NetApp The perfect fit for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Philippe Wackers System Engineer Philippe.Wackers@netapp.com

The Challenges Associated with Deploying VDI Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays Storage Acquisition Costs VDI Requires Enterprise Class Storage Data Protection High Availability Backup VDI Provides Central Desktop Updates Requires Additional Storage Lengthy Mass Deployment Timeframes Cloning 100s – 1,000s of Virtual Machines Takes Time 6-12 Minutes Per Virtual Desktop or 5-10 Virtual Desktops deployed per Hour Backup Production VDIs RAID Build 2nd Gen Desktops RAID Build Desktops 2

The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDI With NetApp Storage Virtualization A-SIS and FlexClone storage savings of 90% RAID-DP reduces data protection costs by 50% Acquisition Cost Reductions RAID-DP provides RAID10 data protection SnapMirror allows de-duplicated data to be backed up without losing the de-duplication Unmatched Data Availability FlexClone provisions new Datastores which are immediately available and online Admin Time Reductions Single storage architecture serves all data protocols Simplified Management 3

NetApp RAID-DP Data Protection A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Must be Available Current Disk Drives have more physical imperfections/errors and are less reliable Time to rebuild increase with disk size RAID5 does not provide enough Data Protection RAID10 doubles the cost of Data Protection RAID10 RAID-DP™ An interruption to storage would take 100s to 1000s of users offline Protects against double disk failure 40% lower cost than RAID10! RAID-DP provides the unmatched data protection and cost efficiencies required by VDI 4

Storage Virtualization makes a difference Volumes: not tied to physical storage Non-fixed storage allocation allows continuous rebalancing across spindles. Better Capacity Management No stranded spindles / capacity RAID Optimization Sharper Data Focus Deduplication Thin Provisioning Policy Based Space Management Quality of Service Backup / Recovery Data Replication App App App App FlexVol Aggregate Capacity Available IOPs (work I can do) Aggregate: Efficient resource utilization Capacity and IOPs are pooled 5

Extending Asset Optimization Utilization savings with NetApp Deduplication NetApp FAS Deduplication Advanced Single Instance Storage Dramatic Space Savings for Vmware Integrated with Data ONTAP General-purpose volume deduplication Identifies and removes redundant data blocks Application Agnostic Primary Storage Backup Data Archival Data Some real customer results Managed Service Provider: 45% Medical Services: 65% Retailer: 70% Internet Service Provider: 75% Title Management: 72 - 84% Insurance / Banking (VDI): 94% “We decided to utilize NetApp SnapMirror for replication and deduplication, and these became a driving factor in our solution achieving 80% storage savings on VMware backup data with deduplication.” A Global Financial Services Firm

VMware: An Opportunity for Deduplication Each Virtual Desktop stores the same data repeatedly: OS software, patches, software drivers, application data VI3 Server Data Store A APP OS APP OS APP OS APP .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays RAID Layer OS APP .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK

Shrink VMware Storage Footprint NetApp® deduplication removes the redundant blocks All copies still appear intact to the ESX server VI3 Server Data Store A APP OS APP OS APP OS APP .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK .VMDK NetApp FAS System FlexVol® Duplicate Data Is Eliminated OS APP .VMDK

NetApp Multiprotocol Support VDI Environments have multiple storage requirements VI3 Server Storage Options Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) iSCSI & NFS via Ethernet VDI End User Storage Requirements CIFS for the storage of User Roaming Profiles and Documents A single NetApp FAS system provides all 4 storage protocols & is certified with VI3 & VDI 9

NetApp Multiprotocol Support Diagram Simultaneously Server Both VDI Architecture & End User Data NetApp FAS System VI3 Server FlexVol A LUN FlexClone B FlexClone C FlexClone D FlexClone E Datastore A VMDK Datastore B VMDK Datastore C VMDK Datastore D VMDK CIFS File Shares Store User Profiles & Data De-Dupe w/ A-SIS FlexVol B Datastore E VMDK v 10

NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning Instantly Provision Cloned Datastores or RDMs Supports FCP, iSCSI, VMFS, RDM, & NAS Clones are Immediately Available Clones Require Zero Additional Storage FlexClone Reduces the storage of Multiple Datastores down to that of a Single Datastore FlexClone provides the ability to provision 1000s of Virtual Machines in minutes 11

Virtual Infrastructure Deployment Traditional VDI Storage deployment Storage is Provisioned and connected as a Datastore Virtual Desktops store their data on Virtual Disks (VMDKs) Virtual Disks are copied one at a time to create new Virtual machines 500 GB DataStore VMDK 500 GB DataStore VMDK Traditional Storage Array 500 GBs of Storage 500 GBs of Storage 500 GBs of Storage 500 GBs of Storage 500 GB DataStore VMDK 500 GB DataStore VMDK

VDI Storage & Provisioning with FlexClone Virtual Infrastructure Deployment VDI Storage & Provisioning with FlexClone 1 Create a Gold image DataStore and deduplicate 2 FlexClone DataStores as required – instantly and with zero space 3 Datastores and virtual machines are immediately available NetApp FAS System Clone C – 0 GB Clone B – 0 GB Clone A – 0 GB Gold Master DataStore 500 GBs 500 GB DataStore VMDK Simplest, fast, and most economical Virtual Machine deployment option 13

NetApp FlexClone Mass Provisioning Process Summary Step 1: Build Gold Image Virtual Machine Create Datastore Create base snapshot of Datastore Create Virtual Machine (OS - Apps – Sysprep) Step 2: Build Gold Image Datastore FlexClone and attach Datastore De-duplicate redundant data with A-SIS Fill Datastore by VM cloning Gold Image Virtual Machine Speak to the amount of time required to Clone VMs via the traditional method. How long would a deployment take? Step 3: Mass Deploy Virtual Machines FlexClone & attach clones of Gold Image Datastore 1000s of VMs deployed in minutes at the storage cost of a single VM Register and start VMs. All are unique and auto join Active Directory 14

NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning Begin by Building Template of the VM to Deploy NetApp FAS System VI3 Server FlexVol Datastore A VMDK Datastore A Virtual Machine Template (VMX) V-Disk 0 v 15

NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning Use VMware’s Cloning to Fill the Datastore with VMs NetApp FAS System VI3 Server FlexVol Datastore A VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore A Virtual Machine Template (VMX) V-Disk 0 v 16

FlexClone the Volume and Mount the Cloned Datastore NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning FlexClone the Volume and Mount the Cloned Datastore NetApp FAS System VI3 Server FlexVol Datastore A VMDK Datastore B VMDK Datastore B Datastore A v 17

…Continue to Build out Datastores with FlexClone… NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning …Continue to Build out Datastores with FlexClone… NetApp FAS System VI3 Server FlexVol Datastore A VMDK Datastore B VMDK Datastore B Datastore A Datastore C Datastore C VMDK v 18

NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning … and Continue… NetApp FAS System VI3 Server FlexVol Datastore A VMDK Datastore B VMDK Datastore B Datastore A Datastore C Datastore C VMDK Datastore D VMDK Datastore D v 19

Deploy VMs while not utilizing any additional storage capacity NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning Deploy VMs while not utilizing any additional storage capacity NetApp FAS System VI3 Server FlexVol Datastore A VMDK Datastore B VMDK Datastore B Datastore A Datastore C Datastore C VMDK Datastore D VMDK Datastore D Datastore E VMDK v Datastore E 20

Backing Up a Virtual Desktop Infrastrucutre A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Must be Backed Up An interruption to storage would take 100s to 1000s of users offline Traditional backup options Backup to tape RTO? Disk to Disk Backup Time? Storage? Bandwidth? Cost? 21

Backing Up a VDI with SnapMirror Disk to Disk back up via SnapMirror The only data de-duplication aware replication technology Space savings are replicated to DR facility Lower time to recover than tape (RTO) Significantly lower costs than traditonal disk replicaiton SnapMirror provides superior solutions for backing up Virtual Desktop Infrastructures 22

NetApp SnapMirror Replication For VDI Backup and Business Continuance Primary VI3 DataCenter Secondary VI3 DataCenter VDI Users SnapMirror Replication 23

NetApp SnapMirror Replication For VDI Backup and Business Continuance Primary VI3 DataCenter Secondary VI3 DataCenter VDI Users 24

Native Multiprotocol Support The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDI With NetApp Storage Virtualization RAID10 data Protection and Performance at ½ the Cost RAID-DP FCP, iSCSI, and NFS for VI3 Connectivity CIFS for storing VDI user profiles and documents Native Multiprotocol Support Reduces storage requirements by 90% A-SIS De-duplication SnapMirror Block level replication technology for de-duplicated data Business Continuance in minutes RAID-DP : Data protection is critical – a failure impacts 10s-100s of end users ASIS – de duplicates Datastores & CIFS user data FlexClone – is for instant 0 cost provisioning of additional Datastores SnapMirror address the huge question f how would someone back up this solution! Multiprotocol is Key for VMware ESX Servers and VDI requires CIFS for user data and profiles Instantaneous zero cost storage provisioning FlexClone 25

Summary NetApp Value Proposition for Vmware Extending asset optimization through storage virtualization Accelerating deployment Tackling the challenge of backup / recovery Simplifying site recovery Review Agenda.

Joint Value Proposition (Virtualizing servers solves only half the problem) Increase ROI of server virtualization by aggregating, thin-provisioning, and dynamically managing resources across flexible storage pools. NetApp storage delivers: Architectural Flexibility Unified Storage (FCP, ISCSI, NFS) Tiered Storage (FC, ATA, SAS) Multi-vendor virtualization (V-Series) Optimized Capacity Virtual Partitioning of storage resources Advanced RAID Thin Provisioning Data De-duplication Optimized Performance Dynamic Storage Resource management Optimized Provisioning Rapid provisioning of storage pools Policy based space management Superior backup and restore capabilities Space efficient backups of virtual machine files and data Rapid recovery of virtual machine files and data Flexible Data Replication Architecture / transport independent Replication and site failover at multiple levels of granularity Virtual Machines Physical x86 Servers Physical Storage FlexVol® Volumes

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