Join experts from Storage Switzerland, IBM and Atlantis Computing in this live webinar as they show you how to overcome the four most common obstacles to VDI designs so that users can love their virtual desktops while you dramatically reduce the cost. You will walk away with a strategy to deliver a MacBook Air type of performance at a Chromebook price.

1. Available On Demand
VDI that delivers MacBook Air
performance at Chromebook prices
Design an environment that overcomes
the four obstacles to VDI love:
✓ Performance
✓ Personalization
✓ Operational Efficiency
✓ Cost Effectivness
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go to: http://bit.ly/VDILove
Register and get an exclusive copy of Storage Switzerland’s Paper:
"The Three Ps to a Successful VDI Deployment –
Persistence, Price, Performance”

2. About George Crump
● Founder of Storage Switzerland, and its
lead analyst
● Areas of expertise include performance
optimization and data protection.
● Recognized for his talks, white papers
and chalktalk videos on such current
technology as all-flash arrays, SSDs
and software-defined storage
● He has 25 years of experience
designing storage solutions for data
centers across the US

3. Storage Swiss Background
● Analyst firm focused on
storage, cloud and
virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets
is gained through product
testing and interaction with
end users and suppliers
● The results of this research
can be found in the articles,
videos, webinars, product
analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com

4. About Seth Knox
● VP of Products, Atlantis Computing
● Areas of expertise include storage
performance benchmarking and VDI
cost analysis
● Author of VDI architectures, wrote
chapter of “The New VDI Reality” book
and frequent speaker at industry events
VMworld 2014, PEX and IBM Edge
● He has 14 years of experience in the
security, virtualization an storage
industries

5. Atlantis Background
600,000+ virtual machines globally
650 mission-critical deployments
25+ petabytes of storage in use
The massive amount of storage we have set
free & reclaimed for our customers to date

6. About Rawley Burbridge
● Storage Solution Architect for the IBM
FlashSystem organization
● Expert in desktop and server
virtualization, and architecting storage
solutions
● Author of IBM white paper and best
practice guides and regular speaker at
industry events
● Over 10 years experience in designing
and managing complex virtualization
environments

7. IBM Ranked #1
for Flash Storage(SSA) Market Share, Worldwide based on revenue for 2013
Global market acceptance
#1 with 25% market share
Clear leadership position
44% greater revenue than next
closest competitor*
7 © 2014 IBM Corporation
*Calculations by IBM based on Gartner Report: Market Share
Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays, Worldwide, 2013
278% growth from 2012
82 PB total flash shipped in 2013*

8. Polling Question
Where are you on your VDI Journey?
❏ Investigating
❏ Started but stuggling with adoption
❏ In progress but having performance problems
❏ Project abandoned, looking to reboot
❏ Deployed and trying to scale

9. Polling Question
Where are you on your VDI Journey?

10. Why VDI?
The Big Promise
● Reduce Costs
● Improve Operational Efficiency
● Increase Organizational Security
● Improve End-Point Data Protection

11. The Big Challenge
User Adoption
● Users tend to hate their virtual
desktops
● Can’t customize
● Virtual instance is too slow or
inconsistent

12. The Bigger Challenge
Achieving User Adoption
• Persistence
• Persistent desktops provide
user customization
• Performance
• Flash storage can increase
user performance

13. The Bigger Challenge
Requirements for User Adoption
• Persistence
• Persistent desktops provide
customization
• Performance
• Flash storage increases user
performance
But these impact price
per desktop….

14. The Bigger Challenge
User Adoption = Increased Price
• Persistence
• Increases capacity consumption
• Space Efficiency
• Addresses capacity challenges but
increases write I/O
• Price per Desktop is Critical
• The perfect VDI project delivers
MacBook Air performance at
Chromebook pricing

15. The Biggest Challenge
The Three Ps Have to be Addressed All at Once
Performance
Persistence
Price

16. The Holestic Approach To VDI
More than Just Flash
• More than Flash Alone
• Space efficiency IOPS that could be
better spent on more desktops
• Underlying Software Has
to Improve
• Space efficiency techniques utilized,
local and remote memory storage
needs to improve
• Not Just Any Flash
• With better software full potential of
flash can be tapped

17. IBM & Atlantis VDI Solution
Hypervisor
IBM FlashSystem
5,000 persistent VDI users on 2U of storage
334 Average IOPS/desktop bursting to thousands
$200 total cost per desktop (servers and storage)

18. 5,000 Persistent VDI Configuration
VMware ESXi 5.5
Virtual Desktops
 VMware Horizon 6 VDI Broker
 5,000 Persistent Full Clone Desktops
– 30GB with 21GB in use
 LoginVSI Medium
– LoginVSI Max Not Reached
– Baseline of 1019ms
Networking
IBM G8264 64 port 10GbE TOR
IBM SAN48B-5 FC switch
Storage
IBM FlashSystem 840 (20TB)
Servers
Average Density of 143 per server
 3 x IBM Flex Chassis with
– 5 x222 twin node
– 4 x240 node
– 26 x240 node
– 2 x240 node (management)
Courtesy IBM Corporation – VDI Test Laboratory

19. 5,000 Persistent VDI Benchmark
Scales to 5,000 user
Without degrading performance
User Experience (ms)
Unacceptable
Acceptable
Good
Excellent

20. MacBook Air Performance - PassMark
6X Disk Performance
of a MacBook Air

21. IBM FlashSystem 840 Data Center Optimized
• 2U form factor; minimal footprint for best of breed ROI
• Low power: 625 watts
• Field upgradeable, granular capacity:
2,4,6,8,10,12,16,20,24,32,40,48 TB options
• Reduce installation and management time
with intuitive standardized GUI
• Fully redundant and hot swappable architecture:
flash modules, power supplies, batteries, interfaces, fans, RAID controllers, etc
• Non-disruptive maintenance and updates: concurrent code load, highly serviceable design
• Data-at-rest encryption
• Low latency: 135/90 μs R/W
• Purpose-built, highly parallel design
• Boosts host CPU efficiency and productivity
• 1.1M IOPS
• 8 GB/s bandwidth
- 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel
- 40Gb QDR InfiniBand
- 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- 10Gb iSCSI
Macro
Efficiency
Enterprise
Reliability
MicroLatency™
Extreme
Performance

22. IBM FlashSystem 840: Flash Optimized Arrays
• Hardware-only data path with extremely LOW latency
– Custom FPGA-based data movement decreases latency vs. software
• Distributed out-of-data-path CPU processing
• High Performance (IOPS), High Bandwidth
22 © 2014 IBM Corporation
CPUs (18)
Interface Controller
Management Module
RAID Controller
Flash Modules (12)
FPGA

23. Superior Durability:
Using the Best Flash
23 © 2014 IBM Corporation
10X
3X
Superior Protection: Beyond Disk RAID
Chip/Plane/Die level protection
Self-Recovering
Flash Modules
Avoid system rebuilds
Variable Stripe Sizes
Read Disturb Mitigation
Automatic Read Sweeper
High-Speed Clock Recovery
Protection Within And
Across Flash Modules
Advanced
Engineering =
Less Maintenance
IBM FlashSystem 840: Reliability Ingredients
 SLC Market demand decreasing.
 eMLC data protection techniques
delivering more wear life than what
market demands
 eMLC delivers best Price/Performance

24. Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
3000 persistent
virtual desktops supported by
one FlashSystem
90 percent
data reduction through in-line
deduplication and compression
4x better TCO
than competing all-flash storage
Solution Components
• Citrix XenApp
• Atlantis ILIO
• IBM FlashSystem 840, 820
• IBM SAN Volume Controller
• IBM Flex System ®
Business challenge: Kelsey-Seybold’s existing SAN storage could not support its
virtual desktop infrastructure without slowing down other critical applications and
they needed a scalable solution to handle business growth
The solution: Kelsey-Seybold deployed FlashSystem with Atlantis ILIO software
for in-line compression and deduplication and achieved lower cost per desktop and
higher performance than dedicated VDI solutions from competing flash vendor
“Atlantis ILIO with our existing IBM storage was a much better solution.
I have never seen anything perform faster.”- Bryan McClellan, Systems Architect,
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic

25. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Atlantis
Speaker
seth@atlantiscomputing.com
Twitter: @seth_knox
http://www.atlantiscomputing.com
IBM
Speaker
rburbridge@us.ibm.com
http://www-
03.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
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