HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution Reference Architecture with VMware Horizon View 5.3

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1 HUAWEI Virtual Desktop Solution Reference Architecture with VMware Horizon View 5.3 VMware Rapid Desktop Program (RDP), VMware Horizon View 5.3, VMware vsphere 5.x, HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server, HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System

2 Table of Contents 1 Solution Highlights Single Supplier Outstanding Performance and High Scalability High Availability Quick Deployment VMware Horizon View 5.3 Overview Introduction To VMware Horizon View VMware Horizon View 5.3 Infrastructure Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure Reference Architrecture Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform Server Architecture Storage Architecture Solution Validation Conclusion Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 0

3 1 Solution Highlights The VMware Horizon View Rapid Desktop Program provides reference architecture for building VMware virtual desktops on each organization s unique terms. Each View RDP solution helps organizations implement VMware Horizon View virtual desktop environment with increased ease and confidence. Among the benefits of the VMware Horizon View Rapid Desktop Program are faster deployment, reduced risk, and a lower cost of ownership. 1.1 Single Supplier Devices including blade server, network switch and storage system are all from HUAWEI, it is much easier to implement high-degree compatibility, get fast services and decrease maintenance expenses. 1.2 Outstanding Performance and High Scalability VMware Horizon View VDI solution based on HUAWEI platform can supply up to 300 Windows 7 desktops on one OceanStor S5500T with 24 pieces of 2.5 SAS HDDs and six Tecal BH622 V2 blade servers. With high performance and scalability features of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T storage system and Tecal E6000H blade server, it is easy to scale out up to 1200 desktops with 2 E6000H servers and only one OceanStor S5500T with 96 pieces of 2.5 inch SAS disks. HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server, supports up to ten blade servers for each chassis. Tecal BH640 V2 blade server with four Intel Xeon E CPUs is supported, which means the blade server can easily be scaled up. For each OceanStor S5500T storage system, it can be scaled out up to 528 HDDs smoothly, and due to the RAID 2.0+ feature, it is easy to implement storage pool expansion. 1.3 High Availability Due to the redundant architecture of HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server and Oceanstor S5500T storage system, it is easy to implement high availability. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 1

4 For each HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade server, two 8Gpbs FC and 1GBps Ethernet adapters are deployed for redundancy. For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, two NX220 8Gbps FC switch modules and NX230 10Gbps ethernet switch modules are deployed for redundancy. For each Tecal E6000H blade server chassis, six power supply modules are configured for electronic redundancy. For each OceanStor S5500T storage system, two active-active controllers are configured for load-balance and controller redundancy. Full-exchanged interconnection between servers and storage is adopted in this solution to implement storage path redundancy. 1.4 Quick Deployment Validated/Proven VMware Horizon View solution by HUAWEI Storage Solution Team, HUAWEI VMware Horizon View VDI solution could be deployed much faster with lower investment risk and increased confidence. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 2

5 2 VMware Horizon View 5.3 Overview 2.1 Introduction To VMware Horizon View 5.3 VMware Horizon View 5.3 is a desktop virtualization solution that simplifies IT manageability and control while delivering the highest fidelity end-user experience across devices and networks. The VMware Horizon View 5.3 solution helps IT organization automate desktop and application management, reduce costs, and increase data security through centralization of the desktop environment. This centralization results in greater end-user freedom and increased control for IT organizations. By encapsulating the operating systems, applications, and user data into isolated layers, IT organizations can deliver a modern desktop. It can then deliver dynamic, elastic desktop cloud services such as applications, unified communications and 3D graphics for real-world productivity and greater business agility. Unlike other desktop virtualization products, VMware Horizon View 5.3 is built on and tightly integrated with vsphere, the industry leading virtualization platform, allowing customers to extend the value of VMware infrastructure and its enterprise-class features such as high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity. VMware Horizon View 5.3 creates a modern, user-centric approach to computing that maximizes end user freedom and optimizes IT control. VMware Horizon View 5 allows IT to simplify and automate the management of thousands of desktops and to securely deliver desktop as a service to users from a central location with levels of availability and reliability unmatched by traditional PCs. By delivering secure access to applications and data to any device, when and where the user needs it, VMware Horizon View 5.3 provides end users with the highest levels of mobility and flexibility. 2.2 VMware Horizon View 5.3 Infrastructure The VMware Horizon View 5.3 inftastructure contains a series of components, including: VMware vsphere 5.x including ESXi 5.x, VMware vcenter 5.x and vsphere Client 5.x; VMware Horizon View Composer 5.3.0; Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 3

6 VMware Horizon View Connection/Replica/Security Server 5.3.0; VMware Horizon View Agent 5.3.0; VMware Horizon View Client 5.3.0; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64 Bit With Active Directory, DNS and DHCP; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2; The detailed infrastructure architecture of VMware Horizon View is shown as follow. Figure 2-1 VMware Horizon View Infrastracture Architecture 2.3 Challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure For Virtual Desktop Inftastructure scenarios, there are lots of challenges, including: Boot Storm A boot storm is caused when a large population of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) users boot up which always causes serious pressure for servers and storage system. Login Storm A login storm is caused when a large population of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) users log into their desktop which causes serious pressure for servers and storage system. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 4

7 Boot storm and login storm are always two huge challenges for Virtual Desktop Inftastructure which bring defficulties for deploying and manage virtualization scenarios. -virus Scanning Storm Scheduled anti-virus scanning can cause extremely high pressure for servers and storage system with large scale of random read IOPS. User Workload Applications During steady state, about ten random write IOPS would be caused for each virtual desktop, which would also cause high pressure for storage system. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 5

8 3 Reference Architrecture 3.1 Solution Architecture on HUAWEI Platform The detailed solution infrastructure is provided as following. Figure 3-1 HUAWEI VMware View 5.3 VDI Solution Infrastracture In this solution, one HUAWEI Tecal E6000 blade server chassis and six HUAWEI BH622 v2 blade servers are used as ESXi hosts for virtual desktop pools. Two HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 rack servers are used, one for VMware vsphere Center with View Composer, and the other for ESXi host to create virtual Windows Active Directory, DHCP server, DNS server, View Connection Servers, View replica server and View security servers. Detailed configurations for HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server, Tecal RH2288 V2 rack server and OceanStor S5500T storage system are shown as follows Server configuration The detailed information for HUAWEI E6000H blade chassis and BH622 V2 blade servers used in the HUAWEI VMware Horizon View VDI solution is shown Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 6

9 in Table 4-1 and Table 4-2. Table 3-1 Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade Server Chassis Hardware Description HUAWEI E6000H Chassis Tecal Blade 6 * HUAWEI BH622 V2 blade server 2 * HUAWEI NX220 8Gbps FC switch module 2 * HUAWEI NX230 10Gbps Ethernet switch module 2 * BMC management module 6 * power supply module 9 * thermal fans Table 3-2 Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 blade Server Hardware Description CPU: 2 * Intel Xeon E Series with 8 cores and Hyper-Threading technology, 32 physic cores in total Memory: 12 * 16 GB DDRIII Memory HUAWEI Tecal BH622 V2 Blade Server Hard Disk: 2 * 300 GB 2.5 inch 10K RPM SAS Disk Ethernet Adapter: 2 * built-in Intel Gbps ethernet adapter 2 * built-in Intel 82599EB 10Gbps ethernet adapter Fibre Channel Adapter: 2 * built-in Emulex LPe Gbps FC adapter The detailed information for HUAWEI RH2288 V2 servers used in the HUAWEI and VMware Horizon View VDI solution is shown in Table 4-3. Table 3-3 Detailed Information for HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Rack Server Hardware Description Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 7

10 CPU: 2 * Intel Xeon E Series with 8 cores and Hyper-Threading technology, 32 physic cores in total Memory: 8 * 16 GB or 16 * 16 GB DDRIII HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Rack Server Hard Disk: 2 * 300 GB 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch SAS Disk, 24 pieces of HDDs supported maximumly Storage Configuration Ethernet Adapter: 4 * built-in Intel Gbps Ethernet adapter 2 * external Intel 82599EB 10 Gbps Ethernet adapter (optional) Fibre Channel Adapter 2 * external Qlogic ISP2532-based 8Gbps FC adapter (optional) In this solution, one OceanStor S5500T storage system with 24 pieces of 2.5 inch SAS HDDS is deployed. The detailed configuration is shown as follow. Table 3-4 Detailed Information for HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System Hardware Description 2 * controller CPU: 1 * Intel CPU with 4 cores for each controller Memory: HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System 8 GB or 16 GB DDRIII Front-end Interface for each controller: 4 * 8Gbps FC interface 4 * 1Gbps iscsi interface (optional) 2 * 10Gbps iscsi interface ( optional) 4 * 10Gbps Toe interface ( optional) Management Interface: 1 * 1Gbps Ethernet interface for each controller SAN Storage Network Configuration In this solution, two 8Gbps fibre channel interfaces on each Tecal BH622 V2 blade server are connected to both NX220 8Gbps fibre channel switch modules, and each NX220 fibre channel switch module is connected to both storage Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 8

11 controllers on OceanStor S5500T storage system. The detailed SAN storage network configuration is shown as follow. Figure 3-2 SAN Storage Network Configuration 3.2 Server Architecture HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server The E6000H chassis adopts the optimized layout and space design from the E6000 chassis, and uses a high-speed and passive backplane to support 8G FC or 10GE switching, making it an excellent choice for high-density and clustered deployment scenarios. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 9

12 Figure 3-3 HUAWEI Tecal E6000H Blade Server Overview Feature Outstanding Performance Thanks to Optimized Architecture Provides 8 U spaces for 10 blade servers and optimized layout for fans, PSUs, switch modules, and management modules. The architecture meets single-node computing performance and power consumption balance requirements, and maintains an excellent space balance in a fully-configured 42 U cabinet. Supports the BH620 V2, BH621 V2, BH622 V2, and BH640 V2 blade servers with Intel Xeon E5 series CPUs to meet low-end, middlerange, and high-end customer requirements. Supports up to six 1 Gbps, 10Gbps, FC switch or straight through modules. Feature High Reliability and Energy-Saving Uses a cost-effective AC/DC or DC/DC converter to supply 12 V DC power and achieve a power conversion efficiency of up to 92% to reduce losses from power conversion. Uses optimized air ducts, and supports power capping, power alternate hibernation, and intelligent fan speed adjustment to reduce system power consumption and improve heat dissipation efficiency for maximum power consumption management and control. Uses N+1 redundant fans and N+N redundant management modules, PSUs, and switch modules; supports load balancing; provides seamless failover; and uses a passive backplane to prevents single point failures and ensure data security. Uses carrier-class design, manufacturing process, and components to ensure high reliability Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 10

13 Feature Easy and Efficient Management Thanks to Intelligent Platform Supports hot swap for all FRUs. Supports IPMI 2.0 specifications to monitor hardware operations and record and query alarms and logs. Supports SOL, KVM over IP, Web UI, and virtual media. Supports a variety of protocols including the SNMP v3, SNMP Trap v1, SSL, SSH, RMCP, and RMCP+.Uses Zero Touch-based remote maintenance for startup, shutdown, and reset to reduce O&M costs. For more information about HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server, please see: HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Rack Server The HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 series (RH2288 V2 for short) is a new-generation 2U 2-socket rack server. Featuring two Intel Xeon E series processors, the RH2288 V2 provides a memory capacity of 768 GB and a storage capacity of 38 TB, making it an ideal product for critical services and cloud computing. Figure 3-4 HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 Series Rack Server For more information about HUAWEI Tecal RH2288 V2 series rack server, please see: Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 11

14 3.3 Storage Architecture HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System The storage design for any virtualization-based solution is a critical element that is typically responsible for a large percentage of the solution s overall cost, performance, and agility. HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T series unified storage system is a new-generation storage product for mid-range and high-end storage applications. It boasts integration of block-level and file-level data storage. Support for a variety of storage protocols, and GUI-based central storage management. Delivering leading performance, enhanced efficiency, maximized return on investment, and all-in-one solutions, and the S5000T series is ideally applicable to scenarios such as large-database OLTP/OLAP, high-performance computing, digital media, Internet applications, central storage, backup, disaster recovery, and data migration. Figure 3-5 HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Unified Storage System The internal architecture of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T unified storage system meets the principle of high availability. Full component redundancy prevents single points of failure. Data coffer and file system mirror improve system reliability. The dual Active/Active controller provides interruption-free redundancy to ensure operational reliability and availability. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 12

15 Figure 3-6 HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System inside architecture 1System enclosure 4Controller module 2Power module 3Fan-BBU module 5Disk module For more information about HUAWEI S5000T series unified storage system, please see: Each HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage System consists of two controllers, redundant power supplies and fans, shown as follow. Figure 3-7 HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Backplane The interfaces on controller of HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Unified Storage System are shown as follow. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 13

16 Figure 3-8 Interfaces on HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Storage Contrllers Storage Features for HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T Feature Outstanding Performance Storage performance is a complex mix of drive, interface, controller, cache, protocol, SAN, HBA, driver, and operating system considerations. The overall performance of the storage architecture is typically measured in terms of maximum throughput, maximum I/O operations per second (IOPS), and latency or response time. Although each of these performance measurements is important, IOPS and latency are the most relevant to server virtualization. Most modern SANs use a combination of high-speed disks, slower-speed disks, and large memory caches. A storage controller cache can improve performance during burst transfers or when the same data is accessed frequently by storing it in the cache memory, which is typically several orders of magnitude faster than the physical disk I/O. However, it is not a substitute for adequate disk spindles because caches are ineffective during heavy write operations. For HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T storage system, with HUAWEI SmartTier storage feature, it is easy combining solid state disk, traditional SAS and SATA or NL-SAS disk to implement high performance using Smart Tier. Solid state disks producted by HUAWEI can be used for Tier 0 as the high performance layer, SAS disks are used as the performance layer, and the NL-SAS disks are used as capacity layer. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 14

17 Figure 3-9 SmartTier Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System Using SmartTier feature, hotspot data is migrated from SAS or NL-SAS/SATA disk to solid state disk automatically, which means that the hotspot data would be on the high performance layer and it is easy to implement high IO performance. Feature Multiple Drive Types Supported HUWEI OceanStor S5000T series Storage System supports SAS, NL SAS, and SATA, FC and SSD disks, fitting into various scenarios. For high performance it is recommended to choose solid state disk (SSD), for both performance and capacity it is recommended to choose SSD and SAS disks, for capacity NL-SAS and SATA disks are recommended. Feature Multipathing In all cases, multipathing should be used. VMware ESXi 5.x supports three native multipathing policies, including Most Recently Used (MRU), Fixed (Fixed) and Round Robin (RR). These multipathing policies apply to VMware's Native Multipathing Path Selection Plugins (PSP). In this solution, Round Robin is used as the default multipathing policy, and ALUA protocol is used as the default storage interconnection protocol (SATP). The method for configuring storage interconnection protocol and multipathing policy is shown as following. Step 1. Connect to ESXi host using SSH client. Step 2. Execute the following commands: # esxcli storage nmp satp rule add --satp=vmw_satp_alua --vendor="huawei" -- description "HUAWEI SAN Storage" # esxcli storage nmp satp set --default-psp=vmw_psp_rr --satp VMW_SATP_ALUA Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 15

18 # reboot Feature Multiple Front-end Interfaces Supported Multiple front-end interconnection interaces are supported by HUAWEI OceanStor S5500T storage system, including 1Gbps/10Gbps iscsi, 2/4/8/16Gbps FC, 10Gbps FCoE, 10Gbps Toe, etc. Feature Thin Provisioning HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T series Storage System allows on-demand allocation of storage space rather than the traditional method of pre-allocating all storage space at the initial stage. It is more efficient because the amount of resources used is close to the amount of resources allocated. In this way, the initial purchase cost and total cost of ownership are reduced. The thin provisioning feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage is called SmartThin, shown as follow. Figure 3-10 Smart Thin Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System Feature Volume Snapshots The volume snapshots feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T series storage system is shown as follow. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 16

19 Figure 3-11 Snapshots Feature for HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T Storage System Using Snapshots feature on HUAWEI OceanStor S5000T storage system, it is easy to implement LUN backup and recovery for Specific point-in-time. 3.4 Solution Validation Validation Tool --- VMware ViewPlanner VMware View Planner is a tool designed to simulate a large scale deployment of virtualized desktop systems and study its effects on an entire virtualized infrastructure. The tool is scalable from a few virtual machines running on one VMware ESX/ESXi host up to hundreds of virtual machines distributed across a cluster of ESX/ESXi hosts. View Planner assists in the setup and configuration of the testing infrastructure, runs a set of application operations selected to be representative of real-world user applications, and reports data on the latencies of those operations. The version of VMware ViewPlanner used for this validation is The following picture shows the test model of VMware View Planner. View Planner uses the application controller to push virtual desktops to simulate the real-world users applications. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 17

20 Figure 3-12 Test Model for VMware View Planner View Planner simulates application workloads for various user types, (task workers, knowledge workers, and power users) by running applications typically used in a Windows desktop environment. During the execution of a workload, applications are randomly called to perform common desktop user operations, including open, save, close, minimize and maximize windows; view an HTML page, insert text, insert words and numbers, conduct a slideshow, view a video, send and receive , and compress files. View Planner uses a patent pending watermark technique to quantify the user experience and measure application latency on a user client/remote machine. ViewPlanner 2.1 workloads come from the following applications: Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook 2007/2010 Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher Document browse Picture album browse Mozilla Firefox 7.x or higher Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.x or higher Archiving software Video playback software Customized applications Validation Environment The detailed information for the solution validation is shown as follows. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 18

21 Table 3-5 Solution Validation Environment Profile Profile Value Number of Virtual Desktop 300 Desktop Operating System Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 32 bit with Server Pack 1 vcpu per Virtual Desktop vmemory per Virtual Desktop 1 vcpu 2 GB vmemory VMware vsphere Version 5.5 VMware Horizon View Version VMware Horizon View Composer Number of Disk RAID Group 2 Number of HDD per RAID Group 11 RAID Level 5 Number of Hot Spare Disk 2 Hard Disk Type 2.5 inch 900GB 10KRPM SAS Disk Number of DataStore in ESXi Cluster 2 Number of ESXi Cluster 1 Number of ESXi Server in Cluster for Desktop Pools 6 Number of Desktop Pool 2 Number of Desktop in Each Pool Validation Result The VMware Viewplanner 3.0 test result shows as follow. Test Score Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 19

22 Test Start Time :29:19 Test Status Benchmark scoring requirements (BR) met Workload Summary Score Number of Desktops Desktops (Failed) Desktops (Not Run) Iterations (Total) Iterations (Scored) (BR:=5) 3 Qos Summary Field GroupA GroupA Missing Events Value 95th percentile: s (BR: _ 1.0s) None Field GroupB GroupB Missing Events Value 95th percentile: s (BR: _ 6.0s) None Application Response Time Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 20

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24 4 Conclusion Proven/Validated by HUAWEI Storage Solution Team, the HUAWEI Tecal E6000H blade server and OceanStor S5500T storage system can easily implement high-compatiblity, high-performance, high-scalability, and low-cost and low-risk VMware Horizon View VDI solutions with rapid deployment. Ver 1.0 HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd 22