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Lenovo Client Virtualization April 24-26, 2017

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Lenovo Engineered

Client Virtualization Solutions Ron Kunkel

Worldwide Solutions Marketing

rkunkel@lenovo.com

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Lenovo Engineered Solutions

Cloud Big Data Analytics Database Client Virtualization

Managing data

quickly to support

analytic and

transactional

applications

Accelerate

decision making

and gain insights

into key trends

Gathering &

analyzing volumes

of raw data to

generate value

and profits

Keeping data secure

and applications

scalable for remote

and mobile users

Efficiency through

provisioning,

simplicity and

virtualization of

compute, storage and

networking

SAP BWA

Lower TCO Reduce Risk Reduce Complexity

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A Strong Foundation

In the latest TBR survey (2H 2016), Lenovo was the #1 vendor for the 6th consecutive study going back to January 2015, and in 22 of 28 studies since 2H 2009.

#1 CUSTOMER

SATISFACTION

32 Current World Record x86 Benchmarks

Lenovo enables faster data analysis.

largest partner with over 50% of SAP installs on Lenovo hardware and #1 in SAP SD and BW performance

SAP PERFORMANCE

AND HANA INSTALLATIONS

#1

#1 in ITIC Reliability Survey for 4 years running.

#1 X86 SERVER RELIABILITY

Lenovo is the fastest growing TOP500 HPC vendor worldwide and ranks 2nd in the number of fastest systems.

TOP500 HPC VENDOR

#2 #1 MICROSOFT SQL 2016

PERFORMANCE

x3950 X6 TPC-H @ 30,000 GB non-clustered1, x3850 X6 TPC-H @ 10,000 GB non-clustered2, x3650 M5 TPC-E3 and x3850 X6 TPC-E4

Results as of 7/11/2016.

1. http://www.tpc.org/3321

2. http://www.tpc.org/3325

3. http://www.tpc.org/4076

4. http://www.tpc.org/4078

Of 300 companies over $12B rev across industries recognizing supply chain leadership and best practices

GARTNER SUPPLY CHAIN

#25

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Key Reasons for Client Virtualization

• Reduce security risks by retaining data in a remote data center & not on a local or mobile device

• Improve availability of applications

• Improve data accessibility on multiple devices

• Reduce TCO with operational efficiencies:

• Allows quick patching of the OS and applications

• Improve SLAs

• Allows device independence

• Simplifies data recovery, archiving, purging, & backup

• Allows IT administrators to react quickly to ever changing needs

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Virtual Desktops serve multiple industries & use cases

Healthcare Doctors, nurses, administrators Patients in hospitals, assisted living and health centers

Banking Tellers, supervisors, advisers in the front office, contact centers representatives, back-office users

Manufacturing Casual users in manufacturing plants Contact center representatives Travelling salespeople and executives

Retail Store workers, contact center reps Back-office users

Education Students, teachers, staff, administrators K-12, universities, training centers

IT services MSPs, SI’s, Professional Services

State, Local, Federal Agencies Leaders, staff, service agents, case workers Defense, Security, Intelligence

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Broad Portfolio Breadth / Depth

Easily managed

integration of

compute,

storage and

networking

Blades / Converged

Flex System

Rack Servers

System x3550/x3650

Hyperconverged

ThinkAgile HX

Space optimized

with extreme

performance and

energy efficiency

Popular

ThinkAgile HX

Models that

scale linearly

from very small

to very large

General Purpose VDI Accelerated Graphics

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Four Reference Architectures to Choose From

HX Series RA • Citrix XenDesktop

• VMware Horizon

Multiple

Platforms • Citrix XenDesktop

Multiple

Platforms • VMware Horizon

Architectures

& Clients • Lenovo Client

Virtualization

Thinks of these RAs as Cookbooks for deploying Client Virtualization Solutions

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Lenovo Client Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop

• Platforms supported in this RA

– System x3550, System x3650; Flex System x240

• Hypervisors Supported

– XenDesktop is an open architecture that supports several hypervisors

– VMware ESXi (vSphere), Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft Hyper-V

• Provisioning – Two Types

– Provisioning Services (PVS) – Streams a single desktop image to create multiple virtual desktops on one or more servers; Pro: VM on a target device does not need local hard disk drive to operate;

– Machine Creation Services (MCS) - Streams a single desktop image using integrated functionality built into the hypervisor; Pro: Requires fewer servers

• User Types

– Office Workers – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

– Power Workers – CAD, Programmers, Video Creation

– Knowledge Workers – SAP, Finance

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Citrix XenDesktop RA - Supported Operational Models

The hyper-converged

model w/ ThinkAgile HX

can be deployed in a

linear fashion from a

small number of users

(100) up to a large

number of users (>4000)

Converged systems are

not recommended for

the SMB space;

Converged H/W chassis

can require more

overhead for only a few

compute nodes

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Citrix XenDesktop RA - Performance Results for Hypervisors

• This RA provides performance results for all three worker types and on all three hypervisors provisioned with Machine Creation Services

• Client Types

– Stateless – Desktop image not personalized to an individual user and have the same appearance for all users

– Dedicated – Desktop images dedicated to one user and can be personalized

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Citrix XenDesktop RA - Sizing for User Types

• Compute server recommendation for Office workers

• “The default recommendation for this processor family is the Xeon E5-2680v4 processor and 512 GB of system memory because this configuration provides the best coverage for a range of users. Lenovo testing shows that 225 users per server is a good baseline and has an average of 75% usage of the processors in the server. If a server goes down, users on that server must be transferred to the remaining servers. For this degraded failover case, Lenovo testing shows that 270 users per server have an average of 87% usage of the processors. It is important to keep this 25% headroom on servers to cope with possible failover scenarios”

• Compute server recommendation for Knowledge workers

• “For knowledge workers the default recommendation for this processor family is the Xeon E5-2680v4 processor and 512 GB of system memory. Lenovo testing shows that 175 users per server is a good baseline and has an average of 77% usage of the processors in the server. If a server goes down…”

• Compute server recommendation for Power workers

• “For power workers, the default recommendation for this processor family is the Xeon E5-2699v4 processor and 768 GB of system memory. Lenovo testing shows that 175 users per server is a good baseline and has an average of 72% usage of the processors in the server. If a server goes down…”

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Citrix XenDesktop RA - Sizing for Processor Types

• This RA provides performance results for all three worker types and on all three hypervisors for different processors

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Citrix XenDesktop RA - Sizing for Graphics Accelerators

• Guidance provided for all three supported hypervisors and for multiple GPUs

• The VMware ESXi hypervisor supports the following options for multiple GPUs and modes of operation

– Dedicated GPU with one GPU per user: Virtual dedicated graphics acceleration (vDGA) mode

– GPU hardware virtualization (vGPU) for 1 - 8 users

– Shared GPU with users sharing a GPU: Virtual shared graphics acceleration (vSGA)

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Citrix XenDesktop RA - Standard Reference Models

• Other topics addressed:

– Storage types and sizing recommendations

– Networking types and sizing recommendations

– Management sizing recommendations

• Standard Models Offered with Use Cases, BOMS and Architectures for:

– 3000 Office Users

– 4500 Office Users

– 128 CAD Power Users

4500 User Model 3000 User Model 128 User Model

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Deliver Hardware Like Software with Lenovo XClarityTM

Reduce time to market

48%

Reduce power consumption

25%

Less time to deploy than

competitor solutions

Optimize thermals to

reduce power consumption

for cooling

Improve administrator efficiency

72% Fewer steps to deploy than

competitor solutions

Asset & Inventory

Management

Configuration Patterns

Firmware Updates

OS & Hypervisor Installation

Fault Handling

Power Management

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Engage with Lenovo

Prove

Collaborate with data center

solution experts to validate

industry leading solutions built

on Lenovo server, storage and

networking products

Share

Discuss customer needs, share

evolving industry trends, review

Lenovo’s strategy and family of

data center offerings

Experience

Review and explore

demonstrations of Lenovo’s

data center solutions that can

transform your data center

• Executive Briefing Centers and Innovation Centers

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Next Generation IT: Converged and

Hyperconverged Steven Loeschorn

Executive Briefing Center – Data Center Group

sloeschorn@lenovo.com

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Traditional

3-Tiered IT

Infrastructure

2-in-1

Hybrids

SDI

Single-Mode

Devices

IT Is At A Major Crossroad. Which Way Will You Go?

Strategic

Inflection Point*

Business

Reaches

New Heights

Business

Declines

*Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove

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Lenovo and Nutanix Partnership

Jointly developed, new Lenovo branded family of hyperconverged appliances

Substantial investment in platform engineering and joint innovation

Dedicated Lenovo sales & technical teams with software support by Nutanix

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Radically Simplify IT with HX Series

Private Cloud

Automation

Fiber Channel

Network Storage Array

Servers

Data Protection &

Space Efficiency Hypervisor & VM

Management

Converge Several Data Center Services into a single platform

Lenovo Converged

HX Series

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HX Series Advantages

Preloaded,

fully tested,

integrated

datacenter

building

blocks

Simple

To Deploy

Ease of

Management

Lower

Opex and

Capex

Industry

Leading

Reliability

Smaller

Footprint

Limitless Scalability

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The Lenovo HX Series currently supports 3 hypervisors: • Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (built-in at no additional charge) • VMware ESXi Hypervisor • Microsoft Hyper-V

ESXi AHV

Hypervisor Support

Hyper-V

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The Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform software is comprised of 2 key parts:

Nutanix Software

Acropolis

Data

Services

Scale-out Capabilities

Automated Data

Tiering

Data Protection & Security

Disaster Recovery

Space Efficiency

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Nutanix System Architecture

Single Storage Pool

Natively Supports

Tiering Data Protection Dedupe

Compression High Availability

Node 1 (HX #1) Node 2 (HX #2) Node 3 (HX #3)

X86 X86 X86

Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

CVM CVM CVM

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Storage Storage

Hypervisor Hypervisor

Controller VM Controller VM

Anatomy of a Write I/O

Node

Guest VM

Hypervisor

Controller VM

Storage

Node Node

Performance and availability

• Data is written locally

• Replicated on other nodes for high availability

• Replicas are spread across cluster for high performance

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Anatomy of a Read I/O

Storage Storage

Hypervisor Hypervisor

Controller VM Controller VM

Node

Guest VM

Hypervisor

Controller VM

Storage

Node Node

Performance and availability

• Data is read locally

• Remote access only if data is not locally present

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vMotion/DRS or Live Migration

Seamless VM Migration

• Metadata service can access data from anywhere

• Locality improves over time

Storage Storage

Hypervisor Hypervisor

Controller VM Controller VM

Node

Guest VM

Hypervisor

Controller VM

Storage

Node Node

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The Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform software is comprised of 2 key parts:

Nutanix Software

Acropolis

Data

Services

Prism

Management

Services

One-click Infrastructure Management

One-click Operational

Insights

One-click Remediation

Scale-out Capabilities

Automated Data

Tiering

Data Protection & Security

Disaster Recovery

Space Efficiency

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Prism Interface

• Prism provides consolidated view of configuration, performance and health information

• Prism saves time by automated time consuming tasks - Create new storage container for new application deployments

- Add additional node to cluster for workload expansion

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TCO Analysis – Wikibon Analysis

Source: http://wikibon.com/case-study-lenovonutanix-appliance-for-microsoft-application-environment/

...the most important

reason for deploying a

converged appliance is

the increase in agility,

availability and quality of

application that can be

delivered to the

business…

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Intel E5-2600 v3 CPUs

Lenovo HX Platform Expansion

Lenovo Converged HX3500

Lenovo Converged HX5500

Lenovo Converged HX7500

Compute

Heavy

High

Performance

Storage

Heavy

Lenovo Converged HX7510 (2U) HX7000 Series

High Performance

Lenovo Converged HX5510 Lenovo Converged HX5510-C HX5000 Series

Storage Heavy

Lenovo Converged HX3710-F (2U4N) Lenovo Converged HX3710 (2U4N)

Lenovo Converged HX3510-G

Lenovo Converged HX3310 Lenovo Converged HX3310-F

HX3000 Series

Compute Heavy

Lenovo Converged HX1310 HX1000 Series

ROBO

Intel E5-2600 v4 CPUs

HX##10-F: All-flash model

HX##10-G: GPU model

HX##10-C: Storage-only model

HX##10-E: Xpress-based model

Lenovo Converged HX2310-E HX2000 Series

SMB

Lenovo Converged HX2710-E (2U4N)

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HX vs Public Cloud

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, 2017

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Reduce complexity, Enhance velocity; Hyperconverged

ROBO, SMB HX1000, HX2000 Series

Compute Heavy HX3000 Series

Storage Heavy HX5000 Series

High Performance HX7000 Series

Improve Performance Reduce TCO Accelerate Deployment

Hyperconverged

Strategy 32% CAGR* from 2017 to 20201

1. Disrupt with innovative offerings, no legacy to protect

2. Offer workload specific offerings to simplify consumption

3. Combine best of breed HW with industry leading partners

1. Per IDC Converged Systems forecast model, June 2017

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Solution components

Hardware

• Lenovo Converged HX5500

Appliance with Intel® Xeon® E5 family

of processors

• Lenovo RackSwitch G8272 switches

Software

• Nutanix Acropolis and Prism

Enterprise Cloud Platform Software,

AHV

• Lenovo XClarity

Services

• Lenovo HX Series Implementation

Services, Workload Migration

Services

HEARTLAND JIFFY LUBE

Revving up the reliability of its IT services with hyperconverged infrastructure from

Lenovo

Client success summary Oil change and car service provider Heartland Jiffy Lube found that its diverse and

aging IT infrastructure was increasingly impacting operations and employee

productivity. To boost availability and reliability, the company implemented Intel®

Xeon® processor-equipped Lenovo Converged HX5500 Appliance with Nutanix

Enterprise Cloud Platform software – radically simplifying its infrastructure. Today,

Heartland Jiffy Lube has peace of mind that IT systems will run uninterrupted, all

while leaving room for growth.

Automotive / Retail

“I can sleep soundly

knowing that we can rely

100 percent on the Lenovo

servers – we know that they

won’t just crash in the

middle of the night!” — Chidi Alams, Head of IT, Heartland

Jiffy Lube

Case study

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Solution components

Hardware

• Lenovo Converged HX3500 Appliance

with Intel® Xeon® E5 family of processors

Software

• Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform

Software

Services

• Lenovo installation and implementation

services

Clients

• Lenovo N22 Chromebooks and Lenovo

N22 Window laptops with Intel Celeron®

N3050 family of processors

GOAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

Delivering grade-A academic services to students with Lenovo technology

Customer success summary GOAL Academy High School delivers academic courses and learning material to

students online. But without a centralized server infrastructure in place, the school

found it increasingly difficult to react rapidly to curriculum changes, and often

suffered from unplanned outages. To boost agility, performance and reliability,

GOAL Academy implemented the Lenovo Converged HX3500 Series appliance

with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software. Supported by the Lenovo

solution, GOAL Academy can give students anytime access to up to date learning

material – without interruption.

Education

“The Lenovo HX solution is

an absolute rock star – the

hyperconverged cluster

does everything we need it

to do and then some.” — Jamie Trujillo, Director of Information

Technology, GOAL Academy High

School

Case study

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Solution components

Hardware

• Lenovo Converged HX3310

Appliance with Intel® Xeon® E5

family of processors

Software

• Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform

• Wonderware (distilleries)

• VMware (back office)

BEAM SUNTORY

Keeping distillery operations flowing 24/7 with ultra-reliable Lenovo

infrastructure

Customer success summary From grain to glass, Beam Suntory must ensure that manufacturing systems run

24 hours a day, seven days a week to distill the premium spirits the company is

known for.

To minimize the risk of unplanned downtime, Beam Suntory replaced the aging IT

infrastructure supporting its core Wonderware industrial management systems with

Lenovo Converged HX3310 hyperconverged appliances, integrated with Nutanix

software. Now, the company has complete confidence that its IT systems will run

uninterrupted, keeping the drinks coming.

Consumer

Products

“Previously, I’d always have

concerns at the back of my

mind about our aging

infrastructure going down and

impacting production. Now with

the Lenovo solution in place,

I can sleep soundly at night!"

— Sanjay Kirtikar, Director Digital

Technologies, Beam Suntory

Case Study

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Workloads using the Lenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliances

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Client Virtualization on HX3310 and HX3510 Platforms The Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances are available in five families

that can be tailored to your needs:

• HX3000 Series: optimized for compute-heavy workloads like client

virtualization.

The Lenovo Converged HX3310 and 3510 platforms deliver a turnkey

infrastructure solution for VMware Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop client

virtualization workloads and benefit from:

• Higher performance and scalability: Start small and scale

databases as your needs grow, but without the concessions of

traditional infrastructure.

• Improved availability: Keep key applications protected and running

with frequent, easy-to-restore backups and affordable, simple disaster

recovery.

• Reduced operational complexity: Leverage simple, consumer-

grade management, VMcentric operations and unprecedented

The Lenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliance is simple to deploy

with compute, storage and virtualization co-located on a single node

• Enables you to dramatically simplify your server, storage and

virtualization deployments and pool your resources into a single

virtualized infrastructure

Starting with as few as three nodes to keep your acquisition

costs down, the Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances are

capable of immense scalability as your needs grow and support

a rich suite of workloads which are detailed herein.

HX3310-F

HX3510-G

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Citrix XenDesktop & VMware Horizon on HX Series All Flash

The Lenovo Converged HX3310 hybrid appliance has been complimented

with an all flash variant:

The results for all flash and hybrid are somewhat similar for relatively low

logon rates of every 30 seconds, with the HX-3310-F providing some

slight advantages.

However as the logon rate increases, the all flash HX3310-F appliance

delivers better performance compared to the hybrid HX3310 appliance.

The all flash appliance has a higher capacity for IOPS and lower

latencies, particularly for the write requests that occur during a logon and

any accesses to slower hard drives is eliminated.

HX3310-F

Performance comparison of hybrid and all flash stateless desktops with

Citrix XenDesktop

Performance comparison of hybrid and all flash dedicated desktops with

Citrix XenDesktop

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Four Reference Architectures to Choose From

HX Series RA • Citrix XenDesktop

• VMware Horizon

Multiple

Platforms • Citrix XenDesktop

Multiple

Platforms • VMware Horizon

Architectures

& Clients • Lenovo Client

Virtualization

Thinks of these RAs as Cookbooks for deploying Client Virtualization Solutions

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