Workspace & Storage Infrastructure for Service Providers Garry Soriano | Regional Technical Consultant | Citrix Cloud Channel Summit 2015 | @rhipecloud #RCCS15
Workspace & Storage Infrastructure for Service Providers
Garry Soriano | Regional Technical Consultant | Citrix
Cloud Channel Summit 2015 | @rhipecloud #RCCS15
The industry’s most complete Mobile
Workspace solution
Windows app security and delivery
High performance virtual desktops
Mobile app & device security
Mobile productivity apps – mail, web
On-premises secure data sync & share
Unified app store
Secure mobile gateway
Workspace & Storage Infrastructure for Service Providers
Soh Kiat Hiong | Senior Consultant | Solid Fire
Cloud Channel Summit 2015 | @rhipecloud #RCCS15
Confidence in Cloud with SolidFire
• Overview
• Multi-Tenanted Cloudo 5 Key Elements
• Citrix VDI & CloudPlatform
• Thank You | Q&A
Different Faces of the Next Generation DataCenter
Next Generation Data Center
Software Defined
Data CenterInfrastructure 2.0
Cloud
Computing
Virtualization
Agile Scalable Automated Predictable
“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
IT-as-a-Service
Highly Scalable All-flash Storage System for the next
generation data center
Performance
Cap
acity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS
52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)
Scale-Out Architecture
• 4 – 100 nodes
• 35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity
• 200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS
Simple all inclusive pricing model
Direct Tier 3 Support for every customer
Industry-standard hardware• 10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC
Cloud
Orchestration
VDI
Databases
SolidFire for Multi-
Tenanted Cloud
• Consolidated, Scale Out
Storage Cluster
• Highly Available
• Guaranteed Performance
• Complete Automation,
integration with Cloud
Orchestration
• Capacity Efficiency with
Inline Reduction
Virtual
Infrastructure
• Platform Compatibility Guarantee
o Ensures that all future software & platforms from
SolidFire will interoperate with existing
infrastructure
• Unlimited Drive Wear Guarantee
o Eliminate concerns around flash endurance
o No restrictions on use-case or workload
Never Obsolete
Unparalleled Investment Protection
No more forklift upgrades
Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Cap
acity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS
52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift
upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract without disruption or
reconfiguration
Highly Available Storage Infrastructure
• SolidFire Helix™
• Cluster wide RAID-less data
protection
o No single points of failure
o Automatic self-healing –
restores redundancy after
failure
o Maintains all QoS settings
regardless of failure
condition
o Non-disruptive hardware
and software upgrades
• Native Real-Time Replication
• Swift API Backup-Integration
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• SolidFire Helix™
• Cluster wide RAID-less data
protection
o No single points of failure
o Automatic self-healing –
restores redundancy after
failure
o Maintains all QoS settings
regardless of failure
condition
o Non-disruptive hardware
and software upgrades
• Native Real-Time Replication
• Swift API Backup-Integration
Highly Available Storage Infrastructure
SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional
performance related storage problems - ESG 2015
Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)
Dynamically Allocate, Manage and
Guarantee storage performance
independent of capacity
Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings
for each application / volume
Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications
Decreased
Performance
Noisy Neighbor
SolidFire QoS in Practice
500 IOPS
1000 IOPS
1200 IOPS
8000 IOPS
• 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
XenDesktop on SolidFire Reference Architecture
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 1/8th 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
▪ 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
The Block Storage Solution for Citrix CloudPlatform
Citrix Demo Cloud
Showcase
Customer SuccessDeep CloudPlatform Integration Validated Interoperability
Citrix Merlin Reference
Architecture
Primary Storage for CloudPlatform
25GB
CloudPlatform + XenServer
(Primary Storage Pools)
SolidFire Cluster
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Orchestration
• Leverage the Primary Storage Volumes
• Create Disk Offering per Service Level
Hypervisor
• Storage Repository per Service Level
• iSCSI attached Volumes to Hypervisor
Compute
• Multiple Tenant VMs/Disks
• VMs Placed by Compute Service Offering
Storage
• iSCSI attached Volumes per Service Level
• QoS Defined per Volume
QoS Defining Performance
• Min IOPS – Guaranteed Floor
• Max IOPS – Controlled Ceiling
• Burst IOPS – Allow Brief Spikes
• Controls Per Volume
• Configurable Volume Size
Service Offerings
• Compute Offering
• Uses the Gold Disk Offering
• Disk Offering
• One Needed for Each Tier
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
- Achieve PB scale within a single management domain
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Proven in the World’s Most Demanding DataCenters
Service Providers Large Enterprise