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NetAppThe perfect fit for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Philippe WackersSystem Engineer

[email protected]

2© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

The Challenges Associated with Deploying VDI

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

Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays

BuildDesktops

RAID

Build 2nd Gen Desktops

RAID

Backup Production VDIs


The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDIWith NetApp Storage Virtualization

Single storage architecture serves all data protocols

Simplified Management

FlexClone provisions new Datastores which are immediately available and online

Admin Time Reductions

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


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

RAID-DP provides the unmatched data protection andcost efficiencies required by VDI

RAID-DP™

RAID10

Protects against double disk failure40% lower cost than RAID10!


Storage Virtualization makes a difference

Available IOPs (work I can do)

Capacity

Aggregate:Efficient resource utilizationCapacity and IOPs are pooled

Volumes: not tied to physical storageNon-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 AppAppApp

Aggregate

FlexVol


“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

NetApp FAS DeduplicationAdvanced Single Instance StorageDramatic Space Savings for Vmware

Integrated with Data ONTAPGeneral-purpose volume deduplicationIdentifies and removes redundant data blocks

Application AgnosticPrimary StorageBackup DataArchival Data

Extending Asset OptimizationUtilization savings with NetApp Deduplication

Some real customer resultsManaged Service Provider: 45%Medical Services: 65%Retailer: 70%Internet Service Provider: 75%Title Management: 72 - 84%Insurance / Banking (VDI): 94%


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

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Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays

RAID Layer



NetApp FAS System

FlexVol®

Duplicate Data Is Eliminated

VI3 Server

Data Store A


Shrink VMware Storage Footprint

NetApp® deduplication removes the redundant blocks All copies still appear intact to the ESX server

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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


NetApp FAS System VI3 Server

FlexVol A

LUNDatastore A

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

Datastore B

VMDK

VMDK

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Datastore C

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Datastore D

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Datastore E

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Simultaneously Server Both VDI Architecture & End User Data

CIFS File Shares

Store User Profiles & Data

De-Dupe w/ A-SIS

FlexVol B

NetApp Multiprotocol Support Diagram


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


Traditional Storage Array

500 GBs of Storage

500 GB DataStore

VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

500 GBs of Storage

500 GBs of Storage

500 GBs of Storage

500 GB DataStore

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500 GB DataStore

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500 GB DataStore

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Traditional VDI Storage deployment

Storage is Provisioned and connected as a DatastoreVirtual Desktops store their data on Virtual Disks (VMDKs)

Virtual Disks are copied one at a time to create new Virtual machines

Virtual Infrastructure Deployment


1 Create a Gold image DataStore and deduplicate2 FlexClone DataStores as required – instantly and with zero space 3 Datastores and virtual machines are immediately available

Simplest, fast, and most economical Virtual Machine deployment option

VDI Storage & Provisioning with FlexClone

Virtual Infrastructure Deployment

NetApp FAS SystemClone C – 0 GB

Clone B – 0 GBClone A – 0 GB

Gold Master DataStore 500 GBs

500 GB DataStore

VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

500 GB DataStore

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500 GB DataStore

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500 GB DataStore

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Step 1: Build Gold Image Virtual Machine

Create Datastore Create base snapshot ofDatastore

Create Virtual Machine(OS - Apps – Sysprep)

Step 2: Build Gold Image Datastore

FlexClone and attach Datastore

De-duplicate redundantdata with A-SIS

Fill Datastore by VM cloning Gold Image

Virtual Machine

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

NetApp FlexClone Mass Provisioning Process Summary


VI3 Server

Virtual MachineTemplate (VMX)

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V-Disk 0

Datastore A

VMDK

Begin by Building Template of the VM to Deploy

NetApp FAS System

FlexVol

Datastore A



VI3 Server

Virtual MachineTemplate (VMX)

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V-Disk 0

Datastore A

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

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VMDK

Use VMware’s Cloning to Fill the Datastore with VMs

NetApp FAS System

FlexVol

Datastore A



FlexClone the Volume and Mount the Cloned Datastore

NetApp FAS System

FlexVol

Datastore A Datastore B

VI3 Server

Datastore A

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Datastore B

VMDK

VMDK

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…Continue to Build out Datastores with FlexClone…

NetApp FAS System

FlexVol


Datastore C

VI3 Server

Datastore A

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VMDK

VMDK

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Datastore B

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Datastore C

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… and Continue…

NetApp FAS System

FlexVol


Datastore C

Datastore D

VI3 Server

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Datastore B

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Datastore C

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Datastore D

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NetApp FAS System

Datastore E

VI3 Server

Deploy VMs while not utilizing any additional storage capacity

FlexVolDatastore A

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Datastore B

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Datastore C

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Datastore D

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Datastore E

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Datastore C

Datastore D



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?


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


Primary VI3DataCenter

Secondary VI3DataCenter

SnapMirror Replication

VDI Users

NetApp SnapMirror ReplicationFor VDI Backup and Business Continuance


Primary VI3DataCenter

Secondary VI3DataCenter

NetApp SnapMirror ReplicationFor VDI Backup and Business Continuance

VDI Users


The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDIWith NetApp Storage Virtualization

Block level replication technology for de-duplicated data

Business Continuance in minutes

SnapMirror

Instantaneous zero cost storage provisioning

FlexClone

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


Summary

NetApp Value Proposition for Vmware

– Extending asset optimization through storage virtualization

– Accelerating deployment

– Tackling the challenge of backup / recovery

– Simplifying site recovery


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– Virtual Partitioning of storage resources– 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

Physical Storage

FlexVol® Volumes

Virtual Machines

Physical x86 Servers


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