Technical Overview Jack Smith Sr. Solutions Architect
Liquidware Labs Methodology Production Environments Assess Design POCs/Pilots Stratusphere FIT Stratusphere UX Validate Migrate ProfileUnity FlexApp Flex-IO From Pilot To Production 3/24/2015
Fully Leverage LWL Products with Non-Persistent VDI
Assessment & Design Physical Baseline Choose Platform Inventory Apps/OS Use Cases Reclaim Unused
Solution Benefits Ensures success of virtualization project by: Identifying users/groups best suited for virtualization Identifying applications for virtualization Accurately gathering resource requirements Baseline user experience profile for comparison Design infrastructure based on requirements: Actual CPU MHz, RAM, IO, Storage, Network Ensures good performance for virtual users Keep costs low by designing to real requirements Accelerate adoption of virtualization
Monitoring /Validation/Diagnostics Measure User Experience ID Root Cause Issues Prevent Unplanned Downtime Capacity Planning Over Time Manage Host Workloads
Architecture
Connector ID Keys Metrics 1. Hardware Configuration CPU, RAM, Disk, Displays, Resolutions, Printers, USB Devices and BIOS Age 2. Software Inventory: OS, Applications with Size, Services, Device Drivers, Processes 3. Performance Numbers: CPU Queue, Disk Queue, Page Faults, I/O Read/Write Rate, IOPS 4. Resource Utilization Numbers: Usage of CPU MHz & %, RAM (MB & %), Disk (Used/Free), Network BW 5. User Experience Metrics: User Login Delay or Wait Times, Application Launch Times Non-Responding Applications, Failed Network Connections
Virtual Desktop Administration Desktop Network Latency & Conncection Quality SLAs Cloud Multiple Directory Integration & Security Compliance Desktop, User & Application SLAs User Laptop Network AD/LDAP Domain 1 VM Directory 1 (vcenter 1) AD/LDAP Domain 2 Heartbeat & Response Time SLAs Profile Data File Data User Data Soul/mail/APP Application Thin Client VM Directory 2 (vcenter 2) Network Virtualization Layer Visibility & User Correlation Hypervisor Hypervisor Data Center Servers AD, File, Mail, Web, DNS DHCP, APP VMs VMs VMs VMs DESKTOP ADMIN
Proactive Notifications Stratusphere UX can proactively provide alerts via email on over 20 different conditions spanning multiple categories, including: Machine Host Network Storage User Alerting via email and archived reporting provides a proactive context that enables UX to assist problem diagnosis prior to end-user impact
Stratusphere Adaptor for VMware vcops Enhances Single pane of glass Feeds Machine & Application Data Feeds User Experience Data Dashboards with unique LWL time based data points View data by User Groups based on AD Requires: VMware vcenter Operations Manager 5 VMware General SQL Loader PAK Liquidware Labs Stratusphere Adaptor PAK
Views Into Desktop Performance POOLED VALUES INTERACTIVE USER AVERAGES
User Trends Patterns
Migration / Co-Existence Rapid Migrations Track Success Universal Profile Streamline Upgrades Automate Manual Tasks
2014 Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity Reach
V1 Profile Seamlessly Move Between V1 & V2 Profiles V2 Profile ProfileUnity Portability Management
ProfileUnity Top 10 Use Cases: 1. Seamless v1 to v2 to v3 profiles Co-existence, beyond one-way one-time 2. Migration of Profiles and Data seamless onboarding to new desktop 3. Replace Roaming Profiles solving profile portability, granular, faster, dependable 4. Lower costs of delivering VDI lower storage and management costs 5. Make more users compatible with VDI knowledge workers and power users can have the customizations and apps they demand even in VDI 6. Deliver context aware desktop experience printer management, settings, shortcuts, etc. al based on custom filters 7. Disaster Recovery - persona, data, apps restored in seconds to any Windows desktop 8. Ongoing management of the desktop provision settings, configs, reg, lockdown, etc. 9. To deliver follow-me applications by user and department 10. One central user management console -Persona, Applications, Configurations, and central migration settings for any and all Windows desktops
Detailed ProfileUnity Architecture Profile Apps Data AD Groups, Users, Agent Deployment Physical PC/laptop Dynamic Desktop Delivery OS Profile Apps Data Hosted Virtual Pool ProfileUnity Console Profile, Apps, and Data Policies Domain Controllers Active Directory integration and hosted agent Storage SAN/NAS/SMB Existing UNC storage VDI Session Thin Client Tablet w/virtual or RDSH End point device Any Windows Desktop OS Session
Application Layering
Flex-IO Features and Advantages Flex-IO is IOPS acceleration software for non-persistent VDI including both VMware Horizon View and Citrix XenDesktop environments. Instantly add approximately 25,000 or more IOPS per host Reduce latency by up to 75% Standalone virtual appliance leveraging RAM cache Exclusively for non-persistent/stateless VDI environments Licensed per VDI host, less than half the cost of competitors Easy! - Download, Install, & three clicks away from integration Less than 50% of RAM allocation than competitors Compatible VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, Dell vworkspace Management on VMware ESX/ESXi servers
Flex-IO
Flex-IO Technology 0 s and 1 s 1:1 deployment model 2 vcpu s 16 GB of RAM 70 GB of Disk space to start (20 GB OS, 50 GB Data) Baseline Scaling Memory 2 GB for the OS 2 GB per Base image \ replica 256 MB per linked clone Storage 12 GB image is 7 GB on disk 60 MB on disk per linked clone
Flex-IO Performance Before With Flex-IO
Flex-IO Easy integration- Download, Install, and you are 3 clicks away from 25,000 IOPS! Configure
Flex-IO Deploy
Flex-IO Manage
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