Desktop Virtualization Solution Brief

Streamline VDI with Nutanix

Take control of your VDI project

The virtual infrastructure that simplifies your life

Nutanix 2U High-Density Block
Nutanix empowers desktop IT with a software defined infrastructure model which is ideal for desktop IT organizations seeking efficient and cost-effective alternatives for infrastructure conceived for servers and not desktops. The Nutanix hyper-converged platform liberates VDI projects from sourcing expensive and hard to manage external storage arrays.

How will Nutanix help my Desktop Project?

Squash

boot storms performance

Dashboard

Storage

Compute

Scale-out
Compute

Up and running in under an hour

The Nutanix solution was designed for simplicity, enabling administrators to fire up View desktops less than 1hour after racking, significantly increasing time to value and speed to market.

Storage
10.0.1.3 10.0.1.1 Storage: 52.7% of 5.24TB VMs: 33 IOPS: 0 Bandwidth: 87.7KBs 10.0.1.1

40-60% Efficient

Lower CAPEX clones with VAAI and VCAI growth & forecasting

10.0.1.3

Hosts

Hosts

2.17%
DAS-SATA SSD-PCIe SSD-SATA Storage
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Pluto-10

Europa-03

Saturn-5

10.0.1.1

VMs

VM

VM

VM

Tiers / Disk
SP1

2.12%
Storage

VMs

10.0.1.2
VMs

Predictable Up 5x

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2.14%
StoragePools
ctrdata Storage

10.0.1.3
VMs

vD vDisks

vD

vD

to 10x Reduction in Rackspace Reduction in project completion times to deploy in remote offices

2.11%
CNT Containers
Storage

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10.0.1.4
VMs
Snapshots

Easy

Flexibility to fit all desktop needs

Nutanix Complete Cluster can dynamically grow or shrink with a single click with zero downtime to end users or application availability. Linear compute and random I/O scalability eliminates the dependencies on extensive capacity planning and forecasting. Simply add more nodes when additional storage or compute resources are needed and rely on consistent performance as your platform scales.

Consistent Performance at any Scale

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App Response Time (sec)

VDI for BYOD

Bring your own device (BYOD) is a business policy where employees use personally-owned mobile devices in their workplace to access privileged company resources such as email, file servers and databases in addition to personal applications. The software

defined nature of the Nutanix platform offers flexibility for rapidly changing users, devices and business applications expected in a BYOD environment.

Blazing fast performance

4-node Nutanix Cluster
The Nutanix Converged Cluster starts with 2,000 MB/s of sequential throughput and 30,000 random Ios in a 4-node cluster for ultra-fast virtual desktops. Linear Scale-out Performance Scale both random and sequential performance by stacking more blocks.
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Next Steps
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Random IOPs vs Time (sec)

Desktop Virtualization Solution Brief

Nutanix Delivers SAN-Free Virtual Desktops

40-60% Lower CAPEX
Flatten the architecture
Nutanixs Distributed File System (NDFS) transforms local storage devices into a scale-out virtualized storage cluster eliminating the need for external arrays. NDFS supports all advanced VMware features including vMotion, Distributed Resource Scaler, High Availability, and Fault Tolerance.

Nutanix Complete Cluster at a Glance

Nutanix SAN-Free Architecture Delivers best of both worlds: local Flash performance for virtualized workloads with all the benefits of shared storage. VM Optimized Data Tiering and Compression Places data on the best performing Flash tier for most frequently accessed data. Compresses cold data on conventional high-capacity spinning disks. Maximizes the performance/cost advantages of every storage medium (PCIe-Flash, SSDs, HDDs) High-Density Infrastructure Nutanix uses a hyperscale server architecture with 8 intel processors spread over 4 server nodes in a single 2U block. Combined with data archiving and compression, Nutanix can reduce data footprints by up to 4x. Multi-tenancy

Boost desktop performance with local Flash

Nutanix takes the guesswork out of deploying and architecting virtualized desktop infrastructure by engineering its product from the ground up to optimize a blend of commodity hardware, serverattached PCIe Flash, SSD, and large-capacity SATA drives.

More Users? Just add another node

Scale at the pace of your business a single node at a time
Deploy POC, pilot and production from the same starting Nutanix cluster. Simply add more nodes as additional users are added to desktop pools without sacrificing application performance or end-user experience.

Like Amazon EC2, Nutanix clusters coupled with VMware vCloud Director can run multi-tenant virtualized workloads on the same physical hardware. Time to Value The Nutanix Complete Cluster was designed for simplicity. A hyper-converged building block combined with the Nutanix OS (NOS) is a truly software-defined platform allowing you to deploy your complete cluster in 30 minutes rather than multiple weeks as needed before. Business Continuity and Data Protection Software-Defined Replication enables granular per-VM data protection policies that can be grouped for effective DR planning and runbook automation. Nutanix can protect data within datacenters or stretch replication anywhere around the globe.

True Linear Scale-out Performance

Virtual Desktops

Number of Nodes (4 Nodes per Block)

Plug-n-play with Nutanix Bonjour auto-discovery
Bonjour auto-discovery detects and configures new nodes in the cluster. This dramatically reduces the number of steps for common storage configuration and management tasks so you can focus on desktops rather than storage details. With Bonjour, deploying an NFS data store with vCenter requires less than 3 clicks.
Visit www.nutanix.com for more information. Follow us @nutanix Email learnmore@nutanix.com