Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with Cisco UCS

A presentation at Cisco Webinar by Shawn Wells

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with Cisco UCS Shawn Wells Technical Director, U.S. Intelligence Programs (e) shawn@redhat.com (c) 443.534.0130 © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1

Agenda Why Virtual Desktop Infrastructure • • Solving Desktop Challenges Technology  RHEV-D Features  Performance & Scalability  SPICE & VDI Clients Use Cases Partners & ISVs Solution Benefits Q&A  • • • • © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2

Traditional Desktop Challenges Costs Mgmt Security  Complex & multiple datacenters  Wasted IT resources and time spent managing desktops  Frequent desktop refresh cycles  Tough economic times means tighter budgets  No remote access to disparate data and applications  Single OS means application limitations  Disaster recovery for desktops is costly and challenging  Difficult to maintain control over your data  Mobile computers means mobile data  Employees working from home or remotely  Encryption and security utilities are limited © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3

Solving Desktop Challenges with RHEV • Advanced KVM technology • Refined centralized • • • • management RHEV & UCS industry leading scalability and VM density Highest kernel-level security and isolation with SELinux Deliver Windows and Linux environments Bi-directional Audio & Video © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4

Benefits of KVM • Leverages Red Hat Enterprise Linux – no need to re-invent the wheel  Trusted, stable enterprise platform  Scheduler, memory management, hardware support, etc inherited from RHEL  Ease of management – use same tools for managing physical servers and hypervisors  • Advanced host features   Inherit scalability, NUMA support, power management, hot-plug, etc SELinux security © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5

Benefits of UCS • The first converged system available anywhere • Self-aware, self-integrating operation • Familiar benefits of centralized computing combined with state-ofthe-art Intel Xeon processors • Automated, just-in-time configuration for greater flexibility and agility © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Simplified architecture with one network technology for all I/O Scalability without complexity Consistent networking for physical and virtual servers, an ideal platform for cloud computing • Confidence regarding the future • Cisco® investment protection Cisco Confidential 6

Setting a New Standard in Scalability © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7

Performance Without Compromise 25 Months: 40+ World Records and Counting #1 SPECint_rate200 6 Cisco UCS™ C460 M2 SPECjbb2005 X86/64 2socket B200 M2 SPECOMPL base2001 4-socket C2460 M1 SPECOMPL base2001 2socket B200 M2 SPECOMPM base2001 4socket C2460 M1 SPECjbb2005 X86/64 2-socket B230 M1 VMmark 2.1 2 -socket-blade B200 M2 SPECompL base2001 C460M2 SPECOMPM base2001 2socket B200 M2 LS-Dyna 4socket C460M1 SPECjAPP Server 2004 2node B230 M1 SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86/64 2socket B200 M2 SPECompM base2001 C460 M2 SPECfp_rate_ base 2006 X86/64 2-socket B200 M2 SPECjbb2005 X86/64 4-socket C460 M1 Oracle E-business Suite Medium Model Order to Cash B200M2 SPECjEnterprise 2010 Overall B440 M1 SPECompL base2001 B230 M2 SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86/64 2-socket B200 M2 SPECfp_rate_ base 2006 X86/64 4-socket C460 M1 Oracle E-business Suite Medium Model payroll Batch B200M2 SPECOMPL base2001 2socket B200 M2 SPECompM base2001 B230M2 SPECfp_rate_ base2006 X86/64 2-socket B200 M1 SPECjAPPServer 2004 single node 2-socket C250 M2 SPECint_rate_ base 2006 X86/64 4-socket C460 M1 Oracle E-business Suite Ex-large Model payroll Batch B200M2 SPECOMPM base2001 2-socket B200 M2 SPECijbb2005 C260 M2 SPECint_rate_ base2006 X86/64 2-Socket B200 M1 2-socket VMmark B250 M2 VMmark Overall C460 M1 VMmark 1Blade C460 M1 VMmark 1.1 2 -socket-blade B230 M1 Oracle E-business Suite Medium Model payroll Batch B200M2 SPECint_rate_ base2006 C260 M2 2-socket VMmark B200 M1 2-socket server VMmark B200 recapture LInPack 2-socket B200 M2 VMmark 1Blade B440 M1 SPECjbb2005 X86/64 2-socket B230 M1 VMmark 2.0 Overall B200 M2 SPECfp_rate_ base2006 C260 M2 Q2 CY09 © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Q1 CY10 VMmark 2.1 C460 M2 Q3 CY10 Q4 CY10 Q1 CY11 Cisco Confidential Q2 CY11 8

Comprehensive Server Product Line Right-Sized for Your Business Needs Mainstream Extended Memory Cisco UCS™ C210 M2 Intensive and Mission Critical Cisco UCS C260 M2 Rack-Mount • Cisco UCS C200 M2 Cisco UCS C250 M2 • • Extensibility Cisco UCS C460 M2 Leading memory and I/O density for online transaction processing and data warehousing 2S Intel Xeon E7-2800, 64 DIMM (1 TB), 16 SSD/HDD 2S licensing @ 4S RAS/extensibility/ performance Cisco UCS B440 M2 Cisco UCS B250 M2 Cisco UCS B200 M2 Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade 2S EP 2S EX 4S EX Cisco UCS: Many Form Factors, One System © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9

Advanced Desktop Security: sVirt • SELinux security policies maintain VM infrastructure on hosts  Provides protection and isolation for virtual machines & host  Compromised VM cannot access other VMs or host • sVirt Project  Sub-project of NSA’s SELinux community, provides granularity for virtual environments  Included by default • SSL Encapsulation © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10

Advanced Desktop Management  Search-driven UI makes managing thousands of objects easy  Bookmarks, tags, and other advanced GUI functions  Cross-correlate information across users, VMs, hosts, applications, status, etc. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11

Maintaining Your Desktop Environment © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12

Freedom to Choose Your Desktop • Supported guest desktop operating systems • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 (32 and 64 bit)    (RHEL6 coming Spring 2012) Windows XP SP3+ (32 bit) Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)  • Microsoft SVVP certified • Support WHQL drivers to be delivered by RHEV Tools or Windows Update • V2V (Virtual to Virtual) migration tool for Windows VMs © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13

SPICE: Designed for Virtual Desktops • Exceptional User Experience       Bi-directional audio & video VoIP & video conferencing HD quality video Hi resolution display Multiple monitor capable USB redirection (CAC Cards)  • Adaptive Protocol   Dynamically chooses point to process graphics Locally or on VDI server © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 14

RHEV & UCS VDI Partner Community pplication VirtualizationWorkspace Management © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Printing Thin Clients Cisco Confidential 15

Red Hat Subscriptions Provides continuous value and support for your virtualization infrastructure now and in the future.  Product Access  Updates  Patches  Knowledge Base  Support Options  Certification  Cleared (up to TS/SCI Full Scope Poly) support available © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 16

What Is Next? © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Schedule a migration workshop or pilot • Let us work with you to create a migration strategy • Cisco Confidential 17

Thank you. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 18

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Spoke about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on Cisco UCS hardware. Detailed recent RHEV-D features, performance and scalability results, and details of the underlying SPICE technology.