Vblock™ Systems for End User Computing

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Agenda

Why VCE? Why EUC? Why Flash? VCE VblockTM Specialized Systems for Extreme Applications Hardware acceleration options Total Package!

Value to Enterprise CustomersExtend the VCE Experience to Massive VDI Environments

Desktop Virtualization

Workload

VMware Horizon

Citrix XenDesktop

Desktone

ApplicationsHigh Availability

Lower TCO

High Performance

Predictability

Vblock™ Specialized SystemsArchitected for Extreme Applications (VDI)

Extend the VCE experience to massive VDI/EUC initiatives.

Low cost. Easy to manage. High performance.

Unsurpassed VDI user experience (UX) with sub-millisecond response time

Shatters price/performance barrier with all-flash technologyand inline data reduction

Lifecycle System Assurance Simplified administration Low TCO per virtual desktop

VDI Deployment Challenges

VDI

Cost and business case Complexity of deployment

and management Sub-optimal end-user

desktop experience

Mixed or Storage constrained

Small, Pure VDI Deployments

EUC Platform PositioningThe right platform for the right use case

ROBO deployments Small mixed workload Platform for Mirage/Horizon

Vblock 200

Med – Large Mixed Workload Horizon Workspace Mirage

Vblock 340

Large – Huge Mixed Workload Horizon Workspace Mirage

Vblock 740

Large SCALE (1k – ∞) VDI Smaller “Power User” Mixed OK. Watch storage!

XAPP*

*Vblock Specialized Systems for Extreme Applications

Better user experiencevia faster response time

Efficient storage utilization to lower operational costs

Right-sizedinfrastructure that deploys easily,scales linearly

Messaging and Proof Points

Performance PredictabilityCost Effective

Why End User Computing (EUC)?It’s not about VDI anymore

The Year of VDI… Never Was, Never Will Be

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Invented VCE’s own Spencer Critchlow) is just reaching maturity in terms of customer needs Cost Effectiveness Performance

Software as a Service (SaaS) will rapidly obviate the need for most general productivity apps on a desktop OS

Cloud and Enterprise file sharing and storage are huge growth areas

Next-Gen EUC environments will be a mixture of all the above

Mobility/Consumerization of IT/BYODStaying Relevant with EUC

Q2: Which of the following initiatives are likely to be your firm’s top employee workspace/telecom/mobility priorities over the next 12 months?

Base: 325 Global Senior IT Decision-makersSource: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco, May 2012

76%

77%

70%

69%

66%

63%

Implement/expand application or desktop virtualization programs

Develop/implement a Mobile Device Management strategy

Implement or expand ourunified communications (UC) solution(s)

Develop/implement an employee BYOD policy for smartphones/tablets and other devices

Move communications applications to the cloud (SaaS mobile apps, Security-as-a-Service)

Increase our central IT budget for employee workspace, telecom, and/or mobility initiatives

The Horizon Suite Enables the Virtual Workspace

VMware Horizon

The Secure, Mobile

Enterprise Platform

VMware Horizon™ Suite

VMware Horizon View™

Simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control

VMware Horizon Mirage™

Gain centralized physical/virtual desktop management

VMware Horizon Workspace™

Streamline the end-user experience with a secure multi-device mobile workspace for IT services

Desktone Workspace Models for All Use Cases

Provision & Manage Entitlements

User SessionNon-persistentDesktop

ApplicationsVDIPersistentDesktop

RDS

RDS Desktops RemoteAppWindows 7/8

Citrix Components for EUC

AccessApps & Data

Manage Enterprise Mobility

Mobilize Apps & Desktops

Receiver™

ShareFile™

XenMobile™

Worx™

XenApp™

XenDesktop™

XenClient™

Why Flash?

Flash Storage for EUCRethinking Core Design Criteria

Non-proprietary Hardware

Software-defined

Sub-millisecond Data Services

Flash-optimized

Linear Scale-Out Architecture

Inherently Balanced

Flash Changes the RulesBut make sure you have the right features, ask the right ?’s

Other Flash Arrays VCE XAPPPerformance/Capacity Scaling Fixed Scale-Out*Performance and Latency Inconsistent under load

Inconsistent as array fillsAlways consistent

Primary Deduplication(if available)

Post-process designKills performance

Real-time designImproves performance

Data Protection Standard RAID Flash-specific, performance,and endurance enhancing

Capacity Utilization Poor ExcellentCost Expensive CompellingAdministration/Tuning Complex Ultra-simple

FAST Suite—FAST VP + FAST CacheDRAM Cache

FAST Cache

FLASH FLASHFLASHFLASH

FAST Virtual Pool

NL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SAS

FAST VP Tiers across drives in pool

Optimizes drive utilization Relative ranking over time 256MB slices ideal for

deterministic data

FAST Cache Copies hottest data to Flash

Optimizes Flash utilization Dynamic movement in near

real time 64 KB sub-slices ideal for

bursty data

F A S T S U I T E

SAS SAS SAS SAS

FLASH FLASH

Why XtremIO for EUC?

Latency and throughput remain consistent Average latencies < 1ms are typical

The XtremIO is a scale-out architecture based on X-Brick units Performance scales linearly with X-Brick count 1, 2, and 4

Inline data reduction No garbage collection

XtremIO proprietary XDP High performance

Low overhead

High performance, inline data reduction, thin provisioning, and fullVMware VAAI integration

Performance

Scalability

Efficiency

Data Protection

Functionality

Why Vblock™ Specialized Systemsfor Extreme Applications?

VDI Storage Challenges

Don’t let your VDI project fail Storage is the #1 reason for stalls and abandonment

#1 on user experience

on cost and business case

on complexityIMPACT

4K

4K4K

4K

Full Copy On XtremIO

Free Lunch

Data on SSD

X-copy Command

In-memory Metadata

EUC Breakthroughs with Flash

Simple administration—I do what I want… Minimal flash capacity for each new desktop “MacBook Air” user experience—huge IOPS/desktop Mix Linked Clones and Full Clones with same user experience Near instant desktop rollouts—when I want! Scale to massive numbers of desktops Cost effective and powerful with VCE™ Support and engineering

Now What?Engineer and Build It!

VCE Vblock™ Specialized Systems forExtreme Applications >> ∑parts

Engineered to the highest performance specs Updated management switches with integrated 10G Rack mounted servers for management infrastructure

Reserve blades for high performance and density Isolate Management and View infrastructure from desktops

Flexible processor and RAM configuration Custom cable harness and rack layout Optional EMC Isilon option for scale-out NAS (user data/persona)

One-Rack System

Components3x C220s2x 3064T1x VNXe3150

2x 5548UP2x 6248 1x Xbrick3x UCS 510824x UCS

B-Series(Half-width) Blades

1RU Cable Management

1RU Cable Management

2RU Cable Pass-through

2RU Cable Pass-through

1RU N3064T Switch1RU N3064T Switch2RU VNXe 31503RU 3x C220M3

6RU XtremIO Xbrick

1RU 1x N5548UP1RU 1x N5548UP1RU 1x 62481RU 1x 6248

18RU 3x UCS 5108 Chassis

Logical Diagram

Two-Rack System

Components4x C220s2x 3064T1x VNXe3300

2x 5548UP2x 6248 2x Xbricks6x UCS 510848x B-Series

(Half-width)Blades

1RU Patch Panel1RU Cable Management2RU N3064T Switch4RU 4x C220M32RU VNXe 3300

1RU N5548UP2RU Cable Pass-through1RU 6248

18RU 3x UCS 5108

2RU Infiniband Switch2RU 2x Storage SPs

2RU DAE (25 drives)2RU 2x UPS2RU 2x Storage SPs

2RU DAE (25 drives)2RU 1x UPS

1RU N5548UP2RU Cable Pass-through1RU 6248

18RU 3x UCS 5108

Logical Diagram

Complete* VDI Offer

ONE RACK

UP TO

3,500DESKTOPS

IN ONE SYSTEM

TWO RACKS

UP TO

7,000DESKTOPS

IN ONE SYSTEM

OPTIONAL ISILON STORAGE ARRAYFOR USER AND APPLICATION DATA

VMware View Results

*No VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations Integration available

ONE RACK

UP TO

2,500DESKTOPS

IN ONE SYSTEM

TWO RACKS

UP TO

5,000DESKTOPS

IN ONE SYSTEM

OPTIONAL ISILON STORAGE ARRAYFOR USER AND APPLICATION DATA

*No VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations Integration available

NOTE: Citrix capacity estimates are based on Reference Architectures from investor companies. Actual customer capacities are based on requirements

Complete* VDI Offer Citrix XD Results

What Else You Got? Acceleration!

Graphics Use Case

GPU PCoIP Oil and Gas EMR 3D CAD/CAE (Solidworks,

AutoCAD, CREO, etc.) Video Rendering

Multimedia Environments Flash Video

GPU 4 Kepler GPUs 2 High End Kepler GPUsCUDA cores 768 (192 / GPU) 3072 (1536 / GPU)Memory Size 16GB DDR3 (4GB / GPU) 8GB GDDR5Max Power 130 W 225 WForm Factor Dual Slot ATX, 10.5” Dual Slot ATX, 10.5”Display IO None NoneAux power requirement 6-pin connector 8-pin connectorPCIe x16 x16PCIe Generation Gen3 (Gen2 compatible) Gen3 (Gen2 compatible)Cooling solution Passive Passive# users 4–1001 2–641

Watts per user ~1.5 W ~3.5 WOpenGL 4.x 4.x Microsoft DirectX 11 11 VGX Hypervisor support Yes Yes

1Number of users depends on software solution, workload, and screen resolution

NVIDIA GRID K1 NVIDIA GRID K2

GRID Reference ArchitectureUser NVIDIA

GRID Hypervisor Virtual Desktop Agent Recommended Configuration

Designer K2

XenServer 6.1 XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 (with HDX 3D Pro) 4 Users

2 GRID K2 boardsDual socket server64+ GB system memoryESXi 5.1 with vDGA

View 5.x orXenDesktop 5.6 FP1 (with HDX 3D Pro)

Power User K1

XenServer 6.1 XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 (with HDX 3D Pro) 8 Users

2 GRID K1 boardsDual socket server96 GB system memoryESXi 5.1 with vDGA

View 5.x orXenDesktop 5.6 FP1 (with HDX 3D Pro)

Knowledge Worker K1

XenServer 6.1 XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 (with HDX 3D Pro) 8–32+ Users

2 GRID K1 boardsDual socket serverMinimum 128 GB system memory

ESXi 5.1 with vSGA View 5.x

Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V Remote FX

PCoIP Hardware Accelerator forVMware Horizon ViewMonitors all displays and dynamically offloads up to the most active 100

Off-loads PCoIP encoding tasks from the server’s CPU

30%–50% CPU usage

reduction

ConsolidationRatio Benefit

ConsistentUser Experience

Software EncoderAPEX Encoder

Hardware Accelerator Works with the GPU

Consistent user experience

Improves consolidation ratio

Better application compatibility and local user experience

Unlocks the full potential of the GPU experience

Frees CPU resources for applications and other users

HardwareAccelerator GPU

HardwareAccelerator+ GPU

Complementary, notmutually exclusive

When vCPU is overloaded and cannotdeliver the best user experience

When GPU is generating too many pixelsfor the soft encoder to handle

Important as workloads become moreunpredictable with VDI becoming mainstream

Up to 2x with heavy graphics workload

Hardware Accelerator Benefits

Features Benefits

Deliver bestuser experience

Protect and ensurea consistent user experience

Increaseconsolidation ratio

Graphics Acceleration in VMware Horizon View

Heavy User Many Applications

Light User Fewer Applications

Task WorkerVDI desktop

Knowledge WorkerVDI desktop

Power UserVDI desktop

Basic data entry usage Standard productivity tools Some compute intensiveapps, require some

graphics performance

VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT REMOTE WORKSTATION

Workstation-classperformance for computewith dedicated graphics

1:1 Physical

Workstations1 GPU per user

GPU Pass-through(vDGA)

VDIShared GPU

(vSGA)

VDINo Graphics Acceleration

(Soft 3D)

+

+

Power UserHigh-end Workstation

Image Quality/Interactivity/

Cost per Seat/2D–3D

VCE Solution Offering

Requires T2/T3 Approval

2x nVidia K2 + Apex 2800 w/ CNA

Total Package:Validation Testing Highlights

Highlights

Spectacular desktop performance Outstanding Login VSI user experience test results 7,000 desktops with average vDisk latency under 1ms Storage latency so low that many VMware tools can’t even capture it

Easy and fast-to-deploy X-Brick systems Simple architecture

Support for large LUNs Storage over-provisioning and inline data reduction make sizing easy

Extremely fast desktop pool provisioning Deployment velocity for the sixth and seventh 1,000-seat pool were just as good as the first!

Record-setting pool recompose efficiency 3–5x more efficient than traditional storage arrays Pool maintenance operations have very little impact on existing user populations—no need

to schedule these activities on nights and weekends

Horizon View on XtremIO—Highlights

1 hour, 15 minutes

1,000 Linked Clones

Deployed

1 hour, 45 minutes

15 minutes

1,000 Linked Clones

Recomposed

1,000 Linked Clones

Start-up

Note: Measurements with 7K desktops deployed and 50% background workload

Horizon View on XtremIO—Highlights

6,432Login VSI Max1. 7,000 active sessions2. Represents 100% session soncurrency

0.9 ms

3.5 TB

Front-endDatastore Latency

Total Storage Footprint

Amazing Inline Data Reduction!

From 0 to 7000 Desktops Powered-onand Ready in View

0 500 1500 2500 3500 4500 5500 6500 70000

20406080

100120140

# Desktops Ready in View

Min

utes

X-Brick DashboardsDuring 1000-seat Recompose

70K IOPs!

1000 MB/s!

Executive Overview and Recommendation

Flash is top of mind for EUC and high performance XtremIO is a game changer for EUC projects with VDI VCE has a great design and price point VCE has the Extreme Apps that customers are implementing

VMware Horizon View Citrix XD Desktone

Simple to DeployFast to Operate

Lower Than Physical

Desktop Cost

AnyDeployment Model(Linked or Full Clones)

UnparalleledUser Experience

VCE Vblock for Extreme ApplicationsVDI Bliss in 4 Easy Steps

Solve a Problem

Cheaper, better, faster. Pick three.

Cheaper

VDI is finally CAPEX savings

No more storage analysis paralysis

No compromises, unreal UX

IOPS to burn

Datacenter space efficient

Better Faster