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© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1
Arnaud BASSALER
CSE Datacenter & Virtualization EMEAR
Best Practices for Scaling Desktop Virtualization with Cisco UCS
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Customers Are Asking For More Flexibility, More Security, and More Efficiency
“Preventing data loss is
one of my top priorities.
Business data stored on
users’ computing
devices represents a big
risk.”
“To remain competitive,
our employees have to
be agile and so does
their technology. I need
to upgrade the OS and
applications for 15,000
devices as well as
reduce IT capital and
operating expense”
“I’m on the road half the
year and always getting
new devices. How can I
maintain a dependable
connection to my
desktop and keep my
data safe and
applications secure?”
“I want to simplify our
technology support and
speed up our
provisioning capabilities”
Business User CIO Data Center Manager
Systems Engineer
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Innovation Driving Virtual Desktop Performance and Scale
UCSManager
UnifiedFabric
VirtualInterface
Card
ExtendedMemory
Industry-LeadingDensity
Next Generation UCS Servers Enhance the Differentiation Along the Same Vectors
Next Generation UCS Servers Will Continue to Employ These Differentiated Features and Set New Standards for Performance and Value in the X86 Server Industry
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Cisco UCS advantageVirtual Desktop Scalability and Performance
Industry-Leading Density on 2-Socket Servers
• 186 Desktops on B200 M3**– Knowledge Worker Profile
– 384 G memory, Dual Xeon E5-2690/8-Core CPU
• 175 Desktops on B230 M2*– Knowledge Worker Profile
– 384 G memory, Dual E7-2870/10-Core CPU
• VMware Report: http://bit.ly/Ot9YnJ
* Principle Technologies Brief** Principle Technologies Brief
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UCS Virtual Desktops densityBlade14 Server
CPUServer
MemoryDesktop
ConfigurationPer
BladePer
ChassisPer Domain20 Chassis
B200-M1 Xeon 5570 2.93 GHz 48 GB WinXP 512 MB 128 1,024 20,480
B200-M1 Xeon 5570 2.93 GHz 96 GB WinXP 512 MB 160 1,280 25,600
B200-M1 Xeon 5570 2.93 GHz 96 GB WinXP 1024 MB 150 1,200 24,000
B200-M2 Xeon 5680 3.33 GHz 192 GB Win7-32 1.5 GB 110 880 17,600
B230-M2 Xeon E7-2870 2.40 GHz 384 GB Win7-64 2.0 GB 175 1,400 28,000
B200-M3 Xeon E5-2690 2.90 GHz 384 GB Win7-64 1.5 GB 184 1,472 29,440
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Bandwidth usage
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IO PlanningUCS Chassis• Storage (in and outbound)
20 IOPS per desktop at 4K Bytes EA671 Kbps EA (assume 1 Mbps)1 Gbps for 1000 HVDs in UCS blade chassisAssume 1 Mbps per HVD
• Network Display (mostly outbound)Assume 1 Mbps per desktop1 Gbps for 1000 HVDs in UCS blade chassis
• Desktop Protocols (mostly inbound)Estimate 8 Mbps which opens 25MB in 25 seconds and handles streaming and interactive video8 Gbps for 1000 HVDs in UCS blade chassis
• Total10 Mbps per HVD for storage, display, and desktop protocols10 Gbps for 1000 HVDs in UCS blade chassis
Hypervisor
Server
HVD-1 HVD-1000
AppVirt
APP
AppVirt
APP
AppVirt
APP
AppVirt
APP
BIOS (UCS Service Profile)
Network (LAN/SAN)
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Availability and Fault Domains
• Client – 1 user
• Branch Switch – Up to 250
• Building or WAN – 2 to 1,000
• SLB – 2,000 to 20,000
• Broker – Up to 1000
• UCS Blade – Up to 186
• UCS Chassis – Up to 1,472
• Storage – 1 to 10,000
Client Broker UCS StorageWAN WAE ACEWAELAN
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Desktop Virtualization Prioritization and QOS pools
Silver Pool30% BandwidthFC with max burst 32k
Bronze Pool20% BandwidthFC with max burst of 16K
Platinum Pool50% BandwidthLossless Ethernet NFSMax burst 64K
• QoS controls for tuning Storage & Network flows—Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, best effort, FC QoS Classes
• Multi-cast optimizations
• Bandwidth controls
• Lossless Ethernet—drop/no drop
• Burst size controls
ServerBlade
Hypervisor
Cisco VIC
FEX 2200
FI 6200
VMVMVM VMVM VMVM Bronze PoolPlatinum Pool Silver Pool
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Desktop Pools with QoS on UCS
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Dynamic Platform Provisioning with Service Profiles
• Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings
• Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components
• Service profile templates allow rapid provisioning ofnew virtual desktops
Chassis-8/Blade-4Chassis-1/Blade-2
Profile 1 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b…MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FCWWN: 5080020000075740Boot Order: SAN, PXE
Profile 2 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5d…MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FFWWN: 5080020000075742Boot Order: SAN
Cisco UCS Manager
Profile 3 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5f…MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FBWWN: 5080020000075744Boot Order: PXE, SAN
LAN SAN
Desktop Profile 1120 Knowledge | HVD Win 7
B200 M3 192GBLAN ConnectivitySAN Connectivty
Boot Order
Desktop Profile 2140 Task | XenApp CRM
B200 M2 48GBLAN ConnectivitySAN Connectivity
Boot Order
Desktop Profile 3100 Power | HVD Win 7
B230 M2 384GBLAN ConnectivitySAN Connectivity
Boot Order
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Data Center Optimizations for Virtual Desktops
Application Performance OptimizationsVM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Tier-0 Storage on ServerIOPS and storage optimizations
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / WorkloadsUCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Rapid Provisioning of DesktopsService profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Desktop Density and ScalabilityGreat virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Networking Visibility and Security to the DesktopsNexus 1000V with VSG and VM-FEX provide VM level controls
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Information You Can Use!
http://bit.ly/Ot9YnJ
186 desktops on B200M3 with VMware View 5
Desktop Virtualization QoS & Manageability
http://bit.ly/J3lSn4
Cisco Validated Designs for Desktop Virtualization
http://bit.ly/J3n9uk▲
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More on Cisco.com:• cisco.com/go/vdi• cisco.com/go/vdidesigns
Thank you.