Post on 22-May-2020
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Modern Apps in the Digital Workplace
Application GPU Demand Between Windows 7 and Windows 10
*Percent of time consuming GPU comparing Windows 7 to Windows 10 (DirectX or OpenGL)
Applications that require graphics has doubled since 2012
Over half of enterprise users access at least one graphics accelerated app
36% 59% 52% 63% 84%
Browser % Increase Microsoft Office % Increase
https://www.lakesidesoftware.com/sites/default/files/Elevating_User_Experience_through_GPU_Acceleration.pdf
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Windows 10 vGPU Comparison
CPU usage normalized at ~28% with vGPU CPU usage normalized at ~96% without vGPU
▪ Windows 10 Build 1607▪ 2x vCPUs▪ 4GPU RAM
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UCS M5 Blade & Rack Servers
B480 M5
B200 M5
C480 M5
C240 M5
C220 M5
CQ3’17CQ3’17
M5 differentiators:• Dual Intel® Xeon® Processor
Scalable Family processors (up to
28 cores)
• Up to 2 SFF + 2 M.2/SD (SATA/SAS
HDD/SSD, PCIe NVMe)
• Dual GPU support
M5 differentiators:• Quad Intel® Xeon® Processor
Scalable Family processors (up
to 28 cores)
• Up to 4 SFF + 2 x M.2/SD
• SATA/SAS HDD/SSD, PCIe
NVMe
• Quad GPU support
M5 differentiators:• Dual Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family processors
(up to 28 cores)
• Up to 10 SFF drive bays
• Up to 10 NVMe drive bays
• Dual PCI GPU*
• M.2 support
M5 differentiators:• Dual Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family processors
(up to 28 cores)
• Centralized mgmt for RAID for all drives
• Up to 6 PCI GPU*
• Up to 10 NVMe drive bays
• 10G LOM
• M.2 support
M5 differentiators:• Quad Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family processors
(up to 28 cores)
• Up to 24 front facing drives (24 can support NVMe*)
• Up to 8 top accessible drives (8 can support NVMe**)
• Up to 6 PCIe GPUs
• Up to 12 PCIe slots
• M.2 support
Highest Performance UCS 5th Gen Platforms designed for Intensive Enterprise Workloads
UCS
C240 M5
S
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
XX
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
821 76543
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
14131211109 201918171615 24232221
! ResetConsole
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
UCS B200 M5
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
! ResetConsole
UCS-HD300G10K12G
12Gbps 10K SAS
300GB
! UCS-HD300G10K12G
12Gbps 10K SAS
300GB
!
M4 SRVN
UCS-HD300G10K12G
12Gbps 10K SAS
300GB
!UCS-HD300G10K12G
12Gbps 10K SAS
300GB
!
UCS
C220 M5
2 T
BH
D2T
7K
L6G
N
SA
TA
HD
D
X
2 T
BH
D2T
7K
L6G
N
SA
TA
HD
D
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1
6
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2
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3
9
4
10
5
2 T
BH
D2T
7K
L6G
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SA
TA
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D
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D2T
7K
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TA
HD
D
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ME
SS
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80
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BN
VM
EH
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800
2 T
BH
D2T
7K
L6G
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SA
TA
HD
D
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BH
D2T
7K
L6G
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SA
TA
HD
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D2T
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SA
TA
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D2T
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TA
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D
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ME
SS
D
80
0 G
BN
VM
EH
WH
800
UCS
C480 M5
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
XX
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
XX
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
ReW ritabl eRECORDER
M U L T IDVD+ReWritable
S
X
X
M5 differentiators:• Dual Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable
Family processors (up to 28 cores)
• Centralized mgmt for RAID for all drives
• Up to 6 PCI GPU*
• Up to 10 NVMe drive bays
• 10G LOM
• M.2 support
*using HHSW GPU
HX240c M5
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NVIDIA TESLA GPU QUICK REFERENCE
MODEL M10 M60 P40 T4 P6
GPU 4 NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs 2 NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs 1 NVIDIA Pascal GPU 1 NVIDIA Pascal GPU 1 NVIDIA Pascal GPU
CUDA Cores2,560
(640 per GPU)
4,096
(2,048 per GPU)3,840 2,560 2,048
Memory Size32 GB GDDR5
(8 GB per GPU)
16 GB GDDR5
(8 GB per GPU)24 GB GDDR5 16 GB GDDR5 16 GB GDDR5
Max vGPU instances
64
(512 MB Profile)
32
(512 MB Profile)
24
(1 GB Profile)
16
(1GB Profile)
16
(1 GB Profile)
vGPU Profiles0.5 GB, 1 GB, 2 GB,
4 GB, 8 GB
0.5 GB, 1 GB, 2 GB,
4 GB, 8 GB
1 GB, 2 GB, 3 GB, 4 GB,
6 GB, 8 GB, 12 GB, 24 GB
1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB,
16GB
1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB,
8 GB, 16 GB
Form FactorPCIe 3.0 Dual Slot
(rack servers)
PCIe 3.0 Dual Slot
(rack servers)
PCIe 3.0 Dual Slot
(rack servers)
PCIe 3.0 Single Slot
(rack servers)
MXM
(blade servers)
Power 225W 240W / 300W (225W opt) 250W 50W/75W 90W (70W opt)
Thermal passive active / passive passive passive bare board
Win 10 USER DENSITYOptimized
BLADEOptimized
PERFORMANCEOptimized
M10, M60, T4, P40 and P6 Recommended for VDI
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Blade Based GPU Accelerated VDI Scenarios CQ3’17CQ3’17
User Type 2: Knowledge Workers
• 2 vCPUs
• 4-8 GB of RAM
• 1GB of Frame Buffer
• vPC license for each user
Comparing RDSH, Virtual PC, and Virtual Workstation Scenarios
User Type 3: Designers
• 5 vCPUs
• 48 GB of RAM
• 2GB of Frame Buffer
• QvDWS license for each user
User Type 4: Renderers
• 1 Dedicated CPU
• 64 GB of RAM
• 4GB of Frame Buffer
• QvDWS license for each user
B200 M5
User Type 1: RDSH
• 8 vCPUs
• 24-36 GB of RAM
• 8GB of Frame Buffer
• vApps license for each user
! ResetConsole
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
UCS B200 M5
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
2x P6s per
Blade
…25-30 users per VM,120 users per blade
B200 M5
! ResetConsole
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
UCS B200 M5
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
2x P6s per
Blade
…32 users per blade
B200 M5
! ResetConsole
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
UCS B200 M5
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
2x P6s per
Blade
…16 users per blade
B200 M5
! ResetConsole
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
UCS B200 M5
UCS-HD300G10L12G126bps 10K SAS300GB
!
2x P6s per
Blade
…2-4 users per blade
Density Cost
AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Solidworks,
NX, Creo, Catia, Adobe CC Photoshop,
Illustrator
Schlumberger, Halliburton,
DeltaGen, Catia Live Rendering
Windows 10/Office 2016/Web-based
Applications/Web-based Training
Server 2016/RDSH/Published
Applications/Session Based User
Experience
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Rack Based GPU Accelerated VDI ScenariosCQ3’17
CQ3’17
User Type 2: Knowledge Workers• 2 vCPUs
• 4-8 GB of RAM
• 1GB of Frame Buffer
• vPC license for each user
Comparing RDSH, Virtual PC, and Virtual Workstation Scenarios
User Type 3: Designers• 5 vCPUs
• 48 GB of RAM
• 2GB of Frame Buffer
• QvDWS license for each user
User Type 4: Renderers• 1-2 Dedicated CPU
• 32 GB of RAM
• 4GB of Frame Buffer
• QvDWS license for each user
C240 M5 or HX240c M5
User Type 1: RDSH• 8 vCPUs
• 24-36 GB of RAM
• 8GB of Frame Buffer
• vApps license for each user
2x M10s per
C240
…25-30x users per VM,240 users per host
…64 users per host
UCS
C240 M5
S
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
XX
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
821 76543
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
14131211109 201918171615 24232221
C240 M5 or HX240c M5
2x M10s per
C240
UCS
C240 M5
S
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
XX
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
821 76543
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
14131211109 201918171615 24232221
C240 M5 or HX240c M5
6x P4s per
C240
UCS
C240 M5
S
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
XX
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
821 76543
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
14131211109 201918171615 24232221
…24 users per host
C240 M5 or HX240c M5
2x V100s
per C240
UCS
C240 M5
S
X
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
XX
NVME SSD
800 GBNVMEHWH800
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
821 76543
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
2 TBHD2T7KL6GN
SATA HDD
X
14131211109 201918171615 24232221
…2-4 users per host
Density Cost
AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Solidworks,
NX, Creo, Catia, Adobe CC Photoshop,
Illustrator
Schlumberger, Halliburton,
DeltaGen, Catia Live Rendering
Windows 10/Office 2016/Web-based
Applications/Web-based Training
Server 2016/RDSH/Published
Applications/Session Based User
Experience
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Cisco dCloud Overviewhttps://dcloud.cisco.com
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UCS
Manager
vCenter Hyperflex
Connect2 x Citrix Cloud
Connectors
Active Directory Virtual Desktop
VDAs
HTTPS (443)
dcloud.cloud.comCitrix Workspace
App
On-Premises
InfrastructureNvidia Tesla
M10 GPU
Virtual Apps and Desktops Service
Cisco dCloud Overview
https://dcloud.cisco.com
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Cisco VDI CVD Toolhttp://Cisco.com/go/vdi-cvd
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Resources & Takeaways
▪ Cisco dCloud: https://dcloud.cisco.com
▪ Cisco VDI Landing Page: https://cisco.com/go/vdi
▪ Cisco VDI CVD Navigator: https://cisco.com/go/vdi-cvd
▪ Cisco HyperFlex Landing Page: https://cisco.com/go/hx
▪ Cisco DC YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf5TWe6DjB4xsJ1bWjpoY_w