1. NexentaVSA for View
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2. NexentaVSA for View
NexentaVSA for View (NV4V) is a software solution that combines
Nexenta's 3rd generation NAS/SAN storage appliance with a powerful VDI
deployment/management server. NV4V is designed to inter-operate
seamlessly with VMware vCenter and View servers.
The product is bundled into two virtual machines (OVF images).
NV4V is designed from ground up to absorb and hide the complexity of
deploying and managing virtual desktop datacenters. The product provides
fully automated, GUI-driven VDI provisioning, re-calibration of existing
desktop pools, I/O acceleration, performance graphics and analytics, built-in
snapshots, and replication. It is a massively scalable, turn-key VDI solution.
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3. NexentaVSA for View
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4. NexentaVSA for View
Management Infrastructure
 Customizable Desktop Deployment Profiles
 Each deployment profile is automatically saved and can be modified and reused
 Scheduled Task Execution
 With intervals ranging from seconds, to minutes, hours, days, weeks and
months
 Snapshots and backups can be scheduled to run periodically, desktop pool re-
calibration can be scheduled to run at a later time
 Performance Graphs for ESXi Clusters and Hosts
 CPU and Memory usage
 ZFS and NFS read/write IOps, ARC and L2ARC size
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Reconfigure & Recompose
 Reconfigure any of the NV4V deployed desktop pools
based on your needs and requirements
 VMware View Recompose transparently upgrades the desktop pool
by distributing the golden image to the linked clones
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 Reconfigure:
 Desktop pool
settings
 NexentaStor VSA
parameters
 Resources for NS
VSAs, desktops,
and resource
pools
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 Recompose:
 Supported only
for linked clones
 Re-deploys
desktop pool
from a specific
snapshot
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New Deployment Options
 Advanced storage options:
 HDD and SSD size ranges
 Read/write optimized drives selection
 SSD-only storage
 Network:
 Automated creation of port groups and vSwitches
 Profiles:
 RAID selection for the data volume
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VAAI NAS
 NV4V integrates VMware NAS VAAI plugin designed to interoperate with
NexentaStor and further accelerate deployment of external appliances.
 VAAI NAS speeds up certain operations on the desktop images located on
the NFS mount
 The plug-in effectively offloads network-intensive NFS operations
 2x faster to deploy 200 desktops over a 10G NFS network
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VAAI NAS
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Local Snapshots
 Unlimited – the number of the local snapshots of the virtual desktops is only
limited by storage capacity
 Immediate – instant live snapshotting of all desktops in a desktop pool
 Non-disruptive – does not affect user performance, no extra load on the system
 Revertible – restore a single desktop or an entire desktop pool from any
snapshot
 Schedulable – with intervals ranging from seconds, to minutes, to hours, days,
weeks and months
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Backup and Restore
 Backup – an entire desktop pool to a remote NexentaStor Appliance
 Restore – a single desktop or an entire desktop pool from any ZFS
snapshot at the destination
 Scheduled backup – with intervals ranging from seconds, to minutes,
to hours, days, weeks and months
 Safe - keep extra copies of the desktop infrastructure for the disaster
recovery
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Unlimited Scalability
 Support multiple VMware View Connection Servers and vCenter servers
 Expand any given ESXi cluster by adding additional ESXi hosts, then
deploy them with more virtual desktops; all on the fly
 Multi-tenancy - deploy multiple VDI pools on a single server or cluster.
 Local storage and local ESXi CPU/memory resources => no single-server
bottleneck
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Calibration
 Automatically increase or reduce the number of desktops in a given range,
for a user-specified performance (IOPS) target
 Improve NexentaStor VSA performance with unused resources
 Recalibrate VSA’s CPU and/or memory resources, for a user-specified
performance (IOPS) target
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Replicated HA
Replicated High Availability (RHA) service periodically and incrementally replicates all desktop pools
in a given ESXi Cluster. Frequency of RHA backups can be selected based on your recovery point
objectives (RPO).
 Manual failover / failback of an entire ESXi Cluster or an individual ESXi host(s) to a remote
NexentaStor appliance
 Failover operation - the replicated desktops run from a replication destination (remote
NexentaStor )
 Failback is the reverse operation – that returns the desktop pool to the original storage
 Use RHA failover to perform maintenance operations on the ESXi hosts, e.g.: replace faulted
disks
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Disk Replacement
Automatically redeploys new (replacement) disk(s) into existing desktop
infrastructure, including:
 Detection of a faulted disk
 Automatic creation of VMDKs on a replacement disk
 RAID rebuilding (aka, resilvering)
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Aura Graph
NV4V allows to zoom-in to
the desktop level, for
performance management.
The Aura Graph shows
IOPS and bandwidth
distribution for all of the
desktops in a pool.
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External Storage
NV4V supports virtual (VSA based) and external (bare metal
based) storage, multiple automated storage deployment options (including
all-flash). External storage can either be Nexenta’s own storage appliance or
a 3rd party NAS. For local storage the product automatically provisions and
deploys NexentaStors as VSAs – one Virtual Storage Appliance per VMware
ESXi host per pool of virtual desktop.
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External NexentaStor Appliance
 Bare metal based storage for a desktop pool
 Can be used to store remote backups for any
number of desktop pools for ESXi clusters
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Conclusion
NexentaVSA for View bundles VDI management appliance and enterprise-
grade storage appliance, and provides for rapid VDI provisioning, local ZFS-based
snapshots and integrated remote replication, replicated HA (RHA), resource and
storage re-calibration to further optimize performance, I/O acceleration, performance
monitoring and graphics - both hypervisor view and storage appliance view, DTrace
based analytics, and more.
NV4V is tightly integrated with VMware vSphere 5.1 and supports all
VMware View 5.1 features. Virtual desktop options include Microsoft Windows XP,
Vista, 7 and 8.
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21. THANK YOU
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