Software Defined Storage for VDI
Neil Stobart – EMEA SE Director
Market Trends – Data Explosion & Shrinking Budgets
Workloads, IT Budgets and Trends
Source: 2014 – Company, Gartner, IDC and Wall Street research.
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Nexenta Company Timeline
2014
2013
5,000 customer
deployments
2012
2008
400 PB Under
Management
NexentaStor 3.0
1st
2005
Sun Microsystems
open sources ZFS
POs from Stanford
NexentaStor 1.0
Scale-up unified block
& file services on any
x86 hardware
First Cinder
integration with
OpenStack Essex
10 patents in play
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NexentaStor 3.1
Dell and SuperMicro
Reference
Architectures
NexentaConnect
SDS for VDI
1st patent
20 in play
Tarkan Maner
joins as CEO
900 PB Under
Management
NexentaStor 4.x
Enterprise class SDS
NexentaConnect
Horizon & XenDesktop
On ESX
NexentaEdge 1.0
Scale-out object
NexentaFusion 1.0
Unified analytics and
orchestration
3 patents
30 in play
Software-Based or Software-Defined?
Software Based
Software Defined
Stack Specific
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All storage hardware vendors are software based
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Software-Based is about technology – good for vendors
– Software used to justify high margins on systems built with standard x86 hardware
– Exact same hardware can often be acquired off the shelf
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Software-Defined is about business model – good for customers
– Standardize on software and make x86 hardware vendors compete
– Allows customers to procure storage with server like economics
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Nexenta is the only provider of SDS for all stacks and all workloads
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Comprehensive Software Defined Storage Portfolio
Unified analytics and orchestration
Single pane of glass for entire storage infrastructure
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Storage Services for virtualized infrastructure
VMware Virtual SAN, Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop
* Future
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Scale-up , block and file
Unified Storage
Scale-out object,
block and file storage
Enterprise Apps
Cloud backend and
unstructured data
repositories
OpenStack Swift
Amazon S3
Next Gen Cloud &
Big Data Apps
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VDI Deployment Challenges
Storage Performance considerations
• Need equal or better performance than PC
• Requires low latency to deliver good end user experience
• High Write IOPS due to user profile updates need more resources than high read
requirements
• Boot/login storms necessitate sizing for overall peak performance requirements therefore
need more spindles
High performance storage required to support workload means that storage cost
consideration severely impact decision for VDI deployment
Monitoring
• Storage Calibration – ensuring storage resources are applied for the right desktops
• No insight into performance at the desktop level
Different categories of user require different levels of performance therefore
important to understand when and where additional storage resources are required
to ensure good end user experience
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Thank you