Turbo Charge Your VMware Horizon Deployments

Avinash Shetty, Riverbed Technology

Liam Yu, VMware

EUC7368

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Agenda

● Horizon Suite Overview

● Branch Office View Architecture – Riverbed Granite – Reference design – By the numbers – Demo

● Mirage – Maintain all desktops at the edge – Physical desktop use cases

● Workspace – HTTP optimizations – Demo

● Q&A

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Riverbed – The IT Performance

Company

Virtual Services Platform

Steelhead EX +

Granite

Granite Core

Opnet ARX, with

embedded Shark

VMware Horizon Suite

View, Mirage and Workspace

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Workforce Mobility Evolution

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Corp. Office

Worker

1985 IT Controls Entire OSI Stack

Application layer

Presentation Layer

Session Layer

Transport Layer

Network Layer

Data Layer

Physical Layer

One User Experience

Launch App

Windows Corp network Windows app

app

installed

app not

installed

Click

DT icon

AuthZ &

AuthN

App

Started!

Remediation

workflow

450

Desktop PC Era

• Single Operating Systems Optimized for Microsoft Windows

• All on Local Network and Intranet - Users, Devices, Apps, Data

• IT in controls of everything

PC-Era

2000

Flock of Seagulls

here

One Workforce

Workforce Mobility Complexity Begins

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IT maintains status quo, by augmenting OSI

Application - Virtualized

Presentation – Windows & Web

Session – Add Multifactor AuthN, Fed. AuthZ

Transport Add SSL

Network – Add VPN

Data – Add Encryption

Physical Virtualized

New User Experiences!

Launch App

Windows

Corp network Windows app

app

installed

app not

installed

Click

DT icon

AuthZ &

AuthN

App

Started!

Remediation

workflow

450

Age of the Remote Worker

• Workforce Decentralization and the remote workforce to Home, Branch office, and road warrior

• Life for remote users is a lot more complicated

• IT & Users must now worry about VPN or not, VDI, Shared Desktop or App Remoting

Not on Corp

network Windows app

app

installed

app not

installed

Click

DT icon

AuthZ &

AuthN

App

Started!

Remediation

workflow

Remote

Worker

Corp. Office

Worker

Branch

Office

2001 2006

New Workforce Profiles

Remote Workforce

Era Begins

Workforce Mobility Complexity Expands

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User Experience Expansion

450

Launch App

Windows

Corp network Windows app

app

installed

app not

installed

Click

DT icon

AuthZ &

AuthN

App

Started!

Remediation

workflow

Not on Corp

network Windows app

app

installed

app not

installed

Click

DT icon

AuthZ &

AuthN

App

Started!

Remediation

workflow

Remote

Worker1

Corp. Office

Worker

Branch

Worker

2006 2010

MAC

Corp network Windows app

app

installed

app not

installed

Click

DT icon

AuthZ &

AuthN

App

Started!

Remediation

workflow

Not on Corp

network Windows app

app

installed

app not

installed

Click

DT icon

AuthZ &

AuthN

App

Started!

Remediation

workflow

Mac is Back, Workforce Expansion Accelerates! • Macs often needs access to Windows applications and supporting Macs requires additional infrastructure

• Web & SaaS begins to emerge for LoB workforce (ERP, CRM, EFT/ACH, Data/Order Processing)

• Remote Workforce expands beyond Branch Office, Field Home, & Power. Now includes global BPO (operational/support services, KB contractors), sales partners & vendor supply chain ecosystems1

• Mobile Power Workers is the new norm including - Executives, Knowledge & Content Workers2

Workforce Expansion

Mobile

Power

Worker2

Remote Workforce Expands

“ Cloud? Not my problem,”

- IT

IT DISTORTION FIELD HERE

Evolution of Complexity Without End

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450

Launch App

Remote

worker

Corp. Office

worker

Branch

Office

2010 2013

Android, iOS, WinRT, Cloud! Oh my!

• Extended Workforce, Device Proliferation, Consumerization

• Device proliferation across smartphones, tablets, 1worker = 2-3 devices

• Backdoor adoption, new threat vectors, IT struggles to keep up

Extended

workforce1

Workforce

Proliferation1

IT Controls None of the OSI Stack! • Where’s my Application? • How many Presentation Layers? • Who’s Session is it? • Multi-Transport? • Network in China? • Cloud Data Layer? • Personal Physical Layer?

Windows

Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Not on Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

MAC

Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Not on Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

iOS

Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Not on Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Android

Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Not on Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Windows RT

Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Not on Corp network Windows app

app installed

app not installed

Click DT icon AuthZ & AuthN App Started!

Remediation workflow

Rise of the Public Cloud &

Consumerization2

Mobility Era

Add Cloud

Services Here

Workforce Mobility

Investm

ent

Str

ate

gy

Infr

astr

uctu

re

& O

pera

tion

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Horizon EUC Suite

Centralized image

management

Mobile

workspace

HORIZON SUITE The platform for workforce mobility

Horizon

View

Horizon

Mirage

Horizon

Workspace

Desktop and

application

virtualization

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Challenges Experienced in Delivering Virtual

Desktops

9%

19%

19%

20%

21%

22%

23%

26%

27%

27%

33%

37%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40%

We have not experienced any challenges

Technical challenges make collaboration with other…

Impact on other centrally hosted applications running…

Unreliable end-user access for mobile…

Lack of data/application consistency

Difficulty securing data in transit

Lack of sufficient WAN infrastructure/telco services

Slow file transfer speed

Unreliable end-user access for ROBO users

Too much data to move over WAN

Poor performance (i.e., response time)

Cost of WAN bandwidth

Riverbed Granite

Branch office View architecture

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Branch Storage Consolidation with

Steelhead EX + Granite

Virtual Services Platform (VSP)

● Consolidate Branch Services on to one appliance

● Granite

Consolidate storage to the data center

● Project storage out to the branch

● Access it from a VM on Steelhead EX or from an external host

DATA CENTER

BRANCH OFFICE

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VMware Horizon View with Granite

Solution Summary

● LAN performance for user desktops

● Bandwidth reduction – PCoIP NOT across the WAN

● Reduced cost on central storage

● Access to VDI desktops during WAN outages

● Fast peripheral access

● Centralized management and security

BRANCH OFFICE

Local Performance

DATA CENTER

Central Management

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By the numbers

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20

35

70

0

20

40

60

80

# of User Sessions on T1 link

250 250

700

0

200

400

600

800

Maximum WAN latency supported

833

1295

833

1295

343

0 0

500

1000

1500

IOPS during boot storms (lower is better)

0

40

90

0

20

40

60

80

100

% Bandwidth reduction

●None ●Steelhead ●Granite

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TCO

What is my cost per desktop?

Bandwidth Savings

Disconnect Operations

User Experience

Productivity

WAN Optimization

Central IOPS offload

Security

Central Management

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Demo

VDI DEMO

Horizon Mirage

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Improve Branch Performance

Bandwidth Optimizations

● Steelheads provide bandwidth benefit up to 95%

Performance Improvements

● Application optimizations help improve user response times

DATA CENTER

BRANCH OFFICE

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VMware Horizon Mirage with Granite

Managing the branch

● Clone golden image with Mirage to branch

● Provision Mirage Branch Reflector at remote site (optional)

● Recompose virtual desktops at branch

● Re-image or refresh physical desktops at branch

BRANCH OFFICE

DATA CENTER

Horizon Workspace

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Horizon Data Optimization

Horizon Workspace Benefits

● HTTP/S optimizations

● First pass: 50% faster on compression alone

● Second pass: 25X faster with 99% bandwidth savings

● Changed file: 10X faster with 85% bandwidth savings

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DATA CENTER

BRANCH OFFICE

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WORKSPACE

DEMO

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Summary

Performance

Acceleration

Performance

Management

For users… For IT… Riverbed

Performance Platform

Programmable

infrastructure

Steelhead

Performance

Mgmt. Granite Stingray Whitewater

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References

● Riverbed VMware micro-site – http://www.riverbed.com/vmware

● Documents – Granite + Steelhead

• Solution Brief: Riverbed for the VMware Branch Office Desktop

• VMware Horizon Data: Performance Brief

• Deployment Guide: Riverbed for the VMware Branch Office Desktop

– Stingray ADC

• https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/riverbed-stingray-traffic-manager-9-0-service

– Cascade

• http://media-cms.riverbed.com/documents/PartnerSolutionBrief-Riverbed_Cascade_VMware_VXLAN.pdf

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THANK YOU

Turbo Charge Your VMware Horizon Deployments

Avinash Shetty, Riverbed Technology

Liam Yu, VMware

EUC7368

#EUC7368