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NexentaVSA for View


NexentaVSA for View (NV4V) is a software solution that combines

Nexenta's 3rd generation NAS/SAN storage appliance with a powerful VDI

deployment/management server. NV4V is designed to inter-operate

seamlessly with VMware vCenter and View servers.

NexentaVSA for View

The product is bundled into two virtual machines (OVF images).

NV4V is designed from ground up to absorb and hide the complexity of

deploying and managing virtual desktop datacenters. The product provides

fully automated, GUI-driven VDI provisioning, re-calibration of existing

desktop pools, I/O acceleration, performance graphics and analytics, built-in

snapshots, and replication. It is a massively scalable, turn-key VDI solution.


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NexentaVSA for View

Scheduled Task Execution

With intervals ranging from seconds, to minutes, hours, days, weeks and

months

Snapshots and backups can be scheduled to run periodically, desktop pool re-

calibration can be scheduled to run at a later time

Management Infrastructure Customizable Desktop Deployment Profiles

Each deployment profile is automatically saved and can be modified and reused

Performance Graphs for ESXi Clusters and Hosts

CPU and Memory usage

ZFS and NFS read/write IOps, ARC and L2ARC size


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Reconfigure any of the NV4V deployed desktop pools

based on your needs and requirements

Reconfigure & Recompose

VMware View Recompose transparently upgrades the desktop pool

by distributing the golden image to the linked clones


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Reconfigure:

Desktop pool

settings

NexentaStor VSA

parameters

Resources for NS

VSAs, desktops,

and resource

pools


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Recompose:

Supported only

for linked clones

Re-deploys

desktop pool

from a specific

snapshot


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New Deployment Options Advanced storage options:

HDD and SSD size ranges

Read/write optimized drives selection

SSD-only storage

Profiles:

RAID selection for the data volume

Network:

Automated creation of port groups and vSwitches


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VAAI NAS NV4V integrates VMware NAS VAAI plugin designed to interoperate with

NexentaStor and further accelerate deployment of external appliances.

VAAI NAS speeds up certain operations on the desktop images located on

the NFS mount

The plug-in effectively offloads network-intensive NFS operations

2x faster to deploy 200 desktops over a 10G NFS network


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VAAI NAS


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Local Snapshots Unlimited – the number of the local snapshots of the virtual desktops is only

limited by storage capacity

Immediate – instant live snapshotting of all desktops in a desktop pool

Revertible – restore a single desktop or an entire desktop pool from any

snapshot

Schedulable – with intervals ranging from seconds, to minutes, to hours, days,

weeks and months

Non-disruptive – does not affect user performance, no extra load on the system


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Backup and Restore Backup – an entire desktop pool to a remote NexentaStor Appliance

Safe - keep extra copies of the desktop infrastructure for the disaster

recovery

Restore – a single desktop or an entire desktop pool from any ZFS

snapshot at the destination

Scheduled backup – with intervals ranging from seconds, to minutes,

to hours, days, weeks and months


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Unlimited Scalability

Expand any given ESXi cluster by adding additional ESXi hosts, then

deploy them with more virtual desktops; all on the fly

Multi-tenancy - deploy multiple VDI pools on a single server or cluster.

Local storage and local ESXi CPU/memory resources => no single-server

bottleneck

Support multiple VMware View Connection Servers and vCenter servers


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Calibration

Improve NexentaStor VSA performance with unused resources

Automatically increase or reduce the number of desktops in a given range,

for a user-specified performance (IOPS) target

Recalibrate VSA’s CPU and/or memory resources, for a user-specified

performance (IOPS) target


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Replicated HA Replicated High Availability (RHA) service periodically and incrementally replicates all desktop pools

in a given ESXi Cluster. Frequency of RHA backups can be selected based on your recovery point

objectives (RPO).

Manual failover / failback of an entire ESXi Cluster or an individual ESXi host(s) to a remote

NexentaStor appliance

Failover operation - the replicated desktops run from a replication destination (remote

NexentaStor )

Failback is the reverse operation – that returns the desktop pool to the original storage

Use RHA failover to perform maintenance operations on the ESXi hosts, e.g.: replace faulted

disks


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Detection of a faulted disk

Disk Replacement Automatically redeploys new (replacement) disk(s) into existing desktop

infrastructure, including:

Automatic creation of VMDKs on a replacement disk

RAID rebuilding (aka, resilvering)


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Aura Graph

NV4V allows to zoom-in to

the desktop level, for

performance management.

The Aura Graph shows

IOPS and bandwidth

distribution for all of the

desktops in a pool.


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External Storage NV4V supports virtual (VSA based) and external (bare metal

based) storage, multiple automated storage deployment options (including

all-flash). External storage can either be Nexenta’s own storage appliance or

a 3rd party NAS. For local storage the product automatically provisions and

deploys NexentaStors as VSAs – one Virtual Storage Appliance per VMware

ESXi host per pool of virtual desktop.


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External NexentaStor Appliance

Bare metal based storage for a desktop pool

Can be used to store remote backups for any

number of desktop pools for ESXi clusters


NexentaVSA for View bundles VDI management appliance and enterprise-

grade storage appliance, and provides for rapid VDI provisioning, local ZFS-based

snapshots and integrated remote replication, replicated HA (RHA), resource and

storage re-calibration to further optimize performance, I/O acceleration, performance

monitoring and graphics - both hypervisor view and storage appliance view, DTrace

based analytics, and more.

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NV4V is tightly integrated with VMware vSphere 5.1 and supports all

VMware View 5.1 features. Virtual desktop options include Microsoft Windows XP,

Vista, 7 and 8.

Conclusion


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