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Design an environment that overcomes the four obstacles to

VDI love:✓ Performance

✓ Personalization

✓ Operational Efficiency

✓ Cost Effectivness

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About George Crump

● Founder of Storage Switzerland, and its lead analyst

● Areas of expertise include performance optimization and data protection.

● Recognized for his talks, white papers and chalktalk videos on such current technology as all-flash arrays, SSDs and software-defined storage

● He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Storage Swiss Background

About Seth Knox

● VP of Products, Atlantis Computing

● Areas of expertise include storage performance benchmarking and VDI cost analysis

● Author of VDI architectures, wrote chapter of “The New VDI Reality” book and frequent speaker at industry events VMworld 2014, PEX and IBM Edge

● He has 14 years of experience in the security, virtualization an storage industries

Atlantis Background

600,000+ virtual machines globally

650 mission-critical deployments

25+ petabytes of storage in use

The massive amount of storage we have setfree & reclaimed for our customers to date

About Rawley Burbridge

● Storage Solution Architect for the IBM FlashSystem organization

● Expert in desktop and server virtualization, and architecting storage solutions

● Author of IBM white paper and best practice guides and regular speaker at industry events

● Over 10 years experience in designing and managing complex virtualization environments

© 2014 IBM Corporation7

IBM Ranked #1

*Calculations by IBM based on Gartner Report: Market Share Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays, Worldwide, 2013

278% growth from 201282 PB total flash shipped in 2013*

Global market acceptance#1 with 25% market share

Clear leadership position44% greater revenue than next closest competitor*

for Flash Storage(SSA) Market Share, Worldwide based on revenue for 2013

Polling Question

Where are you on your VDI Journey?

❏ Investigating❏ Started but stuggling with adoption❏ In progress but having performance problems❏ Project abandoned, looking to reboot❏ Deployed and trying to scale

Polling Question

Where are you on your VDI Journey?

Why VDI?The Big Promise

● Reduce Costs

● Improve Operational Efficiency

● Increase Organizational Security

● Improve End-Point Data Protection

The Big ChallengeUser Adoption

● Users tend to hate their virtual desktops

● Can’t customize

● Virtual instance is too slow or inconsistent

The Bigger ChallengeAchieving User Adoption

• Persistence • Persistent desktops provide

user customization

• Performance• Flash storage can increase

user performance

The Bigger ChallengeRequirements for User Adoption

• Persistence • Persistent desktops provide

customization

• Performance• Flash storage increases user

performance

But these impact price per desktop….

The Bigger ChallengeUser Adoption = Increased Price

• Persistence • Increases capacity consumption

• Space Efficiency• Addresses capacity challenges but

increases write I/O

• Price per Desktop is Critical • The perfect VDI project delivers

MacBook Air performance at Chromebook pricing

The Biggest ChallengeThe Three Ps Have to be Addressed All at Once

Persistence

Price

Performance

The Holestic Approach To VDIMore than Just Flash

• More than Flash Alone • Space efficiency IOPS that could be

better spent on more desktops

• Underlying Software Has to Improve

• Space efficiency techniques utilized, local and remote memory storage needs to improve

• Not Just Any Flash • With better software full potential of

flash can be tapped

IBM & Atlantis VDI Solution

Hypervisor

IBM FlashSystem

5,000 persistent VDI users on 2U of storage

334 Average IOPS/desktop bursting to thousands

$200 total cost per desktop (servers and storage)

5,000 Persistent VDI Configuration

VMware ESXi 5.5

Virtual Desktops VMware Horizon 6 VDI Broker 5,000 Persistent Full Clone Desktops

– 30GB with 21GB in use LoginVSI Medium

– LoginVSI Max Not Reached– Baseline of 1019ms

NetworkingIBM G8264 64 port 10GbE TORIBM SAN48B-5 FC switch

StorageIBM FlashSystem 840 (20TB)

ServersAverage Density of 143 per server 3 x IBM Flex Chassis with

– 5 x222 twin node – 4 x240 node – 26 x240 node – 2 x240 node (management)

Courtesy IBM Corporation – VDI Test Laboratory

5,000 Persistent VDI Benchmark

Scales to 5,000 userWithout degrading performance

User Experience (ms)

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Good

Excellent

MacBook Air Performance - PassMark

6X Disk Performanceof a MacBook Air

IBM FlashSystem 840 Data Center Optimized

• 1.1M IOPS• 8 GB/s bandwidth

- 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel- 40Gb QDR InfiniBand- 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet- 10Gb iSCSI

• Fully redundant and hot swappable architecture:flash modules, power supplies, batteries, interfaces, fans, RAID controllers, etc

• Non-disruptive maintenance and updates: concurrent code load, highly serviceable design

• Data-at-rest encryption

• 2U form factor; minimal footprint for best of breed ROI• Low power: 625 watts• Field upgradeable, granular capacity:

2,4,6,8,10,12,16,20,24,32,40,48 TB options• Reduce installation and management time

with intuitive standardized GUI

• Low latency: 135/90 µs R/W• Purpose-built, highly parallel design• Boosts host CPU efficiency and productivity

Macro Efficiency

MicroLatency™

Enterprise Reliability

Extreme Performance

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IBM FlashSystem 840: Flash Optimized Arrays

• Hardware-only data path with extremely LOW latency– Custom FPGA-based data movement decreases latency vs. software

• Distributed out-of-data-path CPU processing• High Performance (IOPS), High Bandwidth

FC FCoE IBFC FCoE IB

CPUs (18)

Interface Controller

Management Module

RAID Controller

Flash Modules (12)

FPGA

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Superior Durability:Using the Best Flash

10X

3X

Superior Protection: Beyond Disk RAID Chip/Plane/Die level protection

Self-Recovering Flash Modules

Avoid system rebuilds

Protection Within And Across Flash Modules

Variable Stripe SizesRead Disturb Mitigation

Automatic Read SweeperHigh-Speed Clock Recovery

Advanced Engineering = Less Maintenance

IBM FlashSystem 840: Reliability Ingredients

SLC Market demand decreasing. eMLC data protection techniques

delivering more wear life than what market demands

eMLC delivers best Price/Performance

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic

3000 persistentvirtual desktops supported by one FlashSystem

90 percentdata reduction through in-line deduplication and compression

4x better TCOthan competing all-flash storage

Solution Components• Citrix XenApp • Atlantis ILIO• IBM FlashSystem 840, 820• IBM SAN Volume Controller• IBM Flex System ®

Business challenge: Kelsey-Seybold’s existing SAN storage could not support its virtual desktop infrastructure without slowing down other critical applications and they needed a scalable solution to handle business growth

The solution: Kelsey-Seybold deployed FlashSystem with Atlantis ILIO software for in-line compression and deduplication and achieved lower cost per desktop and higher performance than dedicated VDI solutions from competing flash vendor

“Atlantis ILIO with our existing IBM storage was a much better solution. I have never seen anything perform faster.”- Bryan McClellan, Systems Architect,

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic

Thank you!

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