Enterprise VDI Best Practices (with Nutanix) Olaf Boecker, Senior Systems Engineer, Nutanix

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1 Enterprise VDI Best Practices (with Nutanix) Olaf Boecker, Senior Systems Engineer, #nexttour

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3 Agenda Nutanix Files & EUC Optimizing Windows 10 Win10 semi-annual releases & impacts Security patch impacts EUC & DR GPU why, when and how Block/Pod scale CPU strategy Image management Sizing & assessment EUC & Multi datacenter

4 Nutanix Files and VDI Home Directories and User Profiles Home Directory Home Directories contain user data such as photos, music, text files Linchpin of EUC deployments Top Requirements Capacity Performance Management #Users x Quota/user e.g. 30GB/user x 2000 users = 60TB usable Low to Moderate Intermittent access, some bursts, a lot of inactivity User quotas Snapshots Backup DR

5 Nutanix Files and VDI Departmental Shares ABC Chemicals FileCloud Account HR Shared file storage for working groups such as Engineering, Marketing, Sales Previously on-prem (Netapp, EMC) or cloud (Dropbox, Google Drive) Marketing Sales Top Requirements Engineering Capacity Performance Management 10 s 100 s TB Moderate Higher than home directories User quotas Snapshots Backup DR

6 Nutanix Files and VDI Go One Step Further for EUC Deployments User Profiles/ Home Directory Departmental Shares Key Use Cases where NAS is used ABC Chemicals FileCloud Account HR Marketing EUC Sales Engineering Nutanix Files Supports Windows-oriented use cases Eliminate the Standalone NAS Silo for your EUC Deployments!

7 What does Nutanix Files bring for EUC Deployments Eliminate infrastructure silos with a single platform for user-files and application/desktops Simple end to end control for the virtualization administrators from a single management pane (Prism) Integrated solution with AD, user/share quotas and Windows previous version support Rich Enterprise Storage features including HA, DR and capacity reduction

8 What does Nutanix Files bring for EUC Solutions General General File Storage Primary NAS Storage Departmental Shares Home Shares User Persona Storage Redirected Folders Profiles Citrix App Layering Elastic Layers User Layers Profile Management Profile Store Definitions Store Provisioning Services vdisk Store ShareFile StorageZone Storage VMware App Volumes VHD In-Guest Storage User Environment Manager Configuration Share User Data Share

9 VDI & Windows 10

10 Optimizing the Windows 10 Image Disable Items Remove Items Change Items Services Windows updates Hyper-V services XBox services Windows Defender Or manage updates and scheduled scans Scheduled tasks Disk optimizations Scheduled scans Memory Diagnostics GPU Hardware acceleration Windows store Apps Consumer apps OneDrive System-wide settings Power plan - Set to high performance Default user profile Optimize for first login Local Policies Registry settings

11 Optimization Guides and Tools Guides Windows 10 Optimization Guide from Citrix Windows 10 Guide from VMware Tools Citrix Optimizer VMware OS Optimization tool Desktop Virtualisation BPA

12 Citrix VDA Installation Optimize Performance User Density -40% Citrix "Optimize Performance" Fully optimized

13 Login VSI Simulate Realistic Work Loads Predict the performance impact of necessary updates and upgrades Find hidden performance problems Predict capacity changes [Webinar] Citrix on Nutanix AHV Validated by Login VSI

14 Impact on user density and user experience

15 Windows 10 as a Service

16 Windows 10 releases: Impact on user density VSIMax higher is better VSIMax 10% 10% 15-20% Insider Hypervisor X AHV

17 Windows 10 releases: Impact on user experience VSIBase lower is better VSIBase Insider Hypervisor X AHV

18 Windows or higher on AHV Hyper-V enlightenments: An optimization to a guest operating system to make it aware of VM environments and tune its behavior for VMs. A para-virtualization approach to reduce virtualization overhead Guest is aware of virtualization and guest change is required Initially designed by Microsoft on Hyper-V + Windows Some of the enlightenments has been implemented in KVM Windows or higher SyNIC timers support in AHV ENG LTS: AOS or higher with AHV or higher LTS: AOS or higher with AHV or higher STS: AOS or higher with AHV or higher STS: AOS or higher with AHV or higher

19 Office 2016 compared to Office 2019 VSIMax higher is better VSIBase lower is better 100% 100% 102% 92% VSIMax 1709 Office Office 2019 VSIBase

20 Impact of Spectre/Meltdown/ForeShadow (L1TF)

21 Impact of Spectre/Meltdown/ForeShadow (L1TF) VSIMax higher is better 100% 93% 68% S/M disabled S/M protected L1TF protected

22 Impact of Spectre/Meltdown/ForeShadow (L1TF) VSIBase lower is better 112% 100% 104% S/M disabled S/M protected L1TF protected

23 Windows 10 summary 1. Optimize image 2. Benchmark changes: W10 releases, Office version, (security) patches 3. Run Windows 10 on AHV

24 GPU Why, When, and How Why

25 GPU Why, When, and How Why

26 GPU Why, When, and How When Accelerate Desktop and Application Virtualization Virtualization for Engineering and Design Departments Target organizations that are already using virtual desktops today Leverage Windows 10 upgrades to introduce graphics acceleration for general workloads Show how graphics acceleration can help spread virtualization across the organization VDI Upgrades Supports the most demanding engineering and design applications Full workstation performance delivered on any device anywhere Improved management and security for organizations that traditionally have required physical infrastructure Land and Expand

27 GPU Why, When, and How How NVIDIA GRID Virtual PC NVIDIA GRID Virtual Apps NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation

28 GPU Why, When, and How How PC Users Workstation Users NVIDIA GRID Virtual Applications (vapps) For organizations deploying CTXS XenApp or other RDSH solutions. Designed to deliver Windows applications at full performance. NVIDIA GRID Virtual PC (vpc) For users who want a virtual desktop but need great user experience leveraging PC Windows applications, browsers, high definition video. NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vdws) For users who want to be able to use remote professional graphics applications with full performance on any device anywhere.

29 VDI Sizing Rules and Guidelines How to collect Physical - Liquidware, Lakeside, perfmon, Nutanix Collector Virtual - What data points to collect? Memory (Usage/Allocated) CPU usage in MHz (Peak/Average) GPU requirements Disk capacity Windows & Office versions Application list What can effect your sizing's? Windows 7 vs 10? Office versions Spectre & Meltdown, L1TF Memory configs & memory speed

30 CPU Choices What s better, more cores or speed? Cost Single threaded apps CPU Per socket Per node (Dual) Max User CPU (2 vcpu) Density (1GHz/user) 8c / 3.2GHz 25.6 GHz 51.2 GHz 6.4 GHz 51 users 12c / 2.2GHz 26.4 GHz 52.8 GHz 4.4 GHz 52 users 14c / 2.4GHz 33.6 GHz 67.2 GHz 4.8 GHz 67 users 14c / 2.6GHz 36.4 GHz 72.8 GHz 5.2 GHz 72 users 18c / 2.1GHz 37.8 GHz 75.6 GHz 4.2 GHz 75 users

31 Understanding Use Cases What is a use case? Groups of users with similar requirements Why does it matter for infrastructure sizing? Identify desktop resource requirements (CPU, Memory, I/O, Capacity) OS requirements Applications and usage Persistent vs. non-persistent GPU Why important? More accurate sizing and model selection

32 Cluster Size Decision Requirements Reduced management vs failure domains Use cases (Sizing, impact, GPU, etc.) Best practices not larger than 2,000 users in cluster or vcenter New QA limit is 4K Maintenance windows Hypervisor patching 15 min per host 16 Node Cluster 32 Node Cluster ESXi Host 1 ESXi Host 2 ESXi Host 16 ESXi Host 1 ESXi Host 2 ESXi Host 32 4 hours 8 hours

33 Pod & Block Architecture - 25,000 Users Connection Connection Servers Servers Horizon View Pod 1 (10K Users) SQL SQL Composer Netscalers Load Balancers Connection Connection Servers Servers Horizon View Pod 2 (10K Users) SQL SQL Composer Netscalers Load Balancers Horizon View Pod 3 (10K Users) Building Block 1 Building Block 2 Building Block 3 Building Block 4 Building Block 5 Building Block 6 Building Block 7 Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users vcenter vcenter vcenter vcenter vcenter vcenter vcenter ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster Building Block 8 Building Block 9 Building Block 10 Building Block 11 Building Block 12 Building Block 13 Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 2,000 users Desktop Pool 1,000 users vcenter vcenter vcenter vcenter vcenter vcenter ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster ESXi Cluster

34 Disaster Recovery What can be replicated Image templates Persistent VMs Infrastructure VMs File Services AFS App Volumes Layers Writable Layers Define your requirements What/Who need protection - Full vs Partial Base on SLA s - Avoid over architecting - Reduce complexity & costs

35 Disaster Recovery

36 Image Workload Freedom of Choice on Nutanix Hypervisor Flexibility Broker Flexibility Provisioning Flexibility Citrix Hypervisor Microsoft Hyper-V Nutanix AHV VMware ESXi Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops ESXi Hyper-V Nutanix AHV Citrix Hypervisor Microsoft RDS Hyper-V VMware Horizon ESXi Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops Full Clones Provisioning Services Machine Creation Services Microsoft RDS Full Clones Pooled VDI VMware Horizon Full Clones Linked Clones Instant Clones

37 Image Management Nutanix Shadow Clones Clone Snapshot Master vdisk Diff Diff Shadow Clone Diff Diff Shadow Clone Diff Diff ID ID ID ID ID ID Hypervisor node local storage Hypervisor node local storage Distributed storage Hypervisor node local storage Shadow Clones

38 Image Management Using Nutanix Non-Persistent Machine Creation Services Linked Clones Instant Clones FRA HAM NTNX Protection Domain NTNX Cluster NY Persistent Full Clones MUC NTNX Cluster LA

39 Image Management Using Nutanix Persistent Full Clones FRA HAM NTNX Protection Domain NTNX Cluster NY MUC NTNX Cluster LA

40 Image Management When Not Using Nutanix Non-Persistent Provisioning Services FRA HAM PVS Cluster 8 copies: 7 local copies, and 1 across the wire MUC PVS Cluster

41 Image Management When Using Nutanix Non-Persistent Provisioning Services FRA HAM PVS Cluster NTNX FILES 2 copies: 1 local copy, and 1 across the wire MUC NTNX FILES

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