Cisco VXI - Virtual eXperience Infrastructure

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Cisco VXI: Virtualized eXperience Infrastructure Marian Klas [email protected]

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"The worldwide hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market will accelerate through 2013 to reach 49 million units, up from more than 500,000 units in 2009, according to Gartner Inc.

Worldwide HVD revenue will grow from about $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion in 2009, which is less than 1 percent of the worldwide professional PC market, to $65.7 billion in 2013, which will be equal to more than 40 percent of the worldwide professional PC market."

- Gartner, Inc. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=920814

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Desktop Virtualization

Refers to the separation of the physical endpoint from the logical desktop

Endpoints may be variety of devices; applications are hosted where ever the best user experience is offered (locally at endpoint or at data center)

Access from the endpoint to the logical desktop is delivered through the network


Flexibility / Business Continuity

Total Cost of Ownership

Data Security

Desktop Virtualization Drivers

What We’ve Heard From Customers…

Fragmented Solution Set

Maintaining High Quality for Video, Voice Experience

Desktop Virtualization Challenges

Return on Investment

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• Protocols in the virtual desktop environment appear “monochrome” to QoS

• Lack of flow differentiation prevents prioritization within a display protocol stream

• Video stream competes with other flows in class – (e.g.: CIFS, SAMBA or NFS, )

T1

Branch Router

Data Center

Routing Protocol Updates

Display Protocol

CIFS

Branch Office

Video Source


End-users see pixelization as media is rendered from the data center

T1

Increasing bandwidth might not help

Video processed on HVD causing bandwidth and server compute overload

Branch Router

Branch Office

Data Center

Video Source

Campus

End-users experience no pixelization on LAN

Each “new” copy streamed

for each additional DV client

resulting in branch WAN

bandwidth overruns


• Hairpin Effect – causing undesirable results

• Monolithic data flows

• Voice/Video in the display protocol Media flow goes all the way back to data center and back

• Heavy processing on virtual desktop in data center

• Bandwidth explosion

• Display protocol and possible endpoint become unstable

Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop

CUCM WAN

Thin

Client

Display Protocol

Thin

Client

Display Protocol

Media Flow

Media Flow

Data Center

Signalling

(SIP)

Signalling

(SIP)


Cisco’s Vision for VXI

Deliver a superior collaboration and rich media user experience with best in class ROI in a fully integrated, open and validated desktop virtualization solution


Offer an enhanced user experience leveraging the network as a platform

Deliver an end-to-end system integrating Cisco with 3rd party technology

Drive ROI in the DC

What Cisco Sets Out to Do…

Optimized Video / Audio

Streaming Interactive

Validated End to End

System

Borderless Network Services

Security Power Mgmt

Branch Survivability

Scalable Data Center

UCS Compute Network

Virtualization DC ANS


End-to-End Security, Management and Automation

ISR

Data Center Network

WAAS

Branch

VDS ACNS/

WAAS

Nexus

ACE

Broker

Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI)

Virtualization

Endpoints

CUPC MS Office Video

Desktop Virtualization Software

Microsoft OS

Hypervisor

FC FC

VirtualCUCM

Virtual QUAD

End-to-End System

Endpoint Ecosystem

Virtualized Data Center

Virtualization Aware Network

Virtualized

Collaboration Workspace

Cisco

WAN

Wyse, Devon IT, iGEL

Desktop Virtualization Client


Unified Desktop Convergence Starts with the Desktop

2011 2011 +

• Enterprise Tablet

• Backpack & Stand-

alone form factors

• Adjunct to desk phone

• POE

• Embedded OS

• Display protocol

agnostic

• Integrated VDI Client

software

• Integrated UC

• Local media sharing

Cisco Zero Client Cisco Thin Client Cisco Powered Endpoint

• Cisco Enhanced VDI

with Rich Media

support for 3rd-party

endpoints

• Technology Partner

Endpoints

• Wyse – DevonIT –

IGEL

• Display protocol

agnostic

2010

Cisco Technology Partners: Wyse, DevonIT, IGEL

Cisco Zero Client: Initial offering for VDI in Campus/Branch

Cisco Thin Client: New endpoint options with improved media support

Cisco Powered Endpoint: Cisco UC software on 3rd party endpoints

Technology Partners


Unified Communications

Hardphone control for VXC

Softphone in Cius

Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) supported

Use local services (gateways, call control, vmail, etc.)

MMR for Streaming video delivery

Borderless Network

Use local internet access

Use CDS/ACNS/WAAS to cache, split, and/or multicast streaming media (MMR required)

Provide QoS for rich media

Data Center

No voice/video hairpinning

Offload server CPU

Offload server bandwidth

WAN / PSTN

SiSiSiSiSiSi SiSiSiSiSiSi

CUCM CUCM

UCS UCS

Broker Broker

Storage Storage

WAAS WAAS

SiSiSiSiSiSi SiSiSiSiSiSi

DMS

CDS CDS


Unified Desktop VDI ‘Backpack’ for 89xx/99xx IP Phones

Cisco Unified Desktop

Software

Zero Client

PCoIP Chipset

ICA/RDP Software

Interactive media outside display protocol

Hardware

2 Monitor

4 USB

Analog audio/video

Power Over Ethernet 802.3 AT


Unified Desktop VDI ‘Stand-Alone’ Form Factor

Non-Cisco Telephony Option

Software

Zero Client

PCoIP Chipset

ICA/RDP Software

Integates with any CTI capable UC client in datacenter

Hardware

2 Monitor

4 USB

Analog audio/video

Power Over Ethernet

Single display 802.3 AF

Dual display 802.3 AT


Unified Desktop Cius Anywhere Anytime VDI, UC, and Web

Software

Android 2.2

Cisco Unified Communications with SDK

Telepresence interoperability

Citrix Receiver/Wyse Pocket Cloud/

VMware View Client

Firefox browser

Email caching

Any Connect

Management/Security

Similar provisioning to IP Phone

Encrypted data

Managed wipe

Enterprise application store/mall


Unified Desktop Cius Anywhere Anytime VDI, UC, and Web

Hardware

Intel Atom 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB Flash

Dual independent display support

7” display internal (1024 H x 600 WSVGA)

HDMI external

Forward facing 720p HD camera

Rear facing 5 Mpixel VGA camera

Replaceable Battery

Docking stations with external Keyboard Video Mouse

Charging

Speaker

Speaker with handset

IEEE 802.3at PoE, class 4

Accelerometer, light sensor, SD, Mic/Speakers

Network

802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi for On/Off Campus Mobility

Seamless transition wired to wireless

3G/4G data services (future)


High-definition Video with Cisco Cius

Video Out

Keyboard/

Mouse

Virtual

Desktop

Cisco

Cius

HDMI

USB/BT

High-definition 720p video

Cisco TelePresence Interoperability

Built-in Cameras

Dual Independent Displays


VM-User 1

VM-User 2

CUCM

Unified Desktop Solving VDI + Video + Voice

Avoiding the Hairpinning Problem The Hairpinning Problem

Media flow goes all the way back to data center and back

Heavy processing on virtual desktop in data center

Latency

Jitter

VXI Cloud

Thin

Client

Desktop Virtualization Protocol

Thin

Client

Desktop Virtualization Protocol

Media Flow

Media Flow

Signalling

(SIP)

Signalling

(SIP)

Future Solution

User interacts with “soft client” on virtual desktop in data center

VDI communicator provides local client-to-client streaming of video / voice

Benefits

Bandwidth reduction

Reduced processing in data center, increase in VM blade density

High quality voice and video

Network handling real-time data (QOS, CAC)

Eliminates hairpinning of media through data center

Media

Flow

VDI

Communicator

VDI

Communicator

Signalling

(SIP)

Signalling

(SIP)

Data Center Citrix XenDesktop

2H

CY2011


Unified Desktop Cisco Rich Media Thin Client

Software

Integrated UC Voice + Video

Dual browser

Protocol agnostic (RDP, ICA, PCoIP)

SRST support

Headset control API

Hardware

Stand-alone & Backpack Form Factors

Power via Phone, PoE, or AC

2H

CY2011


Borderless Network Virtual Desktop Service (VDS)

Customer Benefits:

Hosted Desktop Architecture fix-up for rich media applications

No change needed at end-points for VDS deployment

Display protocol agnostic

VDS will leverage existing Cisco network services

VDS is targeted at zero or thin clients

2H

CY2011


Borderless Network VDS Gateway and WAAS

WAN

Disaggregates display protocol to differentiate the traffic types (USB, audio, video, print, etc.)

Goes direct to many media sources

LAN

Recombines display protocol and media streams to zero client

Provides local media hairpin when appropriate

A B C VDS UCS

Native Protocol Cisco Display Protocol

WAAS/CDS WAAS

Optimized Protocol Native Protocol

VDS

2H

CY2011


Key Takeaways: VXI

Validated end-to-end architecture

Open ecosystem with key technology partners

New set of desktop virtualization devices

Improved ROI on desktop virtualization deployment