This document discusses Cisco's desktop virtualization solution. It begins with an overview of the desktop virtualization market trends, including rising management costs and the need for access from any device anywhere. It then covers desktop virtualization models and user types. The rest of the document discusses Cisco's vision for desktop virtualization, the challenges it addresses, and how Cisco UCS provides advantages for desktop virtualization deployments, including an end-to-end virtualized solution.

1. Cisco Desktop Virtualization
Solution
Robert Feng
TSA
robfeng@cisco.com
Sept, 2012
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2. •Desktop Virtualization Market Trend and Business Driver
•What is Desktop Virtualization?
- Desktop Virtualization Models
- Desktop Virtualization Users Classification
- Desktop Virtualization Architecture – VMware View
•Cisco VXI Vision
•Desktop Virtualization Challenges
•Cisco UCS Desktop Virtualization Advantage
•Conclusion
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3. Data Security Explosion of
and Compliance New Devices
Rising Desktop Users Want Access
Management Costs Anywhere, Anytime
Success of Server Windows 7, 8
Virtualization and PC Refresh
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4. Gartner HVD Already HVDs % of
Forecast deployed some Enterprise
HVDs Desktops
50
40 Deployed 37% 6%
Current
30
Plan to Deploy 45% 16%
20
In 12 Months
10
No Plan 18% 30%
0 In 24 Months
2010 2011 2012 2013
Source: Gartner HVD Forecast 2010- Source: Morgan Stanley, ―Hard Data on Virtual Desktop ROI & Adoption, May 2011
2014, Dec. 2010
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5. Broker
Keyboard, Video, Mouse Thin • Large OS
Client • Many local
Compute
applications
Storage
• Vulnerable
Network • Constant patching
• Data backup
• Complex management
• Software distribution
delivery challenges
• Skilled local support
staff required
• Personal Computer is disaggregated
• Keyboard, Video, and Mouse stay with user
• Compute and storage move to the data center
• Network availability is required for all application access
• Network performance is critical to user experience
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6. Remote Workers Professionals Design
Call Centers Researchers Professionals
Administrative & Mobile Workers
Clerical
Schools
Task Worker Knowledge Worker Power User
Office Applications Custom Programs
“Administrator Intended Applications” Install Requirements
Candidates for Thin
Rich Clients Needed – Dynamic Virtual Clients
and Rich Clients
Devices End Users Need
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8. Virtualization-Aware Virtualized
Virtualized Data Center Borderless Network Collaborative Workspace
Applications/Desktop OS Cisco Virtualization
Cisco® Experience Clients
Identity
AnyConnect
Services
Desktop Virtualization Software Engine Cisco VXC 6215
Thin Client
Hypervisor CDN
Cisco VXC 4000 PC
Client
WAAS Quad AnyConnect WAAS
Cisco VXC
UCS 22xx & 21xx
Nexus ASA
Zero Client
1000v PoE Routing
Virtual Unified ACE
Security Cius
Gateway CM
Business
Compute Tablet
Switching
Storage
End-to-End Management and Optimization
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9. Virtualization-Aware Virtualized
Virtualized Data Center Borderless Network Collaborative Workspace
Applications/Desktop OS
Desktop Virtualization Software
Hypervisor
UCS
Compute
Storage
End-to-End Management and Optimization
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10. • Desktop Virtualization Density and Scalability
ROI calculation
• Simple and efficient Desktop Management
Rapid provisioning of new virtual desktop infrastructure
• Desktop Virtualization Security
User desktops now sit amidst other applications and assets in the Data Center
Enterprise assets could present larger ―attack surface‖ for compromised user
desktops
• Delivery of various Virtual Desktop Pools needs to be
prioritized
Co-resident workloads can compete for resources, impacting user experience
• Virtual Desktop performance especially for application
virtualization
Need consistent and predictable performance as user population grows
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11. • A single system that unifies
–Compute: Industry standard x86
–Network: Unified fabric/Wire once
–Storage Access: Unified fabric/ Wire once
• Embedded management
–Increase scalability
–Dynamic resource provisioning
–Ability to integrate with broad partner
ecosystem
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12. Desktop Density and Scalability
Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Rapid Provisioning of Desktops
Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops
Nexus 1000V with VSG providing VM level controls
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads
UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Application Performance Optimizations
VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Partners and Validated Design
Desktop virtualization partners and validated performance optimizations
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13. Desktop Density and Scalability
Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Rapid Provisioning of Desktops
Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops
Nexus 1000V with VSG providing VM level controls
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads
UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Application Performance Optimizations
VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Partners and Validated Design
Desktop virtualization partners and validated performance optimizations
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14. • 175 Desktops on B230 M2
Knowledge Worker Profile (no
Flash)
384 G memory, Dual E7-2870 /
10 Core CPU
EMC VNX 5500 Storage Industry-leading
Density on
• 186 Desktops on B200 M3 2-socket servers
• Knowledge Worker Profile
• 384 G memory, Dual E5-2690 / 8
Core CPU
• EMC VNX 5500 Storage
Source: Principled Technologies White Paper
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15. Cisco UCS
• Lower cost for compute + network
infrastructure
• Greater virtual desktop density without
performance impact
Memory
• Simple Operation—start in minutes, scale in
seconds
• Massive Scalability—scales easily to 1000’s
CPU of desktops per UCS system
Unified Fabric
• Extended memory and I/O to avoid desktop
(FCoE) virtualization bottlenecks
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16. Mgmt LAN SAN A
SAN B
Infrastructure
Management Domain
(~20K desktops)
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17. Desktop Density and Scalability
Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Rapid Provisioning of Desktops
Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops
Nexus 1000V with VSG providing VM level controls
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads
UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Application Performance Optimizations
VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Partners and Validated Design
Desktop virtualization partners and validated performance optimizations
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18. Reduced Points of Management
Tightly Coupled
Partner Mgmt. Tools
• Unified Management Domain
XML API Automatic discovery
Dynamic Provisioning
• Building Blocks of Resources for rapid
provisioning
• Simplify infrastructure management for
datacenters
Service Profile: HR-App1
Network: HR-VLAN
Single-click
Network QoS: High configuration of
MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC LAN, SAN and
WWN: 20:65:32:25:B5:00:A4:28 firmware
BIOS: Version 1.03
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
parameters
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19. Desktop Density and Scalability
Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Rapid Provisioning of Desktops
Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops
Nexus 1000V with VSG providing VM level controls
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads
UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Application Performance Optimizations
VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Partners and Validated Design
Desktop virtualization partners and validated performance optimizations
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20. • Client LAN Features
Port Security prevents CAM attacks, DHCP
Starvation attacks
DHCP Snooping prevents Rogue DHCP Server
attacks
Dynamic ARP Inspection prevents current ARP
attacks
IP Source Guard prevents IP/MAC Spoofing and a
wide variety of TCP/UDP splicing and DoS attacks
• Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM)
Networking capabilities at the hypervisor level
L2 switching, CDP, Netflow, ACLs, QoS, SNMP, SPAN, etc
Local Switching
Port Profile to simplify Network Policy
• Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM)
Mgmt, monitoring and config of VEM instances
Sees each VEM as a virtual chassis module
Configuration done through port-profiles
Tight integration with Virtual Center
Runs on dedicated appliance or virtual machine
• Virtual Chassis Concept
Redundant Supervisors (VSMs)
Currently up to 128 VEM instances (128 ESX hosts)
Presents a network view of the virtual access layer
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21. Desktop Density and Scalability
Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Rapid Provisioning of Desktops
Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops
Nexus 1000V with VSG and VM-FEX providing VM level controls
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads
UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Application Performance Optimizations
VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Partners and Validated Design
Desktop virtualization partners and validated performance optimizations
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23. Desktop Density and Scalability
Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Rapid Provisioning of Desktops
Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops
Nexus 1000V with VSG and VM-FEX providing VM level controls
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads
UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Application Performance Optimizations
VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Partners and Validated Design
Desktop virtualization partners and validated performance optimizations
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24. • Options:
Application Virtualization - Citrix XenApp, VMware ThinApp, Microsoft App-V
Hosted Shared Desktops – Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
• UCS Application Virtualization Optimizations with VM-FEX
Deterministic latency behavior for applications
Reduction in latency
Improved performance (reduction in hypervisor code path)
• Application Traffic Monitoring and Diagnostic capability
App level networking visibility
Statistics, events and faults on per app basis to fine tune performance
VLAN based SPAN on application basis to diagnose advanced issues
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25. VNIC VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
VETH
Hypervisor Hypervisor
VM-FEX Basics

UCS VIC
UCS VIC
Fabric Extender for VMs
 Hypervisor vSwitch removed
 Each VM assigned a PCIe
device
 Each VM gets a virtual port on UCS Server UCS Server
physical switch
VM-FEX: One Network
 Collapses virtual and physical switching layers
 Dramatically reduces network management points
by eliminating per host vSwitch
 Virtual and Physical traffic treated the same
Host CPU Cycles Relief UCS 6100
 Host CPU cycles relieved from VM switching
 I/O Throughput improvements
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26. Performance Low Latency Deterministic Delivery
Near linear deterministic
Up to 50% increase in Up to 67% reduction in
Application delivery with
Application performance Application latency
scale
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27. Desktop Density and Scalability
Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability
Rapid Provisioning of Desktops
Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools
Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops
Nexus 1000V with VSG providing VM level controls
Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads
UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools
Application Performance Optimizations
VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance
Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem Partners and Validated Design
Desktop virtualization partners and validated performance optimizations
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29. Integrated Roadmap /
Support Solutions
Performance Time to
/ SLA Market
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30. • Storage - one of the most critical aspect of implementing VDI
• Capacity
Linked vs Full Clones vs Provisioned
Personalized desktops
User capacity
• IOPS
Boot storms, login storms, AV updates/scans
IntelliCache, VMware’s CBRC, Write Cache
• Protocol/Connectivity
NFS/block (for XS, ESX), CIFS/block (for Hyper-V)
• Storage/DC Services
DR/HA, Application Mobility, backup
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31. Validated
Designs
www.cisco.com/go/vdi
www.cisco.com/go/designzone
VBLOCK FLEXPOD Standard
Configurations
Infrastructure

32. • CVDs
Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 on FlexPod based on Microsoft Private Cloud
B230 M2 blades, UCS 2.0 software, FC SAN connectivity
Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1
Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_xd56_fle
xpod.html
Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 with EMC VNX 5500 on vSphere 5 (2000-seat)
Initial launch with EMC VSPEX program
(Other reference architectures for 500-seat, 1000-seat VDI environments)
• Whitepapers
NexentaStor on Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Mount Servers: Storage Platform for
Desktop Virtualization
PT: Cisco UCS B230 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
PT: Virtual desktop management with Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere
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33. Data Center Content:
• SAVTG VDI Solutions Page (link)
• VXI Data Center IWE (link)
• www.cisco.com/go/vdi
• www.cisco.com/go/vdidesigns
• ResComp Sizing Tool
• Principled Technologies Reports
VMware Performance (link)
Citrix Scale/Perf. (link)
Citrix TCO (link)
HP Competitive (link)
VMware B200 M3
VMware Manageability/QoS
Citrix B200 M3
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36. • Cisco understands Desktop Virtualization and its challenges
• Cisco UCS is the ideal platform for Desktop Virtualization (key
strengths/advantage described earlier)
• Cisco has a complete end-to-end vision on Desktop
Virtualization
• Cisco, together with strong ecosystem partners, can
successfully deliver optimized desktop virtualization
solutions
• Cisco’s validated virtual desktop design collaterals are
available
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38. Start Connect
1 Connect to
Connection
2 Query for 3 Identify 4 target 5
Return
6
Successful
7 connection
user target VM VM to VM to
Broker policy VM endpoint endpoint
Thin Client
Active Directory
Smartphone/iPad Connection Broker
Virtual Infrastructure
Virtual
Infrastructure
Authentication Management
Thick Client
Display Protocol
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39. Stream to Physical Desktop Hosted Virtual Desktop
Apps
O/S Desktop
Synchronized Apps Apps Apps Apps
App Guest App Apps OS
Desktop
AppsOS OS OS OS
App Guest OS OS
OS Hypervisor
Main OS
Display Data
Server
Application Streaming Shared Hosted Desktops
App
Application
OS
App App
OS Display Data
OS
Server
OS
Terminal Server
Client Hosted Computing Server Hosted Computing
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40. • Non-Persistent or Pooled
Generic virtual desktop assigned to users on a per session first come first server
basis and then returned to the pool (possibly with profile removed) or destroyed
• Personalized
Thin Provisioned Desktops with Persistence/Personalization
• Persistent or Assigned
Permanently assigned to a user statically or by first to connect
Users and Desktops Pool of Virtual
Groups Entitle Group Assign Machines
to Desktop Pool
Personalized
Pooled
Desktop
Entitle User to
Desktop
Assign
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41. • One bad application can kill Virtual Desktop deployment
• Anti-Virus Storms can seriously impact performance
• Anti-Virus Offloading
• McAfee MOVE (Management Optimized for Virtualized
Environment)
• TrendMicro Deep Security Agentless Anti-Virus
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42. • MOVE-AV (McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual
Environments) is validated
• MOVE-AV on a UCS B250 M2 with XenDesktop 5 and ESXi
4.1 with Windows 7/32 bit desktops and NetApp for storage
are provided below.
• The impact of adding MOVE-AV with a default scan policy
to a Knowledge Worker workload running on a UCS B250
M2 is a ~10-15% impact to VM density.
Source:
http://www.2mul.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/VXI/CVD/VXI_C
VD_Citrix.pdf
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