1. SAT #003 Atlanta GA October 27, 2012

2. Scripting Datacenter Orchestration Glenn Sizemore @glnsize Blogs.NetApp.com/MSEnviro Scripting Datacenter Orchestration Cloud Orchestration SCALE SAT #003 Atlanta GA October 27, 2012

3. FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud Validated with Citrix XenDesktop Citrix XenDesktop is the first validated workload on FlexPod™ with Microsoft ® Private Cloud First Fast Track 2.0 Validated Design – Fully integrated with Microsoft System Center 2012 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 – Validated to run 2,000 virtual desktops – The most scalable VDI solution on the market – Save 50% of storage capacity, guaranteed! Accelerates VDI deployments at reduced risk – Provision and manage large VDI environments quickly and efficiently. – Provision 2,000 VMs 25 times faster than with traditional SAN – All HW components are shipping now – Reference implementation is available now

6. How far can we take this? (30 Seconds per VM) * 2000 VMs = 16Hrs 16 Hrs / 16 Hosts = 1 HR! Deploy 2000 Desktops in 1 HR!!!

7. Ideas are Cheap… Execution Matters!

8. Execution Refactor Fill in the Gaps Put it all together. Scale out Fail Try again!

9. How’d we do?

10. Lessons Learned Plan for failure and Deal with it Session Management Logging