Hello, there! Today we are fortunate to have a guest post by Mallik Mahalingham, founder and CTO, Springpath. He will talk about Springpath HCI platform, Cisco and all things Citrix Synergy. Thank Mallik! - JL
Hello! As first guest blogger on Citrix, I would like to introduce myself. I am one of the founders of Springpath, the next generation Hyperconvergence software company.
Springpath the hyperconverged Data Platform is called the powers of Cisco recently launched Hyperconvergence solution Hyperflex. You can read more about it here. We are very pleased to be working with Cisco to help their customers adopt and implement hyperconvergence in their data centers.
Hyperconvergence's all over deliver storage enterprise class services on the same servers that run as host and applications, VMs or virtual desktops. The confluence of technologies such as multi-core CPUs, high-density memory, high-speed networking, low-cost SSDs, reliable distributed systems software techniques and modern file system implementations in recent years has server a dedicated and reliable platform for storage services provides. It replaces the need for conventional storage systems such as dedicated NAS or SAN arrays. In addition, the simplicity of hyperconvergence has made it easy enough for anyone with a basic knowledge of servers and hypervisor storage services to deliver.
Back in 2012, when Springpath was founded, we saw in the early versions of hyperconverged get products to market and decided we should build a software platform from scratch, flexible, efficient, easy and future proof to support such innovations are containers. You can read about our vision more here.
Cisco was looking for an innovative hyperconvergence software provider for its market leading UCS servers. Cisco took Springpath and launched March 2016 Cisco broke ground Hyperconvergence platform as a separate family of devices called Hyper Flex. We were blown away by the reception that Hyperflex received in the market, and look forward to making the market leading hyperconverged solution.
Cisco has a great partnership with Citrix, which goes back many years. The combination of Citrix leadership in end-user computing market and management of Cisco in the data center has created the perfect partnership to accelerate the provision of hyperconverged infrastructure for desktop and application virtualisation.
Cisco Hyperflex the following significant advantages.
- Start small and grow on demand is a perfect platform for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp provides you how to add more users. Optimized for VDI projects that begin as pilots and grow rapidly in the thousands of users.
- scale rake only nodes independent of memory heavy knot. The majority of VDI deployments are raking or memory barrier. Hyper Flex offers the possibility slices fewer servers or Blades add to scale virtual desktops without having to spend on storage, and all under the same management domain.
- Leverage fast, space-saving native cloning VM to quickly provision hundreds of desktops quickly.
- impairing handle power requirements of boot storms, login storms and virus scans without user experience. Read Hyperflex patent pending and write caching algorithms helps IO storms in SSDs record.
- Lower the cost of storage with always-on data de-duplication and compression and help save more desktops per TB of storage than other solutions, without having to worry about impact on performance.
I can enumerate many other advantages, but I'll stop here. Recently we have with LoginVSI were with Cisco and Citrix Hyperflex Xendektop significant amount of performance and scale testing it with 7.8 PVS and I'm thrilled, here are some early results, to share it.
we used the setup for the test as follows:
Hardware
- 8 knots HX220c (RCD) Cisco HyperFlex Cluster
- Nexus 000 switches
desktop software image Profile
- standard Windows 7SP1 32 bit
- Citrix receiver version number 14.4.0.8014
software versions (Citrix, etc..)
- HX cluster running 1.7.1 GA
- ESX / vCenter 6.0 U1b
- Citrix XenDesktop 7.8 with PVS
- Sign VSI1.5.115
- knowledge workers test profile
results the test:
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Figure 1 above shows the IOPS, throughput and latency of Hyperflex remained extremely predictable, as the number of active sessions to 1000. the average increase 0 MBps throughput and ~ 2msec average latency is easy to support the setup in the central 1000 desktops with a knowledge worker profile.
Figure 2 shows the top LoginVSI benchmarking tool VSIMax was not achieved by 1000 knowledge worker desktops. It also shows there enough room (VSImax Average vs VSImax threshold) is a reaction time position. We are more results from the test in Cisco Validated Design (CVD) to share documents, but this gives an insight into how Cisco Hyperflex can support the most demanding Citrix XenDesktop VDI environments with superior performance. This combined with the simplicity, ease of use, scalability and reliability makes Cisco Hyperflex the right HyperConvereged infrastructure choice for your desktop and app virtualization initiatives.
Please visit booth # 505 and Session # SYN0 learn more at Citrix Synergy. Thanks for reading
About Mallik Mahalingam .: Mallik brings more than 20 years of experience in building and shipping enterprise system software products from scratch. Before founding Springpath he was Principal Engineer at VMware where he built both networking and storage product development for nearly a decade and led high-quality enterprise virtualization products. With VMware, he also pioneering industry-wide initiatives such as VXLAN and PCI SR-IOV. Mallik was the face of VMware on VMware Lead partners and customers in technical matters. Before VMware, he held research positions at Hewlett Packard Laboratories and engineering positions at Intel and NetFrame systems. Mallik was a research assistant at IIT Kanpur and has a B.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Madras. He holds over 60 US patents on many system software products.
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