Horizon 6 pilot accelerator appliance

1. Horizon 6 Pilot
Accelerator Appliance
Mike Brennan
Desktop Virtualization Performance Solutions Team
Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server with Local Storage

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Challenges for Desktop Virtualization PoCs and Pilot
Programs
 Required Planning
 High costs for PoC/Pilot equipment
 Complexity
 Component Integration
 Management
 End User Acceptance
 Will it work???

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Meet the Challenges with an all-in-one Cisco
UCS C240 M3 Rack Server Pilot Accelerator!
 Do more with less…
 Eliminates complexity challenge
 Eliminates integration challenge
 Cisco provides prescriptive procedures for
deployment
 Validated architecture
 Validated end user experience
 Unified storage and compute solution
 Guarantees your solution, deployed as described
will work!

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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server Compute Portfolio
Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System
Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise
UCS C220 M3
Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise
Infrastructure, and Application Server
Enterprise Performance
UCS C240 M3
Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP,
and Database Applications
Compute Intensive/Mission Critical
UCS C24 M3
Entry, Expandable Rack Server for
Storage Intensive Workloads
UCS C22 M3
Entry Rack Server for Distributed and
Web Infrastructure Applications
Scale Out
UCS C460 M4
Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large,
CPU-Intensive Applications

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Unified computing
• Stateless computing model
• Network/storage/server policies centrally defined & deployed
• Centralize management of blades & rack servers
• Apply same server profiles blade or rack servers
• Centralized firmware deployment
• Reduce port costs by consolidating uplink data & management traffic
Entry Point to Unified Computing
• Lower initial price point than blades
• Supports all generation platforms
• Industry-leading Adapter FEX and VM FEX technology
Performance and innovation
• Multiple World Record Performance Benchmarks
• Integrated platform management- no host agents required
Benefits as a
Stand-
alone Server
Benefits
integrated
with
UCSM
Cisco UCS C-Series: Performance and Innovation
World’s only
stateless
rack serversCISCO 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
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
1/10 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
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

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 Single Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Servers
 Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 Processors
 384 GB of 1866 MHz RAM
 LSI Nytro MegaRAID Controller + 12 – 600GB 10K HDDs
 Completely Standalone Capability
 Active Directory, SQL, vCenter, User Data
 Horizon View 5.3 Connection, Replica and Composer Servers
 200 Floating Assignment Linked Clone Windows 7 VMs
 Amazing End User Experience
 Great Economics
 Expandable Solution
Horizon View 5.3 Pilot Accelerator Solution Highlights

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VMware Horizon View 5.3 on VMware ESXi 5.5 200
Seat Self Contained 200 Seat Pilot Accelerator
Design Highlights: Logical Architecture 200 Seat Components
• (1) VMware vCenter
• (2) VMware Connection Servers
• (1) VMware Composer Server
• (6) Microsoft Server 2012
Infrastructure VMs
• (1) Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPUs
384GB 1866 MHz RAM
LSI Nytro MegaRAID controller
12 x 600 GB 10K RPM SAS
HDDs
• (2) Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switches
• Microsoft, VMware ESX, and View
Licenses
• Flat Network Architecture
• 10GB Ethernet with Cisco VIC 1225

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VMware Horizon View 5.3 on VMware ESXi 5.5 Self
Contained 200 Seat Pilot Accelerator
Design Highlight: Storage Layout
200 Hosted VDI Desktop and
Infrastructure per UCS C240 M3
Rack ServerPersistent and
Volatile Data
 Local Boot
 Infrastructure
Services
 MCS vDisk Master
Images
 MCS Differencing
Disks
 User Data
 User Profiles
Drives 0-3 RAID 5
VD0 – 20GB Boot
VD1 1.6TB Infra/
User Data
Drives 4-11 RAID 10
VD2 – 2.16TB MCS
Disk
(200GB Nytro cached)
Drives 4-7 RAID 0 Drives 8-11 RAID 0
0

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VMware Horizon View 5.3 on VMware ESXi 5.5 200
Seat Self Contained 200 Seat Architecture
Design Highlights: End User Experience

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VMware Horizon View 5.3 on VMware ESXi 5.5 200
Seat Self Contained 200 Seat Architecture
Design Highlights: Server CPU Utilization at Load
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LSI-NYTRO-01Physical Cpu(_Total)% Core Util Time

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VMware Horizon View 5.3 on VMware ESXi 5.5 200
Seat Self Contained 200 Seat Architecture
Design Highlights: On-Board Storage Metrics
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Disk(vmhba2:vmhba2:
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How do you get started?
• Google Cisco Pilot Accelerator for VMware Horizon View
• Download the Cisco Whitepaper at:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-
computing/ucs-c-series-rack-servers/whitepaper_C11-
732252.html
• Contact your Cisco Account Manager
• Contact your VMware Account Manager
• Visit http://www.cisco.com/go/vdi

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