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NetApp
The perfect fit for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Philippe Wackers
System Engineer

Philippe.Wackers@netapp.com

The Challenges Associated with Deploying VDI

Storage Acquisition Costs
VDI Requires Enterprise Class Storage
Data Protection High Availability Backup
Backup Production VDIs RAID Build 2nd Gen Desktops RAID Build Desktops Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays

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

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The Advantages of Deploying VMwares VDI With NetApp Storage Virtualization

Acquisition Cost Reductions

A-SIS and FlexClone storage savings of 90% RAID-DP reduces data protection costs by 50%

Unmatched Data Availability

RAID-DP provides RAID10 data protection SnapMirror allows de-duplicated data to be backed up without losing the de-duplication

Admin Time Reductions

FlexClone provisions new Datastores which are immediately available and online

Simplified Management
Single storage architecture serves all data protocols

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NetApp RAID-DP Data Protection

A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Must be Available
RAID10

Current Disk Drives have more physical imperfections/errors and are less reliable RAID-DP Time to rebuild increase with disk size RAID5 does not provide enough Data Protection RAID10 doubles the cost of Protects against double disk failure Data Protection
40% lower cost than RAID10!

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

FlexVol

App App App

Aggregate

App

C ap ac

Deduplication Thin Provisioning Policy Based Space Management Quality of Service Backup / Recovery Data Replication

ity

Available IOPs (work I can do)

Aggregate:
Efficient resource utilization Capacity and IOPs are pooled
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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

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%

Application Agnostic
Primary Storage Backup Data Archival Data

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

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VMware: An Opportunity for Deduplication

Each Virtual Desktop stores the same data repeatedly:
OS software, patches, software drivers, application data
VI3 Server

.VMDK

.VMDK

.VMDK

.VMDK

Data Store A

.VMDK

.VMDK

.VMDK

.VMDK

RAID Layer Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays

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Shrink VMware Storage Footprint

NetApp deduplication removes the redundant blocks

All copies still appear intact to the ESX server

VI3 Server

.VMDK

.VMDK

.VMDK

.VMDK

Data Store A

.VMDK

Duplicate Data Is Eliminated

FlexVol NetApp FAS System

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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
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NetApp Multiprotocol Support Diagram

Simultaneously Server Both VDI Architecture & End User Data
VMDK VMDK VMDK LUN VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore A VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore B

FlexVol A
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore D

CIFS File Shares Store User Profiles & Data De-Dupe w/ A-SIS
FlexVol B

VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore C

VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore E

NetApp FAS System

VI3 Server

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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
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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 VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK

500 GBs of Storage 500 GBs of Storage

500 GBs of Storage 500 GBs of Storage

Traditional Storage Array 500 GB DataStore

VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK

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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 500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK

Gold Master DataStore 500 GBs Clone A 0 GB Clone B 0 GB Clone C 0 GB NetApp FAS System 500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

500 GB DataStore
VMDK VMDK VMDK

Simplest, fast, and most economical Virtual Machine deployment option

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NetApp FlexClone Mass Provisioning

Process Summary
Step 1: Build Gold Image Virtual Machine Create Datastore Create Virtual Machine (OS - Apps Sysprep) Create base snapshot of Datastore

Step 2: Build Gold Image Datastore FlexClone and attach Datastore Fill Datastore by VM cloning Gold Image Virtual Machine De-duplicate redundant data with A-SIS

Step 3: Mass Deploy Virtual Machines FlexClone & attach clones of Gold Image Datastore Register and start VMs. All are unique and auto join Active Directory 1000s of VMs deployed in minutes at the storage cost of a single VM

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NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning

Begin by Building Template of the VM to Deploy
VMDK

Datastore A Datastore A

FlexVol

Virtual Machine Template (VMX) V-Disk 0

NetApp FAS System

VI3 Server

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NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning

Use VMwares Cloning to Fill the Datastore with VMs
VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

FlexVol

Virtual Machine Template (VMX) V-Disk 0

NetApp FAS System

VI3 Server

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NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning

FlexClone the Volume and Mount the Cloned Datastore
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

FlexVol

NetApp FAS System

VI3 Server

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NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning

Continue to Build out Datastores with FlexClone
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

FlexVol
Datastore C
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore C

NetApp FAS System

VI3 Server

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NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning

and Continue
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

FlexVol
Datastore C
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore C Datastore D

Datastore D

NetApp FAS System

VI3 Server

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NetApp FlexClone Storage Provisioning

Deploy VMs while not utilizing any additional storage capacity
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore A

Datastore B

FlexVol
Datastore C
VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore C Datastore D

Datastore D

VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore E Datastore E

NetApp FAS System

VI3 Server

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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?

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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

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NetApp SnapMirror Replication For VDI Backup and Business Continuance

VDI Users

Primary VI3 DataCenter

Secondary VI3 SnapMirror Replication DataCenter

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NetApp SnapMirror Replication For VDI Backup and Business Continuance

VDI Users

Primary VI3 DataCenter

Secondary VI3 DataCenter

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The Advantages of Deploying VMwares VDI With NetApp Storage Virtualization

RAID-DP
RAID10 data Protection and Performance at the Cost

Native Multiprotocol Support

FCP, iSCSI, and NFS for VI3 Connectivity CIFS for storing VDI user profiles and documents

A-SIS De-duplication
Reduces storage requirements by 90%

SnapMirror

FlexClone
Instantaneous zero cost storage provisioning
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Block level replication technology for de-duplicated data Business Continuance in minutes
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Summary
NetApp Value Proposition for Vmware
Extending asset optimization through storage virtualization Accelerating deployment Tackling the challenge of backup / recovery Simplifying site recovery
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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) Virtual Partitioning of storage resources Advanced RAID Thin Provisioning Data De-duplication Virtual Partitioning of storage resources Dynamic Storage Resource management Rapid provisioning of storage pools Policy based space management Space efficient backups of virtual machine files and data Rapid recovery of virtual machine files and data Architecture / transport independent Replication and site failover at multiple levels of granularity
Physical Storage FlexVol Volumes

Optimized Capacity

Virtual Machines
Physical x86 Servers

Optimized Performance Optimized Provisioning Superior backup and restore capabilities Flexible Data Replication

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Thank you

Go further, faster
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