This document summarizes a Cisco presentation on optimizing infrastructure for scaling VMware View desktop virtualization. The key points covered include:
- Cisco's Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) solution which provides validated designs using Cisco UCS servers, networking, and security to deliver a high performance virtual desktop experience.
- How Cisco UCS provides benefits like simplified management, flexibility and scalability, workload mobility and active-active uplinks for desktop virtualization.
- Examples showing how Cisco UCS can support over 100 knowledge worker virtual desktops on a single server with linear scalability to thousands of desktops.
2. Rising Desktop Management
Costs
Windows 7
and PC Refresh
Users Want Access Anywhere,
Anytime
Success of Server
Virtualization
Data Security
and Compliance
Explosion of
New Devices
2
3. Flexibility / Business Continuity Total Cost of OwnershipData
Security
Desktop Virtualization Drivers
Fragmented Solution SetMaintaining High Quality
for Video, Voice
Experience
Desktop Virtualization Challenges
Return on Investment
13. Virtual Security Gateway
Intelligent Virtual Desktop Traffic Steering with vPath
Nexus 1000V
Distributed Virtual Switch
VM VM VM
VM VM
VM
VM VM VM
VM
VM
VM VM VM
VM VM VMVM
VM
vPath
VNMC
Log/Audit
Initial Packet
Flow
VSG
1
Flow Access Control
(policy evaluation)
2
Decision
Caching 3
4
Access Log
(syslog)
19. Featured Sessions:
Monday
• #SPO3989 – Cisco VXI: Optimized Infrastructure for Scaling VMware View Desktops with
Confidence, 11:30am
• #EUC1656 – Modernize the Desktop for Better Patient Care, 1:00pm
Tuesday
• #SUP1010 – Innovating Together: How Cisco and VMware Collaborate to Build the Cloud,
Soni Jiandiani, SVP, Cisco SAVBU, 2:30pm
• #SPO3988 – Oaks Hills and NetApp Do the Math: Implementing a Practical VDI Solution
Designed to Scale Beyond 50,000 Seats, 10:30am
• #SUP1016 – Transforming the Data Center with Vblock Infrastructure Platforms, 4:00pm
• #EUC2904 – Optimizing the Network for VMware View, 4:30pm (and Wed. 2:30pm)
Wednesday
• #SPO2526 – View in the Real World: Husky Energy and the Lessons We Learned from a
6,000 Seat Multi-Site Deployment, 8:30am
• #SPO3952 – Deploy Virtualized Desktops 4 Times Faster on Vblock Infrastructure Platforms,
10:00am
Thursday
• #EUC2436 – Redefining the Desktop: A New Vision for Workplace Productivity at CB Richard
Ellis, 11:00am
Demos
• Cisco: VXI with VMware
View (Booth #700)
• NetApp: Deploying VMware
View on NetApp (Booth
#401)
• EMC: Solutions for VMware
View (Booth #1101)
• VCE: VMware View on
Vblock (Booth #1121)
• Teradici: Cisco VXC Client:
3D, Aero, Google Earth
(Booth #1013)
• Atlantis: ILIO
Demonstration on Cisco
UCS Servers (Booth #1161)