Reference Architecture Overview
A Validated Architecture for Deploying Large-Scale VDI Below $250 per desktop with “Better than PC” Performance using Atlantis ILIO & Trend Micro
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with VMware View revolutionizes enterprise desktop computing by lowering the total cost of desktop computing, increasing security and making desktop computing more agile. However, there are a few challenges when designing the VDI infrastructure.
The cost of infrastructure required to support VDI can be high. The most common cause of increasing infrastructure costs and poor performance for VDI is storage.
Atlantis ILIO fundamentally changes the economics and performance characteristics of VMware View deployments by intelligently optimizing how the Windows operating system interacts with storage providing customers
- Lower overall CAPEX cost by up to 75%
- 4-7X more users on the existing infrastructure
- Up to 90% IO offload resulting in high storage performance
Key Highlights
- Validated high performance architecture for 1,000 users
- 300 IOPS per desktop
- CAPEX cost of $172 non-persistent virtual desktops
- CAPEX cost of $234 for persistent virtual desktops
- Storage cost saving of 94% for persistent desktops. Sub-$20,000 storage cost w/ ILIO vs. $357,000 for 1000 users
- 38% storage saving and 86% less capacity for non-persistent desktops
- 15X and 3X improvement in storage density for persistent and non-persistent respectively
- 9X faster provisioning time for persistent desktops
1,000 PERSISTENT VIEW 5.0 RESULTS
| Before Atlantis ILIO | After Atlantis ILIO | Impact | |
| Cost Per Desktop for Storage | $357 | $20 | 94% Savings |
| Total Cost Per Desktop | $451 | $234 | 48% savings |
| Storage Capacity | 17.2TB | 0.46 TB | 97% Less |
| Provisioning Time | 100 Hours | 11 hours | 9x faster |
| Total # of Desktops | 60 | 1000 | 16X higher |
1000 user SAN storage cost: $20,000 w/ILIO vs. $357,000
NON-PERSISTENT VIEW 5 RESULTS
| Before Atlantis ILIO | After Atlantis ILIO | Impact | |
| Total Cost Per Desktop | $276 | $172 | 38% savings |
| Storage Capacity | 3.2GB | 0.45GB | 86% Less |
| Total # of Desktops | 20 | 60 | 3X higher |
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
- VMware View 5 with Persona
- VMware ThinApp
- Atlantis ILIO Storage Optimization Software
- Trend Micro Deep Security
- View Planner 2.0
Atlantis ILIO at a Glance
Atlantis ILIO™ is a VDI storage and performance optimization software solution that complements VMware View to optimize storage, boost desktop performance and make VDI security economically feasible.Atlantis ILIO technologies include highly efficient processing of Windows NTFS storage IO traffic and inline deduplication of Windows images before they reach storage resulting in high performance.
Trend Micro Deep Security at a Glance
Deep Security provides agentless security for every virtual desktop without density impact or performance overhead of traditional security technologies. The Deep Security virtual appliance offers the industry’s first agentless anti-malware solution.
ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
The architecture includes VMware View 5 with Persona, ThinApp, Atlantis ILIO and Trend Micro Deep Security for both persistent and non-persistent VDI. Atlantis ILIO and Trend Micro are deployed as virtual appliances on every host server to increase desktop performance, reduce storage IO traffic and capacity and provide agentless security for the virtual desktops. 1,000 Persistent VMware View 5 Architecture
- VMware View 5 with Persona
- VMware ThinApp
- Atlantis ILIO Storage Optimization Software
- Trend Micro Deep Security
- Servers — 8 cores @ 2.66GHz with 144GB RAM
- Storage — SAN/NAS with 14 x 15K SAS Drives
Non-Persistent VMware View 5 Architecture
The non-persistent architecture scales out modularly with a density of 60 users per server and uses the same servers, Atlantis ILIO and Trend Micro configurations but replaces the SAN/NAS storage with lower cost local 15K SAS drives.
Reference Architecture Bill of Materials
| 1,000 PERSISTENT VIEW ARCHITECTURE (SHARED SAN/NAS STORAGE) |
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| ITEM | DESCRIPTION | QUANTITY |
| Atlantis ILIO Persistent Licenses | Persistent license per named user. Includes 1st year maintenance. | 1,000 |
| Host Servers | INTEL E5620 (4C/8T 12M, 2.40-2.66GHZ,5.86,80W 750W Redundant high efficiency Power Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller LSI 2108 8-Port 6Gbps SAS Hardware RAID Controller; RAID 10 144GB Memory DDR3 1333MHZ 8GB | 17 |
| Storage | NAS/SAN with 14 x 15K SAS Drives and 1TB of Storage Capacity 4 X 1Gbe network connections from switch to Storage. | 1 |
| Total Cost | $234,095 | |
| Total Cost Per Desktop | $234.10 | |
| NON-PERSISTENT VIEW ARCHITECTURE (LOCAL DISK — SCALES OUT 60 USERS PER SERVER) |
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| ITEM | DESCRIPTION | QUANTITY |
| Atlantis ILIO Non-Persistent Licenses | Non-Persistent license per named user. Includes 1st year maintenance. | 60 |
| Host Servers | INTEL E5620 (4C/8T 12M, 2.40-2.66GHZ,5.86,80W 750W Redundant high efficiency Power Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller LSI 2108 8-Port 6Gbps SAS Hardware RAID Controller; RAID 10 144GB Memory DDR3 1333MHZ 8GB 4x 15K SAS Drives | 1 |
| Total Cost | $10,335 | |
| Cost Per Desktop | $172.25 | |
