Just around the corner is a new Cisco ® design Validated (CVD), which documents a reference architecture that combines Citrix ® XenDesktop ® 7.1, blade servers Cisco UCS, NetApp storage and VMware ESXi 5.1 as the hypervisor. In collaboration with engineers from Cisco and NetApp Citrix partners, we have built the solution and conducted validation tests for mixed workload shared hosted desktops (RDS) and hosted virtual desktops (VDI). The soon-to-be-released CVD describes an enterprise solution that has excellent scalability for a workload of mixed user 00 users.
The solution is based on a FlexPod-key infrastructure (ie FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1) that takes advantage of the new generation of hardware and software components: Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 and Provisioning Services 7.1 UCS B0 M3 blade Cisco, Intel ® Xeon ® E5-2680v2 (Ivy bridge) processors, and NetApp shared storage with clustered Data ONTAP ® system storage operation. The architecture is designed with N + 1 fault tolerant server to using two Cisco UCS chassis with two blades for infrastructure servers and blades 12 for shared and virtualized desktops.
The infrastructure turnkey Nature provides a compact, affordable, and flexible solution for hosting Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 software. This XenDesktop version follows a new unified architecture that arrangements also welcomed the shared desktops (RDS) and virtual desktops hosted (VDI) using the same management framework, tools and common policies. CVD has a fully validated design we stress-tested under a workload of 2,000 seats - 1,450 hosted desktop shared with 64 Server 2012 virtual machines and 550 virtual desktops hosted with Windows 7. Cisco UCS blades Ivy Bridge processors and 384 GB RAM supported many more users than similar tests with the previous generation Sandy Bridge architecture.
supported the reference architecture the user density of 2,000 seats using a fully virtualized configuration on VMware ESX 5.1. Our unique server test showed excellent results that changes linearly to the density of 2,000 users on multiple servers. CVD is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable reference architecture that is ideal for large departments and enterprise deployments.
I'll post more about our testing and scalability of results (including a link to the actual CVD) when Cisco published this month (February). When CVD is released, I will be sure to send another post
UPDATE (25/02/2014) :. CVD is now available http://www.cisco.com/c/dam /en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_ucs_xd7esxi51_flexpod.pdf
- Frank Anderson Solutions Senior Architect with Citrix Alliances worldwide
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