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NexentaConnect for
VMware Horizon Datasheet
Cisco and Nexenta Team to Deliver Vitual Desktop
The Cisco UCS platform solution with NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon enables rapid virtual desktop
deployment, improves scalability and simplifies provisioning of storage for virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI).
Running with NexentaConnect software, this solution can deploy up to 1,600
desktops in a single UCS blade chassis with UCS C240 rack servers providing storage.
This is the only VDI solution running entirely on a Cisco UCS platform. These desktop
deployment pods provide a comprehensive environment with compute, networking,
storage and virtualization functionality fully integrated while working with the Cisco
server platform.
Based on ZFS technology with inline compression and support for hybrid storage
pools, customers can now provision the required performance (IOPS) for the desktops
in an automated fashion, effectively eliminating the potential for human error and
slow desktop performance. The use of advanced caching algorithms as well as
better hardware utilization provide for a cost effective, high performance desktop
virtualization solution.
NexentaConnect greatly simplifies the lifecycle management of deploying, managing,
and calibrating storage and VDI. It is based on a user-­‐friendly application, with a
simple ‘click to deploy’ approach, creating synergy between the desktop, hypervisor,
and storage that has never before been achieved. It’s as simple as that.
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Features
• Flexible, scalable storage architecture
exclusively for Cisco UCS Servers
• Communicates with NexentaConnect
to deploy a customized storage
platform with virtual desktops
• Integrated performance and
benchmarking tools to assess steady
state and boot storms
• Certified by VMware as a Rapid
Desktop Solution
• Lowers the overall costs of deploying
and managing a virtual desktop
deployment
Scaling Capacity, Performance and
Density Configuration Details
Entry Level
E-­‐Series 3945
Mid-Range
VDI in a box - C240
55 Desktops per Node
126 Desktops per Rack Server
196 Desktops per Blade
1600 Users per Pod
Cisco UCS E140D, E140DP, E160D,
AND E160DP
1 x Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Servers
8 x Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Servers
CPUs
6–core 1.8 GHz Intel® Xeon®
E5-2428L
2 x 8–core 2.4GHz Intel® Xeon®
E5-2665
2 x 10–cores 2.4GHz Intel® Xeon®
E7-2870
DRAM
48GB (3 x 16GB DIMMs)
256GB (16 x 16GB DIMMs)
256GB (16 x 16GB DIMMs)
Drives
3 x 900GB Seagate 10k–RPM
SAS 2.5” HDD
22 x 600GB Seagate 10k–RPM
SAS 2.5” HDD
2 x 200GB SSD
1 x Intel X520DP 10GigE
DA/SFP+NIC 1 x LSI 9207–8e PCIe3
6Gb SAS HBA
Intel X520 Dual Port 10Gb SFP+
Adapter LSI MegaRAID
9266CV–8i PCIe Card
Cisco UCS M81KR VIC
N/A (self–sustained Compute +
Storage) Branch Office solution
N/A (self–sustained Compute +
Storage) VDI–on–UCS in a box
solution
Cisco UCS C240 Rack Servers
HDDS
N/A
N/A
20 x 600GB Seagate SAS 10K
RPM HDD for data
Read Cache
N/A
1 X 200GB SSD (ZIL)
1 X 200GB SSD (ZIL)
Write Cache
N/A
1 X 200GB SSD (L2ARC)
1 X 200GB SSD (L2ARC)
Software
Concurrent user licenses for
NexentaConnect and
VMware Horizon View
Concurrent user licenses for
NexentaConnect and
VMware Horizon View
NexentaStor for NAS storage
with HA configuration.
Concurrent user licenses for
NexentaConnect and
VMware Horizon View
Performance with Login VSI
benchmark tool
VSImax medium workload:
VSImax medium workload:
VSImax medium workload:
• 55 desktops per blade
• VSImax Dynamic baseline: 2209
• IOPS per desktop: 2450
• 126 desktops per server
• VSImax Dynamic baseline: 1381
• 196 desktops per blade
• VSImax Dynamic baseline: 1264
•IOPS per desktop: 148
• Bootstorm per desktop: 1.71 Sec
• Write latency: 4.78ms
• Read latency: 2.52ms
Number of Desktops
Compute Node
I/O
NAS Storage Server
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