Hello everybody,
My name is Tony Sanchez (@TonySanchez_CTX) and I working on the WW alliances teams as principle solutions architect on the HP platform Moonshot concentrated.
Earlier I wrote called a blog on the first Citrix and HP Moonshot deal with AMD, the CS100 for Citrix XenDesktop. Since then, HP Moonshot and Citrix family has grown and now for the first time Citrix XenApp 7.5 is available on the HP Moonshot platform available! XenApp is driven by the new ProLiant M710 cartridge, which is driven by Intel E3 chipset with integrated Iris Pro Graphics!
Many may wonder what Moonshot is so unique and what makes XenApp so especially for this new hardware platform? These are big questions that I will answer in this blog. At the beginning of the year at Citrix Synergy 2014, we have shown that M710 ProLiant Moonshot first publicly with our partners HP and Intel. I If you do not see a chance to get the demo highly encourage you to check it out. There was a tremendous amount of interest from customers and partners since Synergy we have around the clock tests and the establishment of our new offer to allow a solution that today IsAvailable.
What is HP Moonshot is impressive and this new ProLiant is M710 cartridge as we can allow an out-of-the-box experience, the Intel Iris Pro Graphics to use -all users for each XenApp without a having to use hypervisor. This bare-metal architecture simplifies the setup time and the use of XenApp without platform on the underlying management waits for virtualized activated or a GPU. To ensure that all in mind, we take a look at the ProLiant M710 and its Moonshot components and also share with you, take care of the secret ingredient, the technical people know much about, scalability performance data for medium and large applications workloads.
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HP ProLiant M710 is the first Moonshot cartridge is powered by the Intel ® Xeon with current E3-1284Lv3 processor with integrated Iris Pro graphics P50 graphics. Also on board processing and integrated graphics, you can now deliver when needed easily graphics for demanding applications with Intel Iris Pro and for intensive number crunching leverage at speeds of up to 3.2GHz Turbo Boost Technology. Delivering graphics in the past for demanding applications or content that call for OpenGL, OpenCL and Web GL has always been a challenge when video cards were not available. Now with a solution such as the HP ProLiant Moonshot M710 for XenApp, a user if necessary the activation of graphics for these scenarios. In the past, it takes time to take down to plan server and place a GPU that allow the workload. subside M710 cartridge these challenges with a micro-server architecture as HP Moonshot and ProLiant.
With such a powerful and compact cassette is surprising how little use this cartridge for Watt. The ProLiant M710 cartridge requires only 19 watts of power, on the above what a regular appliance bulb uses so hopefully the light bulb goes on in your head before him, such as energy savings start to come into play. For those who want the all the data processor additional information on the Intel E3 chipset can be found here and Intel has a great blog about you should also read .
memory
Each ProLiant M710 is for a maximum total configuration of 32 GB of RAM per cartridge per slot 4 SODIMM slots with 8 GB DDR3L-10 low voltage memory enabled. While 32 GB RAM is a smaller amount of memory than a full sized blade, allows you to create micro XenApp instances, much like you would use in virtualized VM instance of XenApp, but without the hypervisor. Previous scalability tests conducted that show from Citrix that many virtual instances on XenApp on a hypervisor to 8GB to 32GB assigned virtual RAM, so 32 GB of physical RAM that. Not too far away from the hypervisor world Of course, may vary kilometers because some customers choose higher amounts of RAM, the need for holding applications, virtual, so that to keep it in mind. With the RAM allocated to each cartridge physically it is the design and scalability process simplified since there is no need to worry about overcommit virtual RAM and effects to be feared, it can cause.
More specifications soon provide information on the cartridge ProLiant M710, see here .
network
you have a need for speed? The ProLiant M710 cartridge delivers integrated 2x 10GB Mellanox ConnectX®-3 network adapters that support RDMA over Converged which also Ethernet or ROCE. These adapters can be seamlessly integrated into the Intel QM87 chipset on the ProLiant M710 cartridge. With two 10GB adapter, the contents of the transfer speed of user access, such as videos, high resolution pictures and large files instantly.
The HP Moonshot -45XGc module switch
The switch module HP 45XGc Moonshot is designed , high-speed, low-latency connectivity to offer and at the same time dramatically reduce cost and complexity to use solutions scale. The offer 45G Switch Module with the HP-4QSFP + Moonshot uplink module, 10GbE network connections to cartridge within the HP 1500 chassis Moonshot. Up to two switch modules are supported in each chassis. Several modules can the costs of TOR switches are stacked and eliminate offer in the event of a switch or uplink failure failover.
More details soon provide information on the 45XGc switch module can be found here.
Storage
Each ProLiant M710 is equipped with a Micron M500 enabled 0GB M.2 NGFF or Next Generation Form Factor NAND, drive for fast reads and writes for the operating systems, while only about 3.3 volt current. Each M.2 also uses the adaptive thermal throttling technology that reduce its temperature allows the drive when it is stressed. The maximum random read rate for M.2 is around 500 MB / s with the write at 130 MB / s and a total MT / s from 6.0Gb / s. The following screenshot shows a few SSD tests Blackmagic Design, Crystal and ATTO Disk benchmark applications.
scalability
is of course the question on everyone's mind is "how it scales"? When I collected from the HP Moonshot chassis manager and Perfmon counters mentioned earlier, the performance data, are critical if the entire chassis and XenApp user experience to analyze. Performing scalability tests are required to see how well a system loaded from a stationary state handles fully active state for XenApp. Each test data collected from public areas such as CPU, RAM, IOPS, network and natural energy. For this test, Citrix and HP industry standard tools of Login VSI Version 4.1 used with the creation of 2400 users to help synthetic test. We tried to ask 2400 people on Facebook if they would participate, but everyone was busy, so we test 2400 friends of our own ☺ created. There were two types of workloads used for the tests, the medium and the rich application workload. An explanation for each workload and applications are shown below. Each test was carried out using 1, 15, 30 and 45 cartridge to ensure loads that a partially fully charged chassis was used. From this blog we are only on the 1 and 45 cartridge scalability numbers. All of the information can soon for XenApp come in the technical whitepaper HP to find for Moonshot, which I encourage you to read.
to assess medium workload
This section is the medium workload profile used XenApp performance on HP with Moonshot HP ProLiant M710 Server Cartridges , The average workload is the standard workload in Login VSI. This workload emulated a medium knowledge worker with Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Internet Explorer, PDFs and Java / Freemind.
rich application workload
A separate application workload was developed XenApp performance on HP with Moonshot HP ProLiant M710 Server evaluate cartridges when rich and graphics-intensive applications are running. This workload performs GPU-advanced features of Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 and manipulate a 3D model in the eDrawings Viewer. The GPU advanced features of Adobe Photoshop include the Blur Gallery Smart Blur, Upscale, Sharpen, lighting effects, turning and Scrubby Zoom, just to name a few. The GPU uses OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) 2D and 3D graphics and OpenCL (Open Computing Language) for parallel processing acceleration
The rich application workload consists of three segments making and accelerate .:
• segment 1 is running OpenGL, OpenCL and zoom tests (Adobe) Photoshop CC 2014
• segment 2 is a 3D assembly file and turns opens, expands and breaks the file multiple times.
• Segment 3 uses Scrubby Zoom multiple zoom in and out of an image.
OpenGL test loads an image, light effects, and Smart Blur applies, rotates the image, scales the image, motion blur is considered and finally turns back lighting effects. The OpenCL test loads an image, and then apply the Blur, Iris Blur box and Tilt Blur filter from the Blur Gallery. The Zoom test loads an image, and then used Scrubby zoom, fast and from an image for 30 seconds. The image manipulation is a 17-megapixel, 48-MB TIF file. The 3D assembly file is a 63-component, 2-MB file EASM.
Single Cartridge performance data
Figure 4 shows the basic response time versus the number of user sessions on a single HP ProLiant M710 Server Cartridge in XenApp delivery group. A VSI max of 50 XenApp users for this test was achieved.
Figure 4.
Figure 8 shows that the number of user sessions increases linearly as the number of cartridges increases, remains nearly constant with reaction time. This shows a high degree of scalability in excess of 2300 XenApp users in one chassis!
9 characterizes processor utilization of the HP ProLiant Server M710 cartridge. If the number of sessions approaches 49 or 50, the CPU usage goes to 100 percent; if the user to log sessions to start, the CPU usage goes down.
10 power utilization of the HP ProLiant Server M710 Cartridge characterized. The maximum power on each cartridge less than 75 watts at peak load. But with the XenApp medium workload, the use of energy ~ 60 watts per cartridge at peak load.
12 main memory characterized using the HP ProLiant Server M710 cartridge. Note that 32 GB of memory is not saturated, even at peak workload (if the maximum number of runs of user sessions). Note also that 6-8 GB memory workload dates at the tips.
13 indicates the network use of HP ProLiant servers M710 cartridge. Note that the network create a bottleneck. Even at the peak workload (if the maximum number of runs of user sessions), the network utilization remains below 130 Mb / s. The ProLiant Server M710 cartridge has a 10 Gbps network.
rich application workload
16 to 19 figure show an indicative test in 15. Note mapping of each data point that the numbers do not match exactly, like figure includes 18 averages over several tests. Figure 20 to 25 Plot of system level power consumption parameter, GPU utilization, CPU utilization, memory usage, and disk operations-while running 100 percent rich application workload on the HP ProLiant server M710 cartridge.
Summary
In all these tests the performance was very predictable and the results scaled linearly, validation and trust provides that the HP Proliant M710 cartridge can process a variety of XenApp applications even up to intensive graphical applications that can be used if necessary the GPU. It is important to note that while a single chassis easily Moonshot 2,000 or more XenApp users can receive, can "Miles" vary so conduct your own tests will help you decide the scalability limits in your own environment. Of course, all these great exam and information that are not could be done without the help of some great guys at HP have provided you today.
I want Supreeth Venkatesh (@SupreethPSV) and Zach Bitting recognize (@Zachbitting) to work for their commitment to this project. You can reach over @HP_MSE the solutions team Moonshot at HP. We hope this blog informative and allows you to see that HP can deliver with XenApp Moonshot and impressive user experience break through economics. In my next blog we will the architecture building blocks for the infrastructure such as PVS, NetScaler, WDS, HP CMU and other key components. There has been a small step for man definitely, one giant leap for mankind with this new architecture so for longer stay tuned ...
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