Workspace & Storage Infrastructure for Service Providers Garry Soriano Regional Technical Consultant Citrix Cloud Channel Summit 2015 @rhipecloud #RCCS15
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Confidence in Could with SolidFire Soh Kiat Hiong Senior Consultant SolidFire Cloud Channel Summit 2015 @rhipecloud #RCCS15
Different Faces of the Next Generation DataCenter Software Defined Data Center Virtualization Infrastructure 2.0 IT-as-a-Service Cloud Computing The demands of this NGDC-approach are now being felt strongly by IT organizations of all types; so much so that one can see data centers in the next few years either embracing such a move themselves, or buying their IT services from someone that does. Mark Peters, ESG Next Generation Data Center Agile Scalable Automated Predictable
Cloud Orchestration SolidFire for Multi- Tenanted Cloud Consolidated, Scale Out Storage Virtual Infrastructure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Highly Available & Self Healing Guaranteed Performance w/ QoS Complete Automation, integration w/ Cloud Orchestration Capacity Efficiency with Inline Reduction Databases
All Flash Scale-Out Storage 60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS Max IOPS 7.5 M Max Cap 3.4 PB Linear Scale of Performance and Capacity Capacity 52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS 43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS 35 TB 200,000 IOPS Expand / Contract without disruption or reconfiguration Guaranteed Compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes Future-Proof your storage investment Standard Industry Hardware Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades Never wait 3 years for an upgrade Performance
Highly Available Storage Infrastructure SolidFire Helix Cluster wide RAID-less data protection A F H C o No single points of failure o Automatic self-healing C G B I restores redundancy after failure D J A I o Maintains all QoS settings J E F G regardless of failure condition B D H E o Non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades Native Real-Time Replication Swift API Backup-Integration
Highly Available Storage Infrastructure SolidFire Helix Cluster wide RAID-less data protection o No single points of failure A F H C D o Automatic self-healing restores redundancy after C G B I J failure o Maintains all QoS settings regardless of failure condition J E F G A o Non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades Native Real-Time Replication B D H E I Swift API Backup-Integration
Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications w/ Guaranteed QoS Dynamically Allocate, Manage and Guarantee storage performance independent of capacity Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings for each application / volume SolidFire QoS in Practice Noisy Neighbor 8000 IOPS Decreased Performance 1200 IOPS 1000 IOPS 500 IOPS
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with SolidFire The SolidFire Advantage Adaptable Infrastructure Eliminate Storage Sprawl Granular Scalability Simplified VDI Administration Lowest $/Desktop
XenDesktop on SolidFire Reference Architecture Strong User Experience o 750 desktops < 1ms latency o Consume < 10% of available storage resources Low $/Desktop o 1000 desktops per 1 rack unit (RU). o 50,000 provisionable IOPS per node o 12TB of usable capacity Simplicity of Scale o Granular scale of capacity & performance o Node by node w/o downtime Design Adaptability Dedicated Performance with Shared Infrastructure Economics
SolidFire Powering XenDesktop QoS 750 Desktops delivered via PVS 7 Write Cache File Volumes 11 x 1TB volumes 70 desktops per volume QoS settings per volume miniops = (Number of VM s per Volume) * 25 maxiops = (Number of VM s per Volume) * 100 burstiops = (Number of VM s per Volume) * 250
SolidFire Powering XenDesktop Boot Storm System Center sequentially booted all desktops Peak IO and Bandwidth requirements easily handled Consumed less than 1/8 th available performance of cluster
SolidFire Powering XenDesktop Efficiency Capacity consumed for 750 desktops < 25GB Deduplication factor 6.01x Compression factor 3.26x Total reduction of over 18x on write cache files
The Block Storage Solution for Citrix CloudPlatform Deep CloudPlatform Integration Validated Interoperability Customer Success SolidFire plug-in integrated into both CloudPlatform and CloudStack Create, delete, attach and detach SolidFire volumes via CloudStack UI SolidFire plug-in enables automated Quality of Service per data disk Dynamically provision volumes on the fly Enable the SolidFire plug-in in minutes CloudPlatform 2.x, 3.x, 4.2 certified Citrix Ready certified solutions and part of Citrix Cloud Accelerator program Citrix Demo Cloud Showcase Citrix Merlin Reference Architecture
Creating Primary Storage with the Plug-in Add Primary Storage in CloudPlatform / CloudStack Primary Storage Details Administrator allocates SolidFire resources to CloudPlatform/CloudStack CloudPlatform communicates to SolidFire via the plug-in Capacity and performances resources are now available
Define a Service Offering Define Compute Offering Compute Offering Available New Compute Offering Created Min IOPS for each disk Max IOPS for each disk
SolidFire & Citrix CloudPlatform Citrix Ready Program - SolidFire + XenDesktop + CloudPlatform = scalable multi-tenant and multi-workload architecture Expand Breadth of Services - Confidently host more mission/business critical applications in your cloud Improve Quality of Service - Guaranteed performance to thousands of applications - Provision storage from CloudPlatform with same agility and granularity as compute - Enable end user self-service Lower Cost of Service - Robust APIs allow for deeper integration between SolidFire & CloudPlatform - Completely automate storage administration 25GB - Achieve PB scale within a single management domain
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