Cisco Knowledge Network - Data Center Desktop as a Service Phil Lowden (plowden@cisco.com) Dec 12, 2017

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Agenda Quick Overview VDI Industry Unified Compute System, HyperFlex Cisco DaaS/VDI Citrix, VMWare DaaS CVD Overview 5000 Seat FlexPod with Horizon on B200 M5 Reference Architecture Parting thoughts, Q&A Wrap-Up

Benefits of the Digital Workplace 1 Greater compliance and more protection for intellectual property 2 Lower infrastructure costs 3 Allows IT to focus on core business 4 Simpler lifecycle management 5 Designed for mobile 6 Easier and more effective collaboration Simpler lifecycle management with easier installation and upgrades

TCO for Desktop and App Virtualization Key Performance Improvements Realized from Customers Who Deployed Cisco’s Desktop and Application Virtualization Solution Source: IDC, Document #258399 Reduction of total cost of computing: Reduction in user’s lost time: Reduction in staff time needed for keeping the lights on: 40% 53% 14%

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Agenda Quick Overview VDI Industry Unified Compute System, HyperFlex Cisco DaaS/VDI Citrix, VMWare DaaS CVD Overview 5000 Seat FlexPod with Horizon on B200 M5 Reference Architecture Parting thoughts, Q&A Wrap-Up

UCS GPU Portfolio with M5 Servers UCS Integrated for accelerated VDI Cloud VDI Available UCSM 3.1.3 Available Available Aug 2017 UCS M6 Blade GPU For M4 only - General Purpose, Enterprise Class NVIDIA GPU for Remote Knowledge Workers, Task Workers and Designers UCS P6 Blade GPU For M5 Blades – Doubles user density for Remote Knowledge Workers, Task Workers and Designers UCS NVIDIA M60 For M4 only - Ultimate choice for Remote Engineering Workstations and Application Delivery via the Cloud UCS NVIDIA M10 For M4 and M5 Servers. Accelerated Remote Desktop, Maximum User Density per Server UCS AMD 7150 x2 For M4 and M5 Servers based on SRIOV Accelerated Remote Desktop, Engineering workstation

Accelerate VDI projects GPUs improve VDI user experience Industry-leading GPU density Cisco UCS® B200 M5 Blade Server supports 2 GPUs Leading competitors support 1 Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server supports 4 GPUs Other vendors don’t support GPUs on 4-socket blade servers Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack Server supports 6 GPUs More users per server, rack unit, and watt reduces both CapEx and OpEx Accelerate VDI projects

Cisco HyperFlex: What’s New Cisco Live 2016 9/9/2018 Cisco HyperFlex: What’s New Simplify More New HX M5 Nodes, 40 Gbps Network, HyperFlex Edge for ROBO, All Flash (NVMe) HX Data Platform 2.6 Innovations in Data Protection, Security, Performance The New HyperFlex Connect Management Interface & Intersight Cloud Management HCI Performance for Business Critical Apps Multicloud Services

Cisco HyperFlex Systems VDI Solution Desktop and Application Virtualization Broker Hypervisor Network Layer Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform Talking Points What’s needed is the combination of convergence that allows you to change your infrastructure on a dime and VDI which permits you to have the security and access from anywhere. But the real challenge is getting something that is going to work. This slide lays out the logical view of a converged infrastructure and VDI solution. To be effective, any solution requires that it is fully integrated and tested to ensure the configuration across all the different technologies work properly together. T: This is what Cisco and Citrix have sought to do. Let’s look at how they have gone about that.

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Agenda Quick Overview VDI Industry Unified Compute System, HyperFlex Cisco DaaS/VDI Citrix, VMWare DaaS CVD Overview 5000 Seat FlexPod with Horizon on B200 M5 Reference Architecture Parting thoughts, Q&A Wrap-Up

Ecosystem Partners for Desktop and App Virtualization Comprehensive solutions optimized for SMBs through large enterprises Best of breed capabilities Accelerated ROI for the digital workplace Backed by Cisco and partner reference configurations

Cisco Validated Designs (CVD) Integrated Systematic Approach Selected Customer Engagements Gather end-to-end requirements Thought Leadership Incorporate best practices Product Development Integrated solution Tested and Validated For consistent delivery by partners System Development Guidelines Planning Design End-to-End Validation Documentation Unit Feature Integration System Customer Cisco’s validated design approach is a proven methodology for accelerated deployment and reduced risk of deployment. It is an integrated approach that is based on 4 key building blocks: Key Customer Engagements provides the understanding of the requirements and the needs Incorporates Thought Leadership that captures the best practices to effectively meet the needs of the customers Through Cross Platform collaboration within various BUs and through partners, the best of breed products are stitched together into a solution Systematic approach towards Execution by testing and validated designs against the customer use cases that can be leveraged on a repeatable basis by trained partners System Development Fundamentals includes the following steps: Planning: Understanding the target customer use cases & requirements Design: Design the right solution to meet the customer use cases and the providing the right modularity and flexibility in the solution End to End Validation: Through testing approach with Unit, Feature, Integration and System testing that simulates the actual customer deployment environment Documentation: Output of the System that can be deployed by the Customers

Desktop-as-a-Service for Service Provider 2000-Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_cvds_spdaas_ucs_2k.pdf Last Updated: April 8, 2015 Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.5 built on Cisco UCS B200-M3Blades with EMC VNX5600 and VMware vSphere 5.5 Morning Everyone, Thank you for attending the Flexpod 5000 users mixed workload CVD KB session.

Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_Horizon71.html Last Updated: July 25, 2017 VMWare Horizon 7.5 built on Cisco UCS B200-M4 Blades with Cisco HyperFlex AF and VMware vSphere 6.0u3 Morning Everyone, Thank you for attending the Flexpod 5000 users mixed workload CVD KB session.

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Agenda Quick Overview VDI Industry Unified Compute System, HyperFlex Cisco DaaS/VDI Citrix, VMWare DaaS CVD Overview 5000 Seat FlexPod with Horizon on B200 M5 Reference Architecture Parting thoughts, Q&A Wrap-Up

Cisco UCS, NetApp AFF A300 Storage System and VMware Horizon 5000 Seat Mixed Workload Very Large Scale VMware Horizon Deployment on FlexPod Morning Everyone, Thank you for attending the Flexpod 5000 users mixed workload CVD KB session.

Introduction to the 5000 User Solution Key benefits of Cisco UCS Desktop Virtualization Solution Overview and Design Goals Cisco UCS Component Overview NetApp Storage Component Overview Skylake 6140 processor Solution Architecture View Deployment methods Test Case Scenarios Performance Results Questions and Answers Learn More

5000 Mixed User FlexPod Solution Cisco UCS 6300 3rd Gen FIs NetApp AFF A300 Storage System VMware Horizon 7.3 RDS Hosted Sessions (RDSH) Instant Clone VDI Virtual Machines (VDI) Full Clone VDI Virtual Machines (VDI) 5000 Users Mixed Workload

Key Benefits of FlexPod for Desktop Virtualization Simple, Resilient Architecture for Deploying Desktop Virtualization ARCHITECTURE Linear Scalability and Performance from 100’s to 1000’s of Desktops Without a Change in Architecture SCALABILITY Providing the Right Balance of Memory, I/O, CPU and Storage Is the Key to Cost-Effective Scalability BALANCED SYSTEM Rapid Provisioning with Cisco UCS Manager, Policy based Service Profiles for Ease of Scale SIMPLICITY Reducing Risk and Accelerating Deployment Through Validation VALIDATED DESIGNS

Cisco Switching and Communications Hardware Cisco Nexus 9372PX L2/3 Switch Cisco MDS 9148s 16Gb FC Storage Switch Cisco UCS 6332-16 UP 3rd Gen Fabric Interconnect Cisco UCS VIC 1340 MLOM Cisco UCS B200 M5 2304 IO Module

Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server Designed for a wide range of workloads from web infrastructure to distributed database World-record performance Provides enterprise-level capabilities without configuration constraints What’s new for M5: Higher performance CPUs with up to 28 cores/socket (one or two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (aka Purley Skylake) Support for 3D XPoint memory (with post-FCS industry wide release) Bootable M.2 (SATA at FCS; NVMe post-FCS) flash options Dual GPU support 80 Gbps I/O 24 DIMMs slots

NetApp AFF A300 Storage System 2x storage controllers- Active/Active High Availability pair (up to 12 for FC, 24 for NAS) DS224c Disk chassis (up to 8) 24x 3.8TB SSD- 65TB usable / 130TB effective (2:1 efficiency) ______________________________ Up to 5PB usable / HA pair with 16TB drives Over 300K IOPs per HA pair – 5 rack units ONTAP 9.1 Supports 6 HA pairs per SAN cluster Up to 1.8M IOPs and over 30PB capacity Mix & match controllers and drives in cluster AFF A300 Front Image AFF A300 Rear Image AFF A300 Disk Shelf (DS224C)

Skylake 6140 Processors CPU Cores : 36 CPUs x 2.294 GHz Processor Type : Intel Xeon Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30 GHz Processor per sockets : 2 Cores per socket : 18 Logical Processors : 72

Master Image Configuration Server 2016 RDSH (Remote Desktop Server Sessions) Server Roles & Windows 10 64 Bit OS VDI Virtual Desktops (Non-Persistent and Persistent Virtual Desktops)

Windows Master Image Configuration for End User Desktop deployment Server 2016 Configuration for RDSH Server Roles 6 vCPU 24 GB RAM 40GB Hard Disk Additional Software Microsoft office 2016 Login VSI 4.1.25.6 (knowledge worker workload bench mark mode) Windows 10 64 Bit OS configuration for VDI Instant Clone pool 2 vCPU 2 GB RAM (memory allocated) 32GB Hard Disk Additional Software Microsoft office 2016 Login VSI 4.1.25.6 (knowledge worker workload bench mark mode) Windows 10 64 Bit OS configuration for VDI Full Clone pool 2 vCPU 2 GB RAM (memory allocated) 32GB Hard Disk Additional Software Microsoft office 2016 Login VSI 4.1.25.6 (knowledge worker workload bench mark mode)

VMware Horizon View Deployment Methods VMware Horizon View Composer based cloning (non persistent (Linked Clone) & persistent desktops/RDSH Server Sessions) VMware Horizon View Instant cloning (Non-Persistent VDI desktops/RDSH Server Sessions) View Horizon Composer based full virtual machine cloning (persistent VDI desktops) Basic flow diagram of how Composer VM & Instant Clone VM is created.

Instant Clones Composer Clones Full Clone View Composer Clone: The replica or the VM has to be copied initially with VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) may   Might generate more IOPS during process and continue to maintain same level of IOPs until deployment is complete. Instant Clone: Instant clone deployment might spike CPU during the initial stage of the replica cloning and generate more IOPs . Replica will be cloned without VAAI integration. Overall initial clone generate less IOPS for completing the deployment Less Deployment times with instant clones VMs ready for use instantly. Full Clone A full clone is an independent copy of a virtual machine that shares nothing with the parent virtual machine after the cloning operation. Ongoing operation of a full clone is entirely separate from the parent virtual machine Instant Clones The provisioning of instant clones is significantly faster than View Composer linked clones. Instant clones are always created in a powered-on state, ready for users to connect to. Guest customization and joining the Active Directory domain are completed as part of the initial power-on workflow. When a user logs out, the desktop VM is deleted. New clones are created according to the provisioning policy, which can be on-demand or up-front. With the push-image operation, you can re-create the pool from any snapshot of any parent VM. You can use a push image to roll out operating system and application patches. When clones are created, View selects a datastore to achieve the best distribution of the clones across the datastores. No manual rebalancing is necessary. View storage accelerator is automatically enabled. Transparent page sharing is automatically enable Composer Clones View Composer is a feature of Horizon with View which allows administrators to easily manage pools of similar desktops by creating golden master or parent images that share a common virtual disk. All cloned desktops linked to a parent image can be patched or updated through View Administrator by simply updating the single master image, without affecting users’ settings, data, or applications.

VMware Horizon View 5000 User Mixed Scale Flexpod Test Performance 1680 Windows 2016 R2 RDS Hosted Server Sessions 3320 Windows 10, 64-bit non - persistent & Persistent Virtual Desktops VMware Horizon 7 provisioned RDSH Server Sessions & VDI non-persistent Desktops Total 25 B200 M5 servers hosting 5000 Mixed Users All 3 cluster have been configured with N+1 No VSI MAX reached Baseline 604 mil sec (sub second response time) Excellent End-user experience

Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution Design Navigator CVD Url: To be published soon http://www.cisco.com/go/vdi-cvd Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution Design Navigator

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Agenda Quick Overview VDI Industry Unified Compute System, HyperFlex Cisco DaaS/VDI Citrix, VMWare DaaS CVD Overview 5000 Seat FlexPod with Horizon on B200 M5 Reference Architecture Parting thoughts, Q&A Wrap-Up

Cloud Provider Success “Cisco management makes deployment incredibly easy with high levels of automation for the virtual environment. We can add additional capacity in hours or scale out hundreds of desktops in minutes.” Rick Chapman, Co-Founder and CTO, Netelligent “Cisco gives us the scalability, performance, and efficiency to deploy and expand desktop as a service rapidly for our customers, no matter where those end users are located.” Tim Burke, President and Chief Executive Officer Let’s look and what one cloud provider, Quest, has done with the Cisco DaaS Solution. They were hoping to take advantage of the DaaS opportunity and also expand their client base. Using the Cisco DaaS Solution with Desktone and FlexPod they have acquired over 200 customers and can respond quickly as they add new customers and current customers expand.