Today we start our journey in Extreme Desktop Virtualization on Display at CeBIT 2010

Force Fusion to demonstrate over 10,000 virtual machines running simultaneously in
Hall 2 Stand C30

Hannover, March 02-06, 2010 - Force Fusion demonstrates their concept of Lean Computing at CeBIT 2010. Lean Computing reduces the required resources for desktop management to the bare minimum while increasing the flexibility for both user and the system administrator.

In a Lean Computing environment, the desktops consume only 2 gigabyte each. Force Fusion will show a density of 450+ virtual desktops per physical server. All applications, regardless of the amount of users, are only installed once. This has a huge impact on storage demand and flexibility within each organisation. With Lean Computing the users make use of no-maintenance clients which dramatically decreases helpdesk support.

During the event Force Fusion will demonstrate:
•    Ramp up from 0-1000 full performing virtual desktops in just minutes
•    Scheduled presence and deletion of virtual desktops in a large scale environment
•    A migration from MSOffice 2003 to MSOffice 2007 on 1000 desktops in 1 minute
•    User controlled self-support on clients
•    And attempt to run the highest density per server ever of Virtual Desktops.

All types of users can be connected, be it a task worker, office or power user. In a Lean Computing environment all users are connected to the virtual desktops with no-maintenance devices. The devices shown will be a converted diskless PC (Dinamiqs), the Pano Logic device (zero client with no CPU), and a PCoIP client for power users (Dell). If desired also a fat-client can be hooked up. All is still managed out of one Management console (DVS4VDI). The whole virtualization stack will be monitored by Veeam monitoring software.

 the Force Fusion Team welcomes you at The ForceFusion booth Hall 2 Stand C30 :

Today we end the day with this great numbers of 1178 VM's running on a whiptail and greenbyte storage solution.

It has been an exciting day today, we started of with deploying 150 virtual desktops extra on top of about 1200 running and that took us only 4 minutes. I was really impressed however the guys behind the keyboards said they could do better after some finetuning. They kept their promise and after a while after that they deployed 50 Virtual Desktops in 20 seconds. So that was 4 times faster.

We also had this one machine not wanting to to let us down and it showed 681 desktops in the morning. I took a screenshot while it was running a bit later 756 desktops; take a look at the configuration of that server:

They guys from veeam were having big smiles on their faces because they had never seen this before, especially as the processor load was only about 30 %.

Ofcourse we did not have 756 users available so they were not loaded with working users but the point we are making is that this a scalable solution. We are convinced you could have probably have 250 users on this platform. The strange part of it all is that we probably only use a 10th of the storage you would need compared to traditional virtual desktop environment. So this not only a scalable solution but far more cost effective then any other solution out there. As you can see we have connected the Virtual Desktops to zero clients needing no maintenance this means we do not need any maintenance on the client side. With these numbers the total cost of ownership drops dramatically. The nice part is that the desktops have become disposables which can easily be rebuild in a sec without any interference of a systemadministrator.

erikw

March 3rd, 2010

Finaly yesterday the disks for the Symmetric arrivied at our  booth(Force Fusion CeBIT 2010 Hall 2 C30).And directly installed by Jules Slootbeek (Corporate System Engineer).

The EMC Symmetrix V-Max is configured to support both a heavily shared application repository and many Virtual Machine Images. In order to provide all Virtual Machines the same level of access to the Application Repository, the Application Repository is configured on 1.6TB worth of 400GB Enterprise Flash Drives. This allows for a low read response time, and high IO/s.

By utilizing EMC’s Virtual Provisioning feature on this Symmetrix V-Max, we are able to harness the power of all 235 450GB 15k Fiber Channel Drives that provide the storage for our Virtual Machine images. When these devices are added to a Virtual Provisioning Pool, data written will be striped across the entire back-end of the Symmetrix, utilizing all available processing power to divide the workload across all available drives, eliminating hotspots.

For more information on Symmetrix V-Max, please visit www.emc.com.
 

Today The system goes online.  And start continue our journey for the groudbreaking results in extreme desktop virtualisation.
So far we have  4449 VM's on the system online.

So currently at the forcefusion booth (Hall 2 Stand C30) are deploying a nicely sized VirtualStorm environment as a demo for the Cebit, in co-operation with our gracious reseller host, ForceFusion (www.forcefusion.eu)
The hardware is pretty much overkill, as there is a VMax with 100TB FC and 2TB of EFD there, as well as a whiptail and a greenbytes storage system. A blade center with 11 current dual and quad socket quad core machines and nice big memory.
All of it tied together using an Arista 7148SX with 960Gbit/s backplane speed and low latency, 10gig sfps. (Thanks EMC, Intel, Consolidate-IT and VirtualStorm)

l solution is getting faster the more desktops we deploy. This is expected behaviour for larger VirtualStorm environments.
The bottlenecks right now are mostly VirtualCenter, Tomcat and MSSQL. Optimization scripts have allowed vCenter to go up to 4500 machines.
Depending on workload the switch pushes between 100 and 250 Gbit/s through the entire system.
The desktops that have been deployed together result in an application stack of 1125 TB of SWV managed applications.
755 deployed VMs on a dual socket quad core machine (not all running as there is insufficient memory :( )
Access to desktops occurs dinamically through one of the available Panologic devices.
Deployment time for 150 desktops: 3 minutes. (nice boxes... we may keep them...)
With two more days to go there will be some more numbers forthcoming. Also VeeAm has set up a full fledged monitoring environment to see exactly what is going on. So expect something from them as well.
Any questions, feel free to ask...
 

And for those wondering what some of the hosts-maps look like.... This one has 826 VMs on it...