Virtualise with
Confidence
From Desktop to Disk -
Part One
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Virtualise with
Confidence
• Efficient Infrastructure by Sun and AMD
• Virtualize with Confidence -
from desktop to disk
• Scalable infrastructure for
business applications
Agenda
• Next Steps
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Why Clouds are so appealing
Less More
cost agility
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Behind the clouds
User Admin
 Wants to connect to his • Wants
data and applications > Standardised processes
 Securely > Cost and energy efficient
 Quickly > Decouple services from
 Anytime
physical server and
storage ressources
 Anywhere
 On any device
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The User's view
onto the cloud
I want this!
Fast, secure and efficient
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Your personal work environment
Anytime, anywhere, on any device
Choose your channel
Ultra Thin Client
PC Mac
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The “Office Channel” architecture
Data Center “Cloud” User
Sun VDI
VMware ESX
Software
Storage Sun Fire Server VirtualCenter Sun Fire Server
Server
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Component Number One:
Servers for Desktop Virtualization
Enough Power and
Memory for more
than 160 Windows XP
virtual machines
Sun Fire X4640 Nobody scales better!
- 48 AMD Opteron Cores
- 512 Gigabyte Memory
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Component Number Two
The most efficient Windows Desktop
+
4 Watts Power Consumption 1200 Watts Power Consumption
20 Years Duty Cycle 160 concurrent Windows Users
Remote Display Protocol
12 Watts per User!
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Sun Storage 7000
New Dimensions of Efficiencies for VMware
Sun Storage 7000
BEST Storage
For
Windows Server
Consolidation
SUPPORT
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ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool for VMware
Unleash the speed of Solid State Disks
Windows Applications • Hybrid storage pool offers best of
breed capacity & performance
ESX Server
• VM cache Performance boosted
NFS
by SSD/Flash technology by
ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool reducing latency ~ up to 300% in
lab tests
ZIL L2ARC Pool
• Adaptive replacement cache
algorithms accelerates disk writes
SSDs SSDs HDDs for VM
• High capacity disk keeps $/GB
VMDKs VMDKs VMDKs
down
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„Virtual is better than Physical“ ...
Breakthrough Performance with VMware vSphere (I)
SPECWeb2005
+ Apache Web Server
SPECweb2005 aggregate metric
5000
4500 + PHP
+ VMware vSphere 4
4000
3500
3000 = 2000 points more than physical
2500
2000
1500
=> ESX can scale better than
native in multi-VM configuration
1000
500
0 => Single instance of
1 2 3 4 5 6 SPECweb2005/Apache/PHP
Number of virtual machines or CPUs does not scale well on native
Virtual scaling Native scaling => Virtualizing Apache solves real-
world scalability issues
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... now also on Performance!
Breakthrough Performance with VMware vSphere (II)
CPU Overcomittment:
Show more than available:
 vSphere shows 16 vCPU’s and supports 8000 “heavy” mailbox users
 Physical server shows 8 CPUs
and supports just 4000 users. 9 300
 With 6 VM’s / 6000 users 8
95th percentile sendmail 250
95 percentile latency (ms)
7
latency unchanged
 With 8 VMs / 8000 users 6 Users (thousands) 200
CPU utilization on host below 60%. 5
Sendmail latencies are well 4
150
under 500ms threshold
3 100
=> Double your Mailboxes
with vSphere 2
50
Users (thousands) 1
95 percentile latency 0 0
1 VM 2 VMs 4 VMs 6 VMs 8 VMs
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For better TCO and smoother operations:
Optimized performance with SUN, AMD and VMware:
 Hardware assist for CPU (AMD-V) 18% improvement compared to BT
 Hardware assist for MMU (RVI) another 4% compared to AMD-V
 RVI is default monitor chosen by vSphere 4 for our environment
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Binary Translation (BT) Hardware-Assisted CPU Hardware-Assisted Memory &
Virtualization CPU Virtualization
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Scaling towards VDI with VMware View
Production Proven and Robust
Easy to Deploy and Manage
Flexible Provisioning
Full-fidelity End-user Experience
VMware
Infrastructure 3
View
Manager
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Thin, thinner, Sun Ray!
Sun Ray Thin Clients
Full Desktop
 More Security
No local data, No storage media
 More Performance
Sun ALP protocol for LAN and WAN
 More choices
Built in VPN, Smart Card
 Fully compatible to VMware View Traditional Thin Client
Sun Ray Station
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Focus on Users – not on IT
VMware View for Best User Experience ...
 Client Hypervisor Platform1
 Offline Desktop2
 Mobile Hypervisor1
 PC over IP protocol1
 Application Virtualization
 Backup, VMotion, DRS, HA
... the secret success for VDI
hello freedom 1available
in future release
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Sun and VMware
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Questions
and Answers
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