Less really can be more when it comes to desktop virtualization. 180 Working PC-on-a-Chip positions within the hypervisor with Citrix XenDesktop, HP Moonshot and AMD. Part 1
Last week, HP Discover in Barcelona, Spain, HP unveiled a revolutionary new member of the Moonshot platform called Converged System 100 for hosted desktops designed exclusively with AMD Citrix XenDesktop. This new architecture is unlike anything else in the industry and Citrix was there together on the show floor unveiling this new platform jointly developed with customers and partners. The interest of participants was incredible and the simplicity of this new platform with XenDesktop and Provisioning Services makes participants to really understand that desktop virtualization can be made simpler with an architecture of this type. Let's take a look at the equipment and dive deeper into this exciting new game changing the architecture.
Chassis
The Moonshot platform 1500 is a 4.3U chassis that has an impressive range of computing, graphics, storage and network. This new cartridge Proliant M700 server or HDI Desktop Infrastructure hosted, was designed for the key knowledge workers that require direct access to the unfiltered material that has been traditionally managed by a hypervisor in the world of VDI. By providing this level hardware access users can be assured that they will not have to share hardware resources with anyone else who could have a potentially other in a traditional VDI architecture impact. With this new architecture users now have access to their own dedicated processor, graphics, storage and networking that enhances the user experience and ultimately productivity.
Inside the Moonshot chassis are 45-plug and play server dedicated M700 cartridges. Each M700 cartridge has 4 nodes or PC-on-a-chip systems that are powered by the chassis. With 4 PC-on-a-chip nodes X 45 cartridges which gives us a total of 180 dedicated CCPS systems. Each cartridge consumes a low amount of awesome power of power which is typically 33 watts in active use, 20 watts at idle and a maximum of 63 watts. This is about 8 watts per node , on average, equivalent to a small radio, but with the power and experience HDX a boom box! For an entire chassis the total amount of power that these cartridges 45 or 180 knots consume, on average, is about 1500 watts , which is the equivalent of a home appliance microwave. Sure mileage may vary, but you get the point of how energy savings can be applied here.
The image below highlights the fully loaded Moonshot chassis with 45 cartridges.
Cartridges
Each HP m700 Proliant is supplied by a PC-on-a-Chip architecture designed by HP and AMD. Each node on a cartridge has an AMD Opteron X2150 APU (4) Basic x86 1.5 GHz processor with AMD Radeon 8000 Series Graphics. The graphics and the processor die are one piece of silicon called Accelerated Processing Unit or APU and Radeon Cores offer 128 to 500 MHz. This type of graphics card is perfectly designed for the knowledge worker who has light level graphics requirements as D IRECT X 11 compatible applications such as Microsoft Office 2013. This allows reduced size for SOC and HP and AMD provides the flexibility of having 4 nodes per cartridge. Each node has a 8 GB of dedicated DDR3 PC3-12800 Enhanced ECC SDRAM 100 MHz speed for a total of 32 GB per cartridge. For storage of each cartridge has an integrated storage controller with a dedicated SANDISK 32GB iSSD per node located on the Mezzanine Kit storage for a total of 128GB of space. Each iSSD is estimated to make up 400 IOPS which more than enough for most traditional SBC or VDI users. Each node also has its own pair of 1GB Broadcom NICS allowing a combined 2 GB of dedicated network bandwidth per node. This makes for more design choices to enable node to access different VLANs for starting production and trafficking if desired. For deployment BIOS node allows each node to start a series of simple methods like boot via local iSSD, PXE boot, and start once via PXE, or a hard drive. Also each m700 nodes have the ability to take advantage of Wake-On-LAN WOL using a magic packet. This allows even nodes that are powered off in the chassis to be powered directly from Provisioning Services Console!
Networking
is inside the frame is a simple, easy to take advantage of the series of integrated switches. There are two switches that are segmented as switch A and B. Each switch Wolff switch can provide up to 4 x 40GB uplinks stackable switch. Wolff these switches are entirely manageable switches with layer 2 and layer 3 routing functionality as well as QoS features, SNMP and sFlow. With each node having 1 February 1GB NICS dedicated and each cartridge delivers 8GB of potential traffic, these switches are ready to handle any kind of scenario HDI workload.
XenDesktop and HDX
Until now, you have read the material and its interesting features, but is there a specific version of XenDesktop for Moonshot platform? Yes there is. The HP Converged System 100 will be supported by Citrix for customers using XenDesktop 7.1 and Provisioning Services 7.1. While it is possible that previous versions of XenDesktop can work, the main feature only provides XenDesktop 7.1 is the ability for the VDA standard to take advantage of native GPU to direct X applications on, for example, without the need Pro HDX 3D VDA has always been the case prior to take advantage of GPU. (The HDX 3D Pro VDA is needed for higher end CAD applications, which also require a high-end GPU that what is inside the M700 cartridge. Think NVIDIA K2 and XenServer GPU pass with HP BL380 Gen 8 blades here for HDX 3D Pro for those higher end users which is a distinct architecture that Moonshot.) for those of us who have been keeping the speed with XenDesktop, Derek Thorslund displayed great Blog what the XenDesktop VDA 7.1 can provide native graphics. Throughout the development of Moonshot Citrix platform, HP and AMD have worked very closely on the side of HDX. Meanwhile, Citrix developers were able to improve our VDA 7.1 WDDM current standard to be able to provide optimizations that are now able to take advantage of AMD graphics cards that are standard on Moonshot platform HDI. This new WDDM driver improvement now provides superior HDX experience that can directly leverage the GPU for each node! The example below shows the device driver WDDM driver Citrix and AMD Radeon GPU. It is important to note again that this new AMD optimization is specifically designed and supported for XenDesktop VDA 7.1 and not the VDA Pro HDX 3D is not supported of the Citrix platform CS100 form Moonshot at the time of writing this article. This new enhancement is in the form of a patch (MSP) is now available on Citrix.com
http :. //support.citrix. com / article / CTX139622
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX139621
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180 bare metal nodes to Windows 7 in minutes
in most situations, there will be some ways to deliver bare metal Windows nodes before XenDesktop and Provisioning services installers can be deployed. The current method HP Support to provide Windows 7 x64 to a node or WDS uses Windows Deployment Services. WDS is a free part of SP1 to Windows 08R2 and OS / Windows 2012 R2 that can be activated. Once we have our master image created the fun part begins. In the next series, I'll show you the simple process to take advantage of WDS to deploy Windows 7 to our master node in just a matter of minutes. Then I will show you the PowerShell capabilities Moonshot to PVS and how were able to build the 180 knots just with PVS and Studio. More to come so check back soon ....
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