On April 30 e and Chris Carter Cisco, we delivered a technical webinar covering best practices for the implementation XenDesktop on Cisco UCS platform. This was the first of our series of TechTalk with Cisco and in the coming months, we will deliver more about our joint solutions. So if you have interest in a specific subject or work on our common products deployed in production, please leave a comment with suggestions about the future.
For the 235 people who attended the webinar, we thank you for your time and we hope it was worth to you. As mentioned during the call, the Q & A summary is listed below.
This is the recorded webinar link for those who do not get a chance and for all geos since it was covered for Americas time zone. For the next, we will have 3 large areas for long.
https://citrix.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1015855
The link to the recorded video, we played on the UCS PowerShell script to configure profiles service with XenDesktop these best practices in mind.
http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/8189
And of course the webinar was based on the following document Chris and I wrote there few months
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135305
Q & A Webinar succinct:
Q. -what SR-IOV supported for use as HBA with Citrix XenServer?. There is no cisco CNAs included in the Hardware Compatibility List for XenServer document speak only of SR-IOV for NPI, not for HBAs?
A. Cisco currently only supports Hyper-V and KVM with SR-IOV.
Q. Which teams should participate in making this change? for example. Network, SAN etc.?
A. As with any deployment of a server, you will need the input network, SAN, security, and other teams. The difference with Cisco UCS is that you will only need detailed input once, while creating the service model profile, and after that you'll simply deploy from the model.
Q. Do you recommend HyperThreading leave off?
A. No, we recommend enabling HyperThreading (by default it is enabled).
Q. Are they for XenDesktop / XenApp running on XenServer or that only apply to ESXi so?
A. We built the document and the script support for XenServer, ESX or Hyper-V. Specific considerations must be taken to the respective hypervisors. For example, when designing the VNIC template, and create VLANs for XenServer based deployments, your MGMT and XenMotion networks reside on the same NIC as they can not be divided. This is not the case with vSphere where you could separate them on different interfaces.
Q. How many virtual interfaces can support a VIC? Is it similar to HP Flex 10?
A much higher number of interfaces that Flex 10-256 virtual cards with the current VIC (theoretical - support of more than 100 today) - http://www.cisco.com/ en / US / prod / collateral / ps10277 / ps11551 / data_sheet_c78 [/url] -677682.html Flex 10 supports 4 interfaces. The VIC also supports Failover HW Fabric OS independent. HP would be based on OS based NIC teaming.
Q. If I share the VICs than 4 logical NICs, bandwidth is allocated to each static or dynamic, it is based on the workload
A. It is dynamic, used as required. If you want to ensure that any particular NIC gets a certain percentage of bandwidth you want to use a QoS policy and assign it to the network map.
Q. Cisco office in one part of the box of the Cisco UCS?
A. Cisco "Office In A Box" uses the Cisco Integrated Services Router 200 and 300 and the UCS blades E Series to accommodate Citrix XD, XA, and other infrastructure services in virtual machines.
Q. The "Bureau A Box" Cisco solution can scale to many users say 00?
A. The office in a box solution is ideal for very small deployments -. around 25 users (up to 40 I think) UCS E-Series blades used in the Cisco ISR does not have enough memory to accommodate more workstations that if you say instead "VDI. -In-a-Box "comment.
Q. The Cisco UCS come with Fusion IO and / or are there diskless VDI implementations that can be done?
A. Fusion-IO is optionally available for use with Citrix XenDesktop. It is ideally suited for non-persistent desktop environments (public) where changes to workstations must be maintained between logins / disconnections or failures.
Q. All the advantages of starting san vs local disk?
A. Yes, using boot from SAN (or boot from iSCSI or PXE boot) allows to be completely stateless server, allowing the movement of the service profile without concern for data movement on the local disk.
Q. When is Citrix From Wow to How happen this year?
A. There will be an update that soon, stay tuned for more Citrix information.
Q. We found that the turbo option was not in the bios of B0M2
A. Turbo Boost was introduced by Intel starting with the Xeon 5500 / 50 series processors, which uses the B0 M2. It is enabled by default.
Thanks,
Bhumik Patel
Solutions Architect, Citrix Systems
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