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Cisco Knowledge Network - Data Center Desktop as a Service Phil Lowden (plowden@cisco. com) Dec 12, 2017

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (Daa. S) Agenda VDI Industry Cisco Daa. S/VDI Daa. S CVD Overview Reference Architecture Wrap-Up Quick Overview Unified Compute System, Hyper. Flex Citrix, VMWare 5000 Seat Flex. Pod with Horizon on B 200 M 5 Parting thoughts, Q&A © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Benefits of the Digital Workplace 1 Greater compliance and more protection for intellectual property 2 Lower infrastructure costs 3 Allows IT to focus on core business 4 Simpler lifecycle management 5 Designed for mobile 6 Easier and more effective collaboration © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

TCO for Desktop and App Virtualization Key Performance Improvements Realized from Customers Who Deployed Cisco’s Desktop and Application Virtualization Solution Source: IDC, Document #258399 Reduction of total cost of computing: 40% © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Reduction in user’s lost time: 53% Reduction in staff time needed for keeping the lights on: 14%

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (Daa. S) Agenda VDI Industry Cisco Daa. S/VDI Daa. S CVD Overview Reference Architecture Wrap-Up Quick Overview Unified Compute System, Hyper. Flex Citrix, VMWare 5000 Seat Flex. Pod with Horizon on B 200 M 5 Parting thoughts, Q&A © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

UCS GPU Portfolio with M 5 Servers UCS Integrated for accelerated VDI Cloud VDI Available UCS M 6 Blade GPU For M 4 only - General Purpose, Enterprise Class NVIDIA GPU for Remote Knowledge Workers, Task Workers and Designers Available UCSM 3. 1. 3 Aug 2017 UCS P 6 Blade GPU For M 5 Blades – Doubles user density for Remote Knowledge Workers, Task Workers and Designers © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential UCS NVIDIA M 60 For M 4 only - Ultimate choice for Remote Engineering Workstations and Application Delivery via the Cloud UCS NVIDIA M 10 For M 4 and M 5 Servers. Accelerated Remote Desktop, Maximum User Density per Server UCS AMD 7150 x 2 For M 4 and M 5 Servers based on SRIOV Accelerated Remote Desktop, Engineering workstation

• GPUs improve VDI user experience • Industry-leading GPU density • Cisco UCS® B 200 M 5 Blade Server supports 2 GPUs • Leading competitors support 1 • Cisco UCS B 480 M 5 Blade Server supports 4 GPUs Accelerate VDI projects • Other vendors don’t support GPUs on 4 -socket blade servers • Cisco UCS C 480 M 5 Rack Server supports 6 GPUs • More users per server, rack unit, and watt reduces both Cap. Ex and Op. Ex © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco Hyper. Flex: What’s New Simplify More New HX M 5 Nodes, 40 Gbps Network, Hyper. Flex Edge for ROBO, All Flash (NVMe) HX Data Platform 2. 6 Innovations in Data Protection, Security, Performance The New Hyper. Flex Connect Management Interface & Intersight Cloud Management HCI Performance for Business Critical Apps Multicloud Services © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco Hyper. Flex Systems VDI Solution Desktop and Application Virtualization Broker Hypervisor Network Layer Cisco Hyper. Flex HX Data Platform © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Hypervisor

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (Daa. S) Agenda VDI Industry Cisco Daa. S/VDI Daa. S CVD Overview Reference Architecture Wrap-Up Quick Overview Unified Compute System, Hyper. Flex Citrix, VMWare 5000 Seat Flex. Pod with Horizon on B 200 M 5 Parting thoughts, Q&A © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Ecosystem Partners for Desktop and App Virtualization • • Comprehensive solutions optimized for SMBs through large enterprises Best of breed capabilities Accelerated ROI for the digital workplace Backed by Cisco and partner reference configurations © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco Validated Designs (CVD) Selected Customer Engagements Gather end-to-end requirements Product Development Thought Leadership Integrated Systematic Approach Integrated solution Incorporate best practices Tested and Validated For consistent delivery by partners System Development Guidelines © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Documentation Customer System Integration End-to-End Validation Unit Design Feature Planning

Desktop-as-a-Service for Service Provider 2000 -Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure https: //www. cisco. com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ ucs_cvds_spdaas_ucs_2 k. pdf Last Updated: April 8, 2015 Citrix Xen. Desktop/Xen. App 7. 5 built on Cisco UCS B 200 -M 3 Blades with EMC VNX 5600 and VMware v. Sphere 5. 5

Cisco Hyper. Flex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users https: //www. cisco. com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXA F 211 b_4 Kseat_Horizon 71. html Last Updated: July 25, 2017 VMWare Horizon 7. 5 built on Cisco UCS B 200 -M 4 Blades with Cisco Hyper. Flex AF and VMware v. Sphere 6. 0 u 3

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (Daa. S) Agenda VDI Industry Cisco Daa. S/VDI Daa. S CVD Overview Reference Architecture Wrap-Up Quick Overview Unified Compute System, Hyper. Flex Citrix, VMWare 5000 Seat Flex. Pod with Horizon on B 200 M 5 Parting thoughts, Q&A © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco UCS, Net. App AFF A 300 Storage System and VMware Horizon 5000 Seat Mixed Workload Very Large Scale VMware Horizon Deployment on Flex. Pod

Introduction to the 5000 User Solution • Key benefits of Cisco UCS Desktop Virtualization • Solution Overview and Design Goals • Cisco UCS Component Overview • Net. App Storage Component Overview • Skylake 6140 processor • Solution Architecture • View Deployment methods • Test Case Scenarios • Performance Results • Questions and Answers • Learn More • © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

5000 Mixed User Flex. Pod Solution Cisco UCS 6300 3 rd Gen FIs Net. App AFF A 300 Storage System VMware Horizon 7. 3 RDS Hosted Sessions (RDSH) Instant Clone VDI Virtual Machines (VDI) Full Clone VDI Virtual Machines (VDI) 5000 Users Mixed Workload © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Key Benefits of Flex. Pod for Desktop Virtualization ARCHITECTURE SCALABILITY BALANCED SYSTEM SIMPLICITY VALIDATED DESIGNS Simple, Resilient Architecture for Deploying Desktop Virtualization Linear Scalability and Performance from 100’s to 1000’s of Desktops Without a Change in Architecture Providing the Right Balance of Memory, I/O, CPU and Storage Is the Key to Cost-Effective Scalability Rapid Provisioning with Cisco UCS Manager, Policy based Service Profiles for Ease of Scale Reducing Risk and Accelerating Deployment Through Validation © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco Switching and Communications Cisco Nexus 9372 PX L 2/3 Switch Hardware Cisco MDS 9148 s 16 Gb FC Storage Switch Cisco UCS 6332 -16 UP 3 rd Gen Fabric Interconnect Cisco UCS VIC 1340 MLOM Cisco UCS B 200 M 5 2304 IO Module © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco UCS B 200 M 5 Blade Server • Designed for a wide range of workloads from web infrastructure to distributed database • World-record performance • Provides enterprise-level capabilities without configuration constraints What’s new for M 5: • Higher performance CPUs with up to 28 cores/socket (one or two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (aka Purley Skylake) • Support for 3 D XPoint memory (with post-FCS industry wide release) • Bootable M. 2 (SATA at FCS; NVMe post-FCS) flash options • Dual GPU support • 80 Gbps I/O • 24 DIMMs slots © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Net. App AFF A 300 Storage System • 2 x storage controllers- Active/Active High Availability pair (up to 12 for FC, 24 for NAS) • DS 224 c Disk chassis (up to 8) • 24 x 3. 8 TB SSD- 65 TB usable / 130 TB effective (2: 1 efficiency) _______________ • • • AFF A 300 Front Image AFF A 300 Rear Image Up to 5 PB usable / HA pair with 16 TB drives Over 300 K IOPs per HA pair – 5 rack units ONTAP 9. 1 • Supports 6 HA pairs per SAN cluster • Up to 1. 8 M IOPs and over 30 PB capacity • Mix & match controllers and drives in cluster © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential AFF A 300 Disk Shelf (DS 224 C)

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Skylake 6140 Processors CPU Cores : 36 CPUs x 2. 294 GHz Processor Type : Intel Xeon Gold 6140 CPU @ 2. 30 GHz Processor per sockets : 2 Cores per socket : 18 Logical Processors : 72 © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Master Image Configuration Server 2016 RDSH (Remote Desktop Server Sessions) Server Roles & Windows 10 64 Bit OS VDI Virtual Desktops (Non-Persistent and Persistent Virtual Desktops) © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Windows Master Image Configuration for End User Desktop deployment Server 2016 Configuration for RDSH Server Roles • 6 v. CPU • 24 GB RAM • 40 GB Hard Disk Additional Software • Microsoft office 2016 • Login VSI 4. 1. 25. 6 (knowledge worker workload bench mark mode) © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Windows 10 64 Bit OS configuration for VDI Instant Clone pool Windows 10 64 Bit OS configuration for VDI Full Clone pool • 2 v. CPU • 2 GB RAM (memory allocated) • 32 GB Hard Disk Additional Software • Microsoft office 2016 • Login VSI 4. 1. 25. 6 (knowledge worker workload bench mark mode) Additional Software • Microsoft office 2016 • Login VSI 4. 1. 25. 6 (knowledge worker workload bench mark mode)

VMware Horizon View Deployment Methods • VMware Horizon View Composer based cloning (non persistent (Linked Clone) & persistent desktops/RDSH Server Sessions) • VMware Horizon View Instant cloning (Non-Persistent VDI desktops/RDSH Server Sessions) • View Horizon Composer based full virtual machine cloning (persistent VDI desktops) Basic flow diagram of how Composer VM & Instant Clone VM is created. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

View Composer Clone: The replica or the VM has to be copied initially with VAAI (v. Storage API for Array Integration) may Might generate more IOPS during process and continue to maintain same level of IOPs until deployment is complete. Full Clone A full clone is an independent copy of a virtual machine that shares nothing with the parent virtual machine after the cloning operation. Ongoing operation of a full clone is entirely separate from the parent virtual machine Instant Clone: • Instant clone deployment might spike CPU during the initial stage of the replica cloning and generate more IOPs. Replica will be cloned without VAAI integration. • Overall initial clone generate less IOPS for completing the deployment • Less Deployment times with instant clones © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential • VMs ready for use instantly. Composer Clones View Composer is a feature of Horizon with View which allows administrators to easily manage pools of similar desktops by creating golden master or parent images that share a common virtual disk. All cloned desktops linked to a parent image can be patched or updated through View Administrator by simply updating the single master image, without affecting users’ settings, data, or applications. Instant Clones • The provisioning of instant clones is significantly faster than View Composer linked clones. • Instant clones are always created in a powered-on state, ready for users to connect to. Guest customization and joining the Active Directory domain are completed as part of the initial power-on workflow. § When a user logs out, the desktop VM is deleted. New clones are created according to the provisioning policy, which can be on-demand or up-front. • With the push-image operation, you can re-create the pool from any snapshot of any parent VM. You can use a push image to roll out operating system and application patches. • When clones are created, View selects a datastore to achieve the best distribution of the clones across the datastores. • No manual rebalancing is necessary. View storage accelerator is automatically enabled. • Transparent page sharing is automatically enable

VMware Horizon View 5000 User Mixed Scale Flexpod Test Performance • • 1680 Windows 2016 R 2 RDS Hosted Server Sessions 3320 Windows 10, 64 -bit non - persistent & Persistent Virtual Desktops VMware Horizon 7 provisioned RDSH Server Sessions & VDI nonpersistent Desktops Total 25 B 200 M 5 servers hosting 5000 Mixed Users All 3 cluster have been configured with N+1 No VSI MAX reached Baseline 604 mil sec (sub second response time) Excellent End-user experience © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 29

CVD Url: To be published soon http: //www. cisco. com/go/vdi-cvd Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution Design Navigator © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco-Powered Desktop as a Service (Daa. S) Agenda VDI Industry Cisco Daa. S/VDI Daa. S CVD Overview Reference Architecture Wrap-Up Quick Overview Unified Compute System, Hyper. Flex Citrix, VMWare 5000 Seat Flex. Pod with Horizon on B 200 M 5 Parting thoughts, Q&A © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cloud Provider Success Tim Burke, President and Chief Executive Officer © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Rick Chapman, Co-Founder and CTO, Netelligent