End User Computing with NetApp

End User Computing with NetApp
AFA, CI and HCI
Jeremy Hall, Solutions Architect
@VMJHALL
Chris Gebhardt, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
@chrisgeb

Agenda
1) Designing EUC for Optimal Experience
2) Flash Architectures and EUC
3) Designing EUC Solutions with Converged Infrastructure
4) Selecting, Designing, and Deploying EUC with NetApp HCI
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Leading with a Data Centric Approach
Designing EUC for Optimal
Experience

Transitioning your process from VDI to End User Computing
 Virtual desktop is just the beginning of the EUC environment
 Desktops are connected to other applications and those applications have data
 Faster virtual desktops may expose limitations of applications end users rely on
 Breadth of end user experience needs to traverse past the desktop
 Consolidate user applications and their data alongside the virtual desktops
 Uncover opportunities to deliver performance to the user applications as well
Extending into the user application and data space

Business as usual…
Hybrid SATA
SQL
Flash
VDI project gets funding!!!

Create PoC, Validate Hardware / Software
Hybrid SATA
SQL
Flash

Start a pilot!
Bring limited users into the EUC environment to test their workflows!
Hybrid SATA
SQL
Flash
– Migrate Users

Move to Production!
Hybrid SATA
SQL
Flash

Identify and move applications and data!
The applications & data are as important as the desktop!
Hybrid SATAFlash
SQL

User Data Stored on CIFS Share
PC to User Data
Hybrid SATA
SQL
Flash

User Data Stored on CIFS Share
User Data w/ SATA PC v VDI – Waiting on IO exacerbated w/ SATA
Hybrid SATA
SQL
Flash

Brute Force
 Problem: Application owners require guaranteed performance
 Solution: Application owners purchase their own infrastructure for their project
Two ways to fix a problem…
Database
Apps
Email VDI CRM
Home Grown
App
= Silos of Costly Infrastructure

Elegance
 Problem: Application owners require guaranteed performance
 Solution: Use a platform that all provides protection without silos!
Two ways to fix a problem…
Database
Apps
Email VDI CRM
Home Grown
App
Guaranteed
Performance
Flexibility
and Scale
Data Fabric
Platform

Build your VDI considering ALL applications & data
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Email
Published
Apps
User
Data
Profile
Data
Messaging
Business
Intelligence
Database
Apps
CRM
Systems
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Storage Architectures and EUC

Different Storage Architectures
= efficiency domain
Shared Nothing
Scale Out Clustering
(e.g. SolidFire)
Active / Active
(e.g. ONTAP ≥9.2)
Active / Active
(e.g. ONTAP ≤9.1)
Active / Active HA
(e.g. 7 – Mode)
N-Way
Active / Passive HA
“Some call this global”
More like islands of
inefficiency!
Dedupe across all
LUNs
Dedupe within each
volume
Dedupe within each
volume
Dedupe across
volumes per disk pool
Dedupe across
volumes per disk pool
Dedupe across all
nodes
50K IOPS 50K IOPS 100K IOPS 100K IOPS 200K IOPS 350K IOPS
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 Initial Data Placement
 Performance
 Capacity
 Competitive workloads
 Strategy for movement
 Ease of fixing initial placement
 Data Growth (Scale)
 Successful projects grow!
 Pod based approach to scale?
 Where do I place growth?
 Additional Different Workloads
 Where do I put all the other applications?
Data Matters For EUC
Hybrid SATA
SQL
Flash

The 3-Dimensional QoS Concept
Max
Min
Burst
Application
Rate Limiting
Guaranteed Min IOPs
Controlled Short-term
IOPs Burst
KEY POINT:
Complete Application control
is achieved through max, min
& burst limits

SolidFire QoS Enables Disparate Workload Consolidation
KEY POINT:
Only when full application/workload control is in place, can true consolidation occur without Noisy Neighbors.
A single controlled
workload…
…can reside next to other
controlled workloads …
…without interference, enabling consolidation.
Max
Min
Burst
Application

QoS in Practice
PERFORMANCE
TIME
APPLICATION DEMANDS
BEFORE QoS
AFTER QoS
BOOT
STORM
3
1
2
BOOT
STORM
3
1
2
BOOT
STORM
PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE
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Discrete Storage Performance for Each Application
CAPACITY PERFORMANCE
Horizon View, Composer, AppVols Servers
AppVols AppStacks CAPACITY PERFORMANCE
OS Disks CAPACITY PERFORMANCE
User Data CAPACITY PERFORMANCE
User Profile Data CAPACITY PERFORMANCE
Allocate Capacity and Performance independently with QoS
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BEST OF
BREED
APPLIANCE
HYPER CONVERGED
AS A
SERVICE
SOFTWARE
ON
COMMODITY
HARDWARE
Spectrum of NetApp Consumption Choices
Endpoints, Connections & Services for the Data Fabric platform
EASIER IMPLEMENTATION HARDER IMPLEMENTATION
MORE VENDOR LOCK-IN LESS VENDOR LOCK-IN
LESS FLEXIBLE MORE FLEXIBLE
SMALL SCALE LARGE SCALE
NetApp HCI
FlexPod
CONVERGED
The NetApp Data Fabric
The full potential of your data across
environments — on-premises, public or
hybrid cloud.
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Designing EUC Solutions with
Converged Infrastructure

FlexPod Express
Remote office or branch
office, retail, small and
midsize business, and edge
FlexPod Select
Big Data and Analytics
The FlexPod Portfolio
FlexPod Datacenter
Enterprise apps, unified
infrastructure, and
virtualization
FlexPod SF
Next-Generation Data Center
NEW
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• Built on FlexPod infrastructures
• Provides application deployment best
practices
• Includes application backup and recovery
Infrastructures Application workloads
• Baseline FlexPod® system
• Any hypervisor or bare metal
• Robust, fully redundant design
• Management software installed
• Ready-to-install application
Choose from 140+ validated designs

FlexPod for EUC

Cisco Unified Computing
System™
- Unified management
- Programmable infrastructure
Cisco Nexus® switches
- Unified Fabric
- Next-generation performance
with cloud scale
NetApp® storage
- Unified storage with NetApp ONTAP®
software
- Agile, automated next-generation data
center storage with NetApp SolidFire®
technology
Centralized management
with automation
- Cisco UCS Director and orchestration
support
- Open APIs
FlexPod is…
A prevalidated, flexible platform that features:

6 Years in The Making - FlexPod VDI History
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FlexPod VDI historical reference architectures
 FlexPod with Horizon View 7 on vSphere 6.0
 FlexPod with Horizon View non-persistent desktops on vSphere 5.5
 FlexPod with Horizon View persistent desktops on vSphere 5.5
VMware Horizon View

Converged infrastructure - FlexPod 3D Solution Example
 Best of breath technology offering
 Graphic-intensive applications require
high-performance storage and
processing
 Reduced time to productivity & value
 Simplify operations and lower costs
 Ability to deploy infrastructure more quickly
 Pod-based deployment approach of
extreme performance users
NetApp All Flash FAS
NVIDIA GRID
Hypervisor
Connection Broker
Hypervisor
Cisco Nexus®
Switches
Cisco UCS®
rack servers
Connection broker

FlexPod SF for EUC

FlexPod SF—a groundbreaking CI solution
The proven delivery of FlexPod for next-generation
data center cloud architectures
Software-defined stack with
- Scale-out storage on Cisco UCS
- Cisco UCS B-Series compute
- Leading network infrastructure
FlexPod® value
- Cooperative Support ecosystem
- Worldwide partner delivery
- Integrated management
Next-generation data center end users
- Cloud architects
- DevOps
- Line-of-business leaders
Next-generation data center
mixed workloads
- Web native apps
- Scale-out database
Next-generation data center businesses
- Service provider, telco
- Next-generation enterprise

FlexPod SF: the NetApp SF9608 storage node
Scale-out, all-flash storage purpose built for FlexPod SF
Begin with 4-node cluster
- Simplified storage pool with multitenant
resources
- iSCSI solution with 10GbE connectivity
- 300,000 IOPS
- 30TB effective storage*
Scale out in 1-node increments
- Nondisruptive scale-out and replacement
- +75,000 IOPS per node
- +10TB effective storage per node*

Selecting, Designing, and
Deploying EUC with NetApp HCI

 Business Agility
 Simple Scale features
 One throat to choke
 Building block approach
 Reduce costs
 Software Defined
Datacenter
 Ease of Deployment
 Ease of Management
 Consolidate Infrastructure
 Virtualization Focused
 Tunable
 Reduced overall
complexity
Driving factors of Hyperconvergence For EUC
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

First Generation Hyper Converged Infrastructure
What it is in theory
 IT infrastructure consisting of software-defined
compute, network storage
 Easier to manage, intuitive hypervisor-aware
storage
 Shared-Core approach for low entry point
 Rapid response to the business via fewer
integration points
 Pay-as-you-go expansion and economics
 Simple/Rapid deployment and management
 One Size Fits All architecture

Fuel Management is Everything

Introducing NetApp HCI
Enterprise-Scale Hyper Converged Infrastructure Solution
All Flash Enterprise
Class Storage
All Flash Enterprise
Class Storage
Integrated Data
Services
Centralized
Management

Enterprise-Scale Hyper Converged Infrastructure Solution
SolidFire Element OS VMware ESXi
Storage Nodes
NetApp SolidFire All Flash Storage
NetApp Deployment Engine
Third-Party Services
Backup &
Recovery
Integrated Data Services
High
Availability Replication
Data
Protection
Data
Reduction
Data Fabric Services
Backup &
Recovery
File
Services
Object
Services Replication
Data
Protection
SnapMirror SnapCenter
VMware vCenter
Compute Nodes
NetApp Architected & Designed

NetApp HCI. Enterprise-Scale.
Guaranteed Performance Automated InfrastructureFlexibility & Scale
Scale On Your
Terms
Transform & Empower
Your IT Operations
Deliver All Your Applications
with Confidence
NetApp Data Fabric
Unleash the Power of Data to Achieve a New Competitive Advantage

*Quantifying the Economic Value of a SolidFire Deployment – ESG Whitepaper, February 2015
Consolidate Mixed Workloads
Unique Quality of Service Capabilities
Dynamically Allocate, Manage and
Guarantee performance independent of capacity
Define/enforce Min, Max and Burst
settings for each application/volume

Storage
Nodes
Independently Scale Compute & Storage
Choose From Multiple Configuration Options
Small
Medium
Large
Small
Medium
Large
(6) 480GB (6) 960GB (6)1.92TBSSD’s 16 24 36
Core for
VM’s
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
Networking Networking
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
8GB 8GB 8GBNVRAM 384 512 768
GB Memory
for VM’s
RU 1RU, half-width RU 1RU, half-width
Compute
Nodes
5.5TB – 11TB 11TB – 22TB 22TB – 44TB
Effective Block
Capacity@ 5x-
10x Efficiency

Choose From Multiple Configuration Options
Small Small
SmallSmall
Small Small
SmallSmall
Small Small
SmallSmall
Large Small
Large
Small
Small
Medium
Large
Large
Small
Small
Medium Small

Optimize & Protect Existing Investments
Scale-Out Agility
Guaranteed PerformanceGuaranteed PerformanceDeliver Predictable Performance
Start Small
Grow as Needed
Two Chassis
with Enterprise-Scale
Future-proof
your investment
Eliminate migrations
& forklift upgrades
Never Wait 3 years
for an upgrade
On-Demand
Non-Disruptively

Start With One Workload … Expand As You Go
VDI Initiative
Dev/Test
Initiative
Application
Nodes
IT Projects Automation SOLIDFIRE
vCenter
Power
Shell
SPBM
Data
Fabric
Server
Virtualization
Cloud Initiative
Application
Self-Service IT
Server
Virtualization

Deploy Rapidly on Day 1
Automate More than 300 Tasks & Workflows
Initializing Configuring Building Finishing

Day 1+: Simplified Management
 Leverage VMware vCenter for day to
day operational tasks
 95% of operations from primary
management platform for virtualized
environments
Direct Hypervisor Integration

Data Fabric Integrations
Available Today
VMware vRO
Solution by GA
SF SRA 2.0
VMware SRM
Solution by GA
Veeam
Available Today
CommVault
Virtualization Integrations
Available Today
OnCommand
Insight (OCI)
Available Today
AltaVault
Available Today
StorageGRID
Solution by GA
Use Case: File Services
ONTAP Select
ONTAP 9.3
Element OS 10.1
SnapMirror
SnapCenter 4.0
SnapCenter
NetApp Data Fabric Integrations

NetApp HCI and End User Computing
 User workloads are impossible to predict
 Users behaviors, different day different behaviors
 Desktop / apps initial and changing requirements
 Assessment helps get close but doesn’t always predict
 Not server virtualization!
 Sized on multitude of factors such as user concurrency,
desktop persistence, data type (desktop, profile, application)
 Different IO profile change throughout day
 Why do customers prefer HCI?
 Small incremental scale vs POD based approach
 Granular performance controls for workload isolation
 Rapid deployment on day zero
 Simplified management beyond initial deployment
Predictable Repeatable Scale of Compute OR Storage

NetApp HCI Reference Architecture

 Tests must represent reality
 A day in the life
 Repeatable
 Tests must use tools that represent reality
 Don’t let the storage vendor push their reality on you
 20% Read / 80% Write
 16K Read / 12K Write
 Login VSI is the industry standard tool to
validate desktop performance
Testing Principals
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Reference Architecture Goals
 Understand compute node scalability for
different configuration options
 Understand storage node scalability for
different configuration options – Coming Soon!
 Provide sizing guidance
 Provide architecture guidance

 6 Rack Units
 8 – Compute Nodes
 2x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v4 – 8 Core @ 2.1 GHz
 384 GB Memory
 4x 25/10GbE SFP8 & 2 x 1GbE RJ45
 4 – Storage Nodes
 6 Drives @ 480GB
 5.5TB – 11TB Effective Capacity
Hardware Configuration
Small Small
SmallSmall
SmallSmall
Small Small
Small Small
SmallSmall

 Desktop Cluster of 7 Nodes
 Isolated one node and hosted Infrastructure VMs
 AD / DNS / DHCP
 Login VSI (VSI Share)
 20 Launcher VMs
 Horizon View Connection Server 7.2
 Horizon Composer 7.2
 MSSQL 2012
 4 Storage Nodes
Hardware Configuration
Desktops Infrastructure
StorageStorage
StorageStorage
Desktops Desktops
Desktops Desktops
DesktopsDesktops

Desktop Profile & Login VSI Workloads
 Windows 10 Patched & Optimized, Login VSI Applications, Office 2016
 2 vCPU / 4GB Memory
Workload
Name
VSI
Version
Apps
Open
CPU
Usage
Disk
Reads
Disk
Writes
IOPS Memory vCPU
Office worker 4.1 5-8 82% 90% 101% 8,1 1,5GB 1vCPU
Knowledge 4.1 5-9 100% 100% 100% 8,5 1,5GB 2vCPU
Power worker 4.1 8-12 119% 133% 123% 10,8 2GB 2vCPU+

Office Worker Testing & Results
 Perform Single Server Scalability Testing
 Perform 6 Node Scalability Testing
 6 Nodes Desktops
 1 Node Infrastructure
 1 Node Unused (Intended for HA)
 7 Nodes Desktops (6 Desktop / 1 HA)

Single Server Scalability Testing
Small Compute Node
 Login VSI baseline: 920
 Login VSI average: 1775
 Login VSI threshold: 1921
 VSImax: 86
Windows 10, Office 2016, Office Worker Workload

Full Scale Results – 6 Nodes
Small Compute Node
 VSImax: 497
 83 VMs Per Node
 Reduce Total VMs (540)

Full Scale Results – 7 Nodes (N-1)
Small Compute Node
 VSImax: N/A
 83 VMs Per Node
 Reduce Total VMs (540)

Storage
Nodes
Office Worker
Small
Medium
Large
Small
Medium
Large
(6) 480GB (6) 960GB (6)1.92TBSSD’s 16 24 36
Core for
VM’s
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
8GB 8GB 8GBNVRAM 384 512 768
GB Memory
for VM’s
Compute
Nodes
5.5TB – 11TB 11TB – 22TB 22TB – 44TB
Effective Block
Capacity@ 5x-
10x Efficiency
86 135 193Desktops*
* Estimated based on Login VSI Office Worker and Windows 10, with Office 2016

Knowledge Worker Testing & Results
 Perform Single Server Scalability Testing
 6 Nodes Desktops
 1 Node Unused (Intended for HA)
 7 Nodes Desktops (6 Desktop / 1 HA)

Single Server Scalability Testing
Small Compute Node
 VSImax: 82
Windows 10, Office 2016, Knowledge Worker Workload

Small Compute Node
 VSImax: 480

Small Compute Node
 VSImax: N/A

Storage
Nodes
Knowledge Worker
Small
Medium
Large
Small
Medium
Large
(6) 480GB (6) 960GB (6)1.92TBSSD’s 16 24 36
Core for
VM’s
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
2x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
4x 25/10GbE
SFP28
2 x 1GbE RJ45
8GB 8GB 8GBNVRAM 384 512 768
GB Memory
for VM’s
Compute
Nodes
5.5TB – 11TB 11TB – 22TB 22TB – 44TB
Effective Block
Capacity@ 5x-
10x Efficiency
82 129 185Desktops*
* Estimated based on Login VSI Knowledge Worker and Windows 10, with Office 2016

The NetApp Data Fabric
The full potential of your data across environments — on-premises, public or hybrid cloud.
APPLIANCECONVERGEDAS A SERVICE
SOFTWARE
DEFINED
Cloud Hosting
Partners
FlexPod SF
NetApp HCI
SolidFire Element X
ELEMENT OS
ONTAP Cloud FlexPod AFF | FAS ONTAP Select
ONTAP
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Q&A

Reference Documents
 Storage Built for the Next Generation Data Center
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/ds-3773-solidfire.pdf
 NetApp HCI
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/ds-3881.pdf
 NetApp ONTAP Select vNAS Solution
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/ds-vnas-solution-brief.pdf
 NetApp All Flash FAS
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/ds-3582.pdf
 TR-4539: “NetApp All Flash FAS Solution for Nonpersistent Desktops with VMware Horizon View”
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4539.pdf
 TR-4540: “NetApp All Flash FAS Solution for Persistent Desktops with VMware Horizon View”
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4540.pdf
 FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp All Flash FAS and VMware Horizon - NVA Design
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/nva-1110-fp-design.pdf
 FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp All Flash FAS, vRealize, and VMware Horizon - NVA Deployment
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/nva-1110-fp-deploy-v2.pdf

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