Webinar: Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash Problems
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The document is a promotional overview of a webinar discussing strategies for achieving success in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) without the challenges associated with all-flash storage solutions. It highlights issues such as the cost per desktop, storage efficiency, and the performance gap in existing storage technologies. The webinar features experts from Storage Switzerland and Cloudistics, who aim to present alternatives to traditional all-flash arrays and offer solutions for optimizing storage infrastructure.
Webinar: Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash Problems
- 1. On Demand Webinar: Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash Problems Join us as we explain: 1. How AFA Vendors try to Overcome the Cost per Desktop Challenge 2. How AFAs Lead to a more Fragmented Storage Architecture 3. How to Introduce Storage Sanity into the VDI Infrastructure For audio playback and Q&A go to: http://bit.ly/GetVDISuccess
- 2. Our Speakers George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US. Speaker bio
- 3. ● 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 Who Is Storage Switzerland?
- 4. Our Speakers Todd Fredrick CRO & Founder of Cloudistics Todd is a software executive with over 25 years of experience in building and growing software companies. Using his extensive sales and operational experience, Todd has developed an innovative, data-driven sales and marketing methodology to create go-to-market strategies that generate awareness and drive revenue. These techniques produce significant and consistent revenue and are proven to be highly scalable. As one of the founders of AppAssure, Todd grew the company’s revenue from zero to $25 million in four years, making AppAssure the fastest-growing backup company worldwide, as reported by INC Magazine. Todd has also held executive leadership positions at Dell, Symantec, Veritas, Precise, and WQuinn. He holds an MS in Information Management from Marymount University and a BS in Marketing from Virginia Tech.
- 5. 4 2015 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved WHO WE ARE Mission To democratize IT through next-generation virtualization infrastructure products. Founders Founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs with 30+ years of experience in storage and high performance computing. Headquartered in Reston, VA Vision Create easy to use, application centric infrastructure software that enables businesses of all sizes to deliver services on demand. We build high performance software that enable businesses of all sizes to simplify and optimize their infrastructure
- 6. Polling Question Where Are You On Your VDI Journey? A) Exploring B) In Test Phase C) Initial Production D) Trying to Scale
- 7. Polling Question Where Are You On Your VDI Journey?
- 8. Why VDI • Improve Operational Efficiencies • Improve Organizational Data Security and Protection
- 9. The VDI Challenge • Getting operational and organizational efficiencies without increasing cost per desktop • Providing users a “physical” experience • Requires: High performing and cost optimized storage infrastructure
- 10. The VDI Challenge • Getting operational and organizational efficiencies without increasing cost per desktop • Providing users a “physical” experience • Requires: High performing and cost optimized storage infrastructure • Which Often Leads to an All-Flash Array
- 11. The VDI Challenge • Impact of Cost-Justifying an All-Flash Array: Highly dense virtual desktop to host ratio Creating highly random I/O demand Utilization of data efficiency techniques (clones, thin provisioning) Efficiency creates write heavy workload
- 12. The State Of VDI Storage • Hard Disk meets the cost Requirement but not Performance • Hybrid Systems were tried but failed Overly focused on cost per GB - Flash area was too small VDI not “small - cache” friendly Still required replacement of current storage systems
- 13. The State Of VDI Storage • All-Flash System seen as the only Alternative Cost increases need for high density and high efficiency Despite that, it more than meets the performance expectation
- 14. The State Of VDI Storage • All-Flash System seen as the only Alternative Increases demand for high density and high efficiency Despite that it more than meets the performance expectation • BUT… Still more expensive despite efficiency Creates a very dense desktop to host ratio (large failure domain)
- 15. An Alternative Is Needed • Prior Attempts HDD and Hybrid too focused on cost per GB All-Flash too focused on performance • A Better Compromise - Performance Appliance Large flash tier TBs instead of GBs Compliment existing storage resources instead of replace Lowest $ per GB is the storage you already own Continue to use current, well-vetted data protection features
- 16. TURBINE Application Acceleration Appliance Accelerate Your Applications / Accelerate Your Storage / Accelerate Your Business
- 17. Increased Application Provisioning Increased Storage Provisioning Forced to create numerous storage pools and arrays Constant application tuning to squeeze out every last ounce of performance 2016 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved THE STORAGE PERFORMANCE GAP The Storage Performance GapStorage Performance Falls Behind CPU and Storage Capacity Growth CPU performance is consistently growing along with storage capacity, but IOPS/spindle remain the same Randomization of Virtual Workloads Server virtualization has compounded the problem— random I/O’s of virtual apps have increased causing poor storage performance
- 18. 2015 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved TURBINE LOGICAL VIEW
- 19. 2016 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved Bolt-On Performance • One appliance supports any combination of hypervisors and storage vendors • Pick and choose applications you want to accelerate DISRUPTIVELY NON-DISRUPTIVE No Complex Data Migrations • No data migrations or software installations Up and Running in Under an Hour • Install Hardware • Configure IP Settings • Select LUNS to Accelerate • Active / Passive set up ensures full fault tolerance • Auto failover and failback Fully Redundant and Highly Available HYPERVISORS APPLICATIONS SAN STORAGE
- 20. 2016 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved TURBINE PHYSICAL VIEW
- 21. 2016 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved ACCELERATED PERFORMANCE Write-back Cache • Full-fidelity Write-Back support satisfies writes immediately after being written to the redundant flash. TBs not GBs • Up to 8TB of Cache vs. GBs found in other solutions • Capacity to support growth of your entire infrastructure Exponential Acceleration • Delivers 300k Write IOPS and 550k Read IOPS @ 4k • 40Gbs Bandwidth Throughput • Increased IOPS and reduced latency enables you to run 2-3x more applications per hypervisor All-Flash Performance
- 22. 2016 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved I/O Reduction • De-duplicates redundant I/Os to boost performance of your SAN SMART SOFTWARE Write Combining/Coalescing Technology • Intelligently combines random I/O into sequential I/O and writes in place to the SAN Integrated Online Support • Built in Real-Time Chat • Built in Support Mode for remote diagnostics Sequential Bypass • Turbine preserve cache capacity for random I/O by automatically bypassing large sequential writes directly to the SAN Optimizing Your Existing SAN
- 23. 2016 Cloudistics Inc. All Rights Reserved Turbine CLOSES STORAGE GAP ACCELERATES APPLICATIONS OPTIMIZES STORAGE
- 24. 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 Cloudistics http://www.cloudistics.com Cloudistics on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cloudistics Cloudistics on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cloudistics
- 25. Thanks for viewing our SlideShare of: Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash Problems For Complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On-Demand Version at http://bit.ly/GetVDISuccess