DELIVERS A SUPERIOR USER EXPERIENCE -> FLASH PERFORMANCE This Nimble Storage solution delivers high VDI read performance with flash, and high VDI write performance with either flash or disk. Nimble Storage arrays allow choice between all-flash for absolute performance, or adaptive flash to cost effectively deliver high performance. TAKES THE GUESSWORK OUT OF VDI DEPLOYMENTS -> PLATFORM EFFICIENCY & INTELLIGENCE Deduplication and compression ensures high capacity savings. Also datacenter Space savings. Ability to scale seamlessly and non-disruptively. With InfoSight Predictive Analytics one can accurately forecast future capacity, performance and bandwidth needs and eliminates planning guesswork. Prescriptive guidance ensures optimal long term performance. SIMPLIFIES OPERATIONS -> INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE Nimble Unified Flash Fabric allows VDI desktops to reside on an all flash array for absolute performance, while user data can reside on an adaptive flash array – all managed as one group. Shared data protection services across the cluster. Leverage pre-validated Integrated Infrastructure to speed deployment, remove cost and risk from projects.
- Achieve Performance with a single Unified Flash Fabric Avoid storage silos Manage Adaptive Flash (Hybrid) and All-Flash through a single interface Cluster up to 4 of any Nimble Storage arrays –> 8.2 PB effective capacity (2.2PB raw) (1.4M IOPS read) Easier on storage budget Avoid overspending to achieve storage SLAs Extend storage ROI
- Scale up or Out with zero downtime Transparent Application Mobility Dynamic load-balancing and automated capacity rebalancing Can be across a cluster of Adaptive and All-Flash arrays Automatic data migrations based on policy Match the workload to the performance-optimized resources – without creating storage silos
- Only Nimble Storage has cloud-based deep data analytics that shows you what’s going on in your VDI Infrastructure, and what’s contributing to performance – at the click of a button, from any web browser. Server-centric view of performance, more relevant or people who worry about applications. With Infosight Predictive Analytics you can accurately forecast future capacity, performance, and bandwidth needs, and eliminate planning guesswork. Prescriptive guidance ensures optimal long term performance. InfoSight is the machine learning intelligence that enables the unique Nimble Storage “Predictive Flash” platform Infosight answers questions like: What is our current growth rate? When will we likely need more storage capacity? How do we report back to the business? Accurately forecasts future capacity, performance and bandwidth needs esp. for complex workloads like VDI
- SmartStack – Integrated Infrastructure solution from Nimble and Cisco. Made possible due to our strategic alliance, which dates back 2012 Nimble storage is in over 100 Demo centers in Cisco offices worldwide Integrate Infrastructure provides Speed, Scale, Simplicity to Solution deployment. Whether VDI or for many other validated solutions
- SmartStack is the first integrated infrastructure solution to leverage a predictive, flash-based storage platform •Based on a validated reference architecture that makes it flexible and extensible HARDWARE Compute: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS); Blade chassis: B-series (UCS and UCS Mini); Modular servers: M-Series; Rack servers: C-series Network: Cisco Fabric Interconnects: iSCSI - Direct connect and via upstream Nexus switch Fibre Channel - Larger FC installations: via upstream Nexus ; and/or Director-class switches; Smaller FC environments: via local zoning (UCS Mini only) Storage: Nimble Storage Predictive Flash platform: Adaptive Hybrid Arrays: CS-Series; All-Flash Arrays: AF-Series; InfoSight SOFTWARE •It can support a number of workloads – VDI, but also Business Applications, Databases, to Collaboration, File sharing •Full stack management & orchestration can be achieved with Cisco UCS Director. Fast deployment with Nimble SmartSetup, and Predictive analytics with InfoSite JOINT TESTING & SUPPORT CVDs; Cisco and Nimble joint support model.
- Specific info on our most recent SmartStack for Citrix VDI. Foundation for simple, cost effective and scalable VDI –support for 1000’s of users in a single 3U storage system Uses Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp UCS B-Series & C-Series Servers with UCS Manager Cisco Nexus & Catalyst Ethernet Switches Nimble Storage CS-Series Pre-validated Reference Architecture combines best of breed technology, reduce risk & deployment time “Cookbook methodology” – provides speed and confidence for your VDI deployment SmartSetup - Setup entire stack in <30minutes. UCS Director - Centralized monitoring/mgmt. for compute+storage. Inventory and Provisioning, Rollback, Management and Reporting, new workflows. Nimble Infosight - VMvision monitors the entire stack up to individual VMs The new CVD – pictured here – 400 pages. Just published. Available through the Nimble and Cisco websites. Nimble also has produced other related CVDs and reference architectures.
- Gateway Health serves Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable citizens: facing chronic diseases, the disabled, aging, and financially disenfranchised. Established 1992 as an alternative to Pennsylvania’s Dept. of Public Welfare’s Medical Assistance Program, Gateway Health provides members services for disease management, health and wellness programs, and preventive care. Gateway Health is a top-ranked managed care organization serving over 300,000 customers. Customer Goals - Improve performance of existing VDI environment; Reduce time to process data for Oracle; Simplify storage management and administration Solution – SmartStack w/Nimble Storage CS-Series™ arrays; Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp; Nimble Storage InfoSight™ Business Benefits - Reduced VDI login times by 33 percent; Eliminated latency issues in the desktop virtualization stack; Liked VDI performance so much they moved other apps to Nimble. Improved performance of Oracle by 50 percent; Enhanced data protection and disaster recovery using Nimble snapshots and replication; Achieved a 50 percent reduction in datacenter space; Eliminated the need to re-write code to improve application performance; Improved manageability and accuracy of storage information with InfoSight
- Another measure of validation is the range of accolades that we have received. For example, last year, we were voted the winner in the “Most Innovative Flash Technology” category. We were 6th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. We are most proud to be named a leader in the Gartner MQ for general purpose storage. No storage company has made it into the leader’s quadrant in general purpose storage in the last two decades.