Roger boesch xen desktop mit cisco

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Philipp Müller – PSS Data Center Cisco Systems

November 2012

Roger Bösch – Systems Engineer Citrix Systems


1 Why

Platform value

2 3 What How

Business Use Cases

Best Practices


Cisco and Citrix Alliance Mission

Lead the market in delivering rich end-user virtual experiences in enterprise & cloud computing.


Storage

Virtualization-Aware Borderless Network

Virtualized Data Center Virtualized Collaborative Workspace

vWAAS

Nexus

ACE

MS Office

Desktop Virtualization Software

Microsoft OS

Hypervisor

Cisco Collaboration Applications

Virtual Quad

Virtual Unified CM

Campus/Branch

ISR

WAAS

Access Switching w/

PoE SiSi

ZERO CLIENT Cisco VXC 2100 & 2200

THIN CLIENT Cisco VXC 6215

Centralized Policy Management with Cisco ISE

XenDesktop

WAAS SOFTWARE APPLIANCE Cisco VXC 4000

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Scalability & Performance 1

Rapid Provisioning of Desktops 2

Networking Visibility & Security 3

Storage & I/O Optimizations 4


•  Scalability & Performance

•  End to End Networking

•  Rapid Deployment & Mobility

•  Unified Management

•  Lower TCO/Rapid ROI

Mem

ory

CPU

Unified Fabric (FCoE)


Application Performance Optimizations VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance

Tier-0 Storage on Server IOPS and storage optimizations

Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools

Rapid Provisioning of Desktops Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools

Desktop Density and Scalability Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability

Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops Nexus 1000V with VSG and VM-FEX provide VM level controls


Desktop Density and Scalability Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability


•  175 Desktops on B230 M2* • Knowledge Worker Profile

(Medium Workload with LoginVSI 3.0) •  384 G memory, Dual E7-2870 / 10 Core

CPU

•  182 Desktops on B200 M3** • Knowledge Worker Profile

(Medium Workload with LoginVSI 3.0) •  384 G memory, Dual Xeon E5-2690 8-Core CPU

* Principle Technologies Brief

** Principle Technologies Brief

Industry-leading Density on

2-socket servers***

Fastest Desktop boot Process 5000 desktops in 30 minutes Optimized XenApp Delivery 208 Sessions per B200 M3


Rapid Provisioning of Desktops Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools


Storage SME

Server SME

Network SME

•  Subject matter experts consumed by manual configuration chores

•  Serial processes and multiple

touches inhibit provisioning speed •  Configuration drift and

maintenance challenges

•  FC Fabric assignments for HBAs

•  RAID settings •  Disk scrub actions

•  Number of vHBAs •  HBA WWN

assignments •  FC Boot Parameters •  HBA firmware

•  Number of vNICs •  PXE settings\ •  NIC firmware •  Advanced feature settings

•  VLAN assignments for NICs •  VLAN tagging config for NICs

•  QoS settings •  Border port assignment

per vNIC •  NIC Transmit/Receive

Rate Limiting

•  Remote KVM IP settings •  Call Home behavior •  Remote KVM firmware

•  Server UUID •  Serial over LAN settings •  Boot order •  IPMI settings •  BIOS scrub actions •  BIOS firmware •  BIOS Settings

LAN SAN


•  Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings •  Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components •  Service profile templates allow rapid provisioning of

new virtual desktops

Chassis-8/Blade-4 Chassis-1/Blade-2

Profile 1 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b… MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, PXE

Profile 2 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5d… MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FF WWN: 5080020000075742 Boot Order: SAN

Profile 3 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5f… MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FB WWN: 5080020000075744 Boot Order: PXE, SAN

LAN SAN

Desktop Profile 1 120 Knowledge | HVD Win 7

B-250 192GB LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivty

Boot Order

Desktop Profile 2 140 Task | ThinAppOLTP

B-200 48GB LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivity

Boot Order

Desktop Profile 3 100 Power | HVD Win 7

B-230 384GB LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivity

Boot Order

Cisco UCS Manager


Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops Nexus 1000V with VSG and VM-FEX provide VM level controls


•  Higher performance with hypervisor by-pass (VM-FEX)

•  Statistics/Monitoring of VMs •  Debugging/SPAN of VM traffic •  Network policy mgmt - QoS, B/W

Hypervisor

Cisco VIC

FEX 2200

FI 6200

Debugging/vSPAN of XenApp VM

Server Blade

Software Switch VM-FEX (Hypervisor Bypass)


DESIGNER (CATIA, CS6, Inventor)

POWER USER (PLM, Med Img, Showcase)

TASK WORKER (Call Center Apps)

KNOWLEDGE WORKER (MS Office, Photoshop)

Dedicated PC or WS

1 : 1

GPU : User

CPU Graphics

0 : n

GPU : User

GPU Pass through

1 : 1

GPU : User

API Intercept

1 : n GPU : User

NVIDIA VGX

1 : n

GPU : User



Unified Management 1

Network QoS 2


LAN SAN A SAN B

Mgmt

Citrix Dynamic Desktop Controller Citrix Provisioning Services

Citrix 3D PRO with NVDIA VGX Citrix XenApp Farm

Application Tier Servers

Citrix XenDesktop Farm

One Logical Chassis to Manage* LAN Connectivity SAN Networking Blade Chassis’ Server Blades Rack Servers

Server Identity Management Monitoring, Troubleshooting

*160 servers managed in a single domain as a logical chassis


Silver Pool 30% Bandwidth FC with max burst 32k Bronze Pool 20% Bandwidth FC with max burst of 16K

Platinum Pool 50% Bandwidth Lossless Ethernet NFS Max 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

Server Blade

Hypervisor

Cisco VIC

FEX 2200

FI 6200

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Bronze Pool Platinum Pool Silver Pool


Validated: Cisco Validated Designs for Desktop Virtualization Take the guesswork out of Desktop Virtualization

•  Prescriptive guidance for designing your infrastructure for scalability, performance and TCO efficiency

•  Design Guides for Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, and storage partners EMC, NetApp

•  cisco.com/go/vdidesigns


B230 M2 B230 M2

B230 M2 B230 M2

B230 M2 B230 M2

B230 M2 B230 M2 vNIC

VM_Data-A vHBA 1 vHBA 2vNICMGMT-A

vNICMGMT-B

vNICVM_Data-B

vNICIP_Storage-A

vNICIP_Storage-B

vNICVM_Motion-A

vNICVM_Motion-B

vif 0 vif 1 vif 2 vif 3 vif 4 vmnic 5 vmnic 6 vmnic 7

VM_Data Bond IP_Storage BondMGMT Bond VM_Motion Bond

Storage Multipathing

Vmhba 0

Vmhba 1

XenServer 6.0.2 on UCS B200-M3 Blade

Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC)

vSwitch

Ethernet Switch NPV

Fabric Interconnect – A

vEth1 vEth2 vEth3 vEth4

Ethernet Switch NPV

Fabric Interconnect – B

vEth1 vEth2 vEth3 vEth4

VNTAGs through Fabric Extender A VNTAGs through Fabric Extender B

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Rolls in to your Datacenter ! 2 Power Plugs, 2 LAN Plugs, 2 SAN Plugs ….. and your LAN/SAN/Server Test-‐Architecture for hundreds of VM’s is ready in a couple of hours


1.  Running Citrix on Cisco UCS brings you efficiency, agility, security and it will make

things easier again

2.  Cisco and Citrix have a strong partnership. Its joint solutions are documented in

validated designs, which reduces project risks

3.  It is a proven technology used by many successful companies


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Roger boesch xen desktop mit cisco