syn 104: citrix and nutanix

Desktop and Application Virtualization

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Today’s Speaker

Name : Kees Baggerman

Role : Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

: http://blog.myvirtualvision.com

: @KBaggerman

http://blog.myvirtualvision.com/

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Today’s Speaker

Name : Jarian Gibson

Role : Independent Consultant

: http://www.jariangibson.com

: @jariangibson

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Agenda

Company

Conclusion/Demo Citrix and Nutanix

Problem Solution Core Technology

Citrix and Acropolis Q&A

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Agenda

Company




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About Nutanix

2600+ customers

Over 70 countries

6 continents

Founded in 2009

1500+ employees

Deliver Enterprise clouds to

Make datacenter infrastructure invisible,

Elevate IT to focus on applications and services

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Agenda

Company




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Legacy Infrastructure Is Complex

Inherent

Complexity

Inefficient Silos

Forklift Scaling

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Datacenter Management Is Painful

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Shelfware Lock-In Operational Complexity

Expensive ELAs

Virtualization Tax Is Increasing

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Agenda

Company




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What Nutanix Does

Converged

compute, storage

and virtualization

Servers

Storage

Network

SAN

Virtualization

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Integrated Datacenter Management

Prism

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Predictable Economics and Growth

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Number of Virtual Desktops

Relative Application Performance

Consistent response time while incrementally scaling blocks

Linear Scalability: From 100s to 1000s of Desktops

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Bringing the Tesla-effect into your datacenter

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Faster Shipping and Deployment

Nutanix delivered in days,

not months

Complete infrastructure, ready for application provisioning, in minutes

30x Faster Time to

Value

Acropolis Hypervisor

Legacy

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Footprint Reduction

Up to

Less Power and Space

Legacy

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VCE vBlock (VMWare, Cisco & EMC) vs Nutanix 2500 users , 100% VDI

Source: Vblock Specialized System for Extreme Applications with

Citrix XenDesktop 7.1, page 28

Released: april 2014

vBlock Nutanix Difference

Power (Watt) 19510 7987 11523

Heat (BTU) 51223 31432 19791

Rackspace (RU) 35 20 15

Cost to run (€/yr) 39308 16092 23126

Cost to cool (€/yr) 30238 18550 11688

Total cost (€/yr) 69547 34642 34905

Per user (€/yr) 27,81 13,85 13,96

% costs saved 50%

Source: Citrix Validated Solution for Nutanix

June 2014, extrapolated node configurations

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Flexpod (Cisco + NetApp) vs Nutanix 2000 users, 75% HSD + 25% HVD

Source: Flexpod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 and

Vmware vSphere 5.1, page 16

Released: March 5, 2014

Flexpod Nutanix Difference

Power (Watt) 13170 4406 8764

Heat (BTU) 35284 17118 18166


Cost to run (€/yr) 26534 8877 17657

Cost to cool (€/yr) 20829 10105 10724

Total cost (€/yr) 47363 18982 28381

Per user (€/yr) 23,68 9,49 11,08

% Costs saved 60%



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Cisco + EMC VSPEX vs Nutanix 1000 users , 70% HSD 30% VDI

Source: Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with

Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 for 1000 seats, page 19

Released: July 2014

Cisco Nutanix Difference

Power (Watt) 10063 2481 7582

Heat (BTU) 28136 10555 17581


Cost to run (€/yr) 20274 4998 15276

Cost to cool (€/yr) 16609 6231 10378

Total cost (€/yr) 36884 11230 25654

Per user (€/yr) 36,88 11,23 25,65

% costs saved 70%



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Agenda

Company




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Distributed Storage Fabric

App Mobility Fabric

Acropolis Prism


Nutanix Products

Infrastructure

Management

Operational

Insights

Planning

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Legacy Virtualization in a SAN World

LUN-centric Storage

Hypervisor Bloat

Lock-in

Lower Mobility

Shelfware

Hypervisor has taken on data services that

belong in storage

VM-centric Data Services

Hypervisor

Storage

Virtualized Computing

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Legacy

VM-centric Storage

Simpler Stack


VM-centric Data Services


Hypervisor

Storage

Nutanix

LUN-centric Storage

Converged Stack for Virtualization and Storage

Our platform

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Nutanix nodes explained

What’s In • Software-based

• Smart software, commodity HW

• Scale one x86 server at a time

• Highly distributed, but local storage

• Heavily automated

Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform - The hardware side

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The only thing we customized…

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What model?

“Our System was up and running in 30 minutes!” –Ken Farley, Gunner IT

Download Customer Success Story

4 nodes / 2U

Balanced

resources for

branch office,

retail stores, &

remote offices

Power and space

savings up to 80%

NX-1000

4 nodes / 2U

Fast performance

for compute-

intensive

workloads (e.g.

VDI)

Highest supported

VM density

NX-3000

2 nodes / 2U

Ideal for data-

intense apps

Full range of CPU

offerings to

accommodate

multiple apps

NX-6000

1 node / 2U

Tailored for high

perf VDI and Tier-

1 apps

4x more SSD

accommodates a

much larger active

data set

Flexible configs

including CPU,

SSD, Memory &

10GbE

NX-8000

1 node / 2U

GPU offload

integrates

graphics intensive

users

Ideal for any user

currently running

workstations with

GPU cards

installed

NX-7000

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What model for desktop virtualisation?

“Our System was up and running in 30 minutes!” –Ken Farley, Gunner IT

4 nodes / 2U

Fast performance

for compute-

intensive

workloads (e.g.

VDI)

Highest supported

VM density

NX-3000

1 node / 2U

GPU offload

integrates

graphics intensive

users

Ideal for any user

currently running

workstations with

GPU cards

installed

NX-7000 NX-3175

1 node / 1U

GPU optional

Great combination

of high VM density

and GPU

enhanced

desktops

NX-3155

1 node / 2U

GPU offload

integrates

graphics intensive

users

Ideal for any user

currently running

workstations with

GPU cards

installed

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Agenda

Company




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How Nutanix helps boosting your desktop virt project?

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Desktop Catalog mode choices

MCS

Pooled

PVS

Pooled with PVD Dedicated

Non Persistent: Writes discarded on restart

(Semi)- Persistent Writes sustained on restart

Catalog disk modes

Random

Static

Pre-Assigned

First Use

Streamed Streamed

with PVD

Virtual

Physical

Virtual only

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PXE BDM

PVS high level vDisk architecture

PVS Server(s) PXE BDM PXE BDM

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Standard Mode: 1:many (write cache enabled)

Private mode: 1:1 (write cache disabled)

PVS disk modes

Device collection (based on MAC) .vhd

1. Write cache on disk 2. Write cache in RAM 3. Write cache on PVS server

4. Write cache in RAM, with overflow to disk

Write

cache Write

cache Write

cache

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PXE BDM

Citrix PVS – On Nutanix?


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PVS disk modes




Write

cache Write

cache Write

cache

Write Cache Placement

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PXE BDM

Citrix PVS – On Nutanix?


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PVS disk modes




Write

cache Write

cache Write

cache

Distribution of vDisks

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MCS high level vdisk architecture

Virtual Machine

Diff disk

Root vDisk

Datastore

Virtual Machine Virtual Machine

ID disk

Diff disk

ID disk

Diff disk ID disk

Master VM

snapshots

flattened copy…

…to every

configured

datastore

Persistent

identity

16MB Space

reclaimed at

every reboot

One copy of the vdisk

shared by all VM’s

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Citrix MCS – On Nutanix

Before After

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Citrix MCS – On Nutanix?

Read IO

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Citrix MCS - On Nutanix

Master vDisk

Distributed datastore

Distributed storage

Clone…

Hypervisor node local storage

Diff ID

Diff ID

Snapshot

Shadow Clone


Diff ID

Diff ID

Shadow Clone


Diff ID

Diff ID

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Shadow Clones

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Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor is Citrix Ready

• Consistent and Predictable performance

• Turnkey setup and monitoring

• Consumer grade management

• Simplified OpEx

• Time to value

• End-to-end ownership

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Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp on Acropolis Hypervisor


Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor

is now certified Citrix Ready for

Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp and Citrix Workspace

Cloud

Citrix NetScaler VPX

Citrix ShareFile

Citrix Lifecycle Management

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A Layered Approach to App and Desktop Delivery

Network

Compute and Storage (HW)

Hypervisor

Control and Access Layer

Desktop Layer

User Layer

Ch

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XenDesktop

& XenApp


Hyper-V ESXi

NetScaler VPX 10GbE

Switches +

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How Nutanix AHV boosts XenDesktop

No infrastructure restraints Data locality AHV concept of clones Single Datastore

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Integration points

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Integration points

Power management plugin - provides the ability to cleanly

power up and power down VMs from the hypervisor.

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Integration points

Machine Creation Services - provides the ability to

provision desktops inside of the Citrix environment.

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Integration points

Citrix Validated Solution - An architecture document that

validates our design and performance.

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Agenda

Company




Thank You Q&A

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Useful links

Solution Note for XD on AHV:

http://go.nutanix.com/citrix-xenapp-and-xendesktop-on-acropolis.html

Reference Architectures http://nutanix.com/resources/reference-architecture/

Automating Citrix PVS on Nutanix AHV:

http://blog.myvirtualvision.com/2015/11/25/automating-citrix-pvs-nutanix-ahv-posh/













http://nutanix.com/resources/reference-architecture/















