Hyper-converged infrastructure appliances can enable high end virtualized graphics for all of your users. With proper planning and configuring, the VxRail and Virtual SAN Ready Nodes with Horizon and GPU technology from NVIDIA provide enhanced user experiences. Even the most demanding CAD/CAM “power users” can realize multiple benefits from a virtualized desktop experience. Wyse endpoints complete the end-to-end environment with improved security and rich, rewarding user experiences. Learn best practices, planning, configuration and deployment recommendations to avoid implementation trials and tribulations in this technical session.

1. Achieving enhanced client
virtualization graphics on hyper-
converged infrastructures
A Technical Discussion
Gus Chavira
Alliance Director and Chief Architect for VMware Solutions
Carlos Isturiz
Sr. Business Development Manager - NVIDIA
Session MT58

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Why Dell with GPU and Hyper-convergence.
• Largest set of options for Hyper-convergence and GPU
Dell XC730-B7 with K2/M60
Dell VSAN FI R730 with K2/M60/M10*
Dell VSAN R730 with K2/M60/M10*
Dell R730 with K2/M60/M10*
Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse 2.0 R730 with K2/M60/M10*
• ISV Cert programs with major vendors
• Dell Pro Support and OEM VMware Software
• Fully engineered and RA supported platforms for full end to end solutions.
• Full partnership with VMware and NVIDIA to build best of breed solutions.
* M10 card available as customer install kit. Factory install coming in a few months.

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Real challenges most organizations face…
Valuable IP resides on every tower or mobile workstation
Each workstation and workspace needs to be individually managed
Scaling up or scaling down is inefficient and burdensome
Limited mobility and poor workflow as data needs to be shipped back &
forth

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Why centralize and virtualize workstation
resources?  Valuable IP resides in the data center and not
at the endpoints
 User workspaces can be managed centrally
freeing up valuable IT resources
 New users can be added or removed easily,
and infrastructure resources can be used more
efficiently
 Mobility is enhanced since applications and
data are centralized and can be accessed via
a variety of endpoints
 Software deployment to virtual workspaces
much easier to manage

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Why Hyper-converged for Graphics?
• Built on standard x86 servers on proven VSAN technology (Lower Risk; more choice)
• Distributed, scale-out architecture (Simplified deployment)
• Enterprise-level availability, scalability and performance (build in predicable way)
• Managed with familiar VMware tools (Easy to administrate)
• VSAN functionality included with Horizon Advanced and Enterprise bundles.
• Purchase a compute node at a time for storage/compute/memory. (JIT deployment model)
• Graphics consolidation in the datacenter in very dense footprint.
• Supports a “graphics for all” consideration. Mainstream graphics: MS Office animations, video,
etc.

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Not all Hyper-converged platforms are equal.
• Dell Hyper-convergence supports a wide variety of servers but due to GPU needs only R730
based nodes work for NVIDIA graphics
• NVIDIA K1, K2, M60, and M10 are double wide cards that require power harness’ and slots that
the R730 provides.
• 1100W power supplies required to push the power requirements of two double wide GPU cards.
• Thermals are managed and spec'd properly on R730 nodes
• CPU maximums are enforced on GPU (130W PROC max)
• R730s tested with VSAN.
• R630 1U server cannot handle double wide full height GPU cards
• R730XD with capability to handle 24 drives thermally cannot qualify to handle GPU cards

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What’s on the truck for Hyper-converged with
NVIDIA GPUs and Horizon.
PowerEdge R730 VSAN Node
Users per Appliance 4-32 (vGPU 2 with M60)
Hypervisor VMware ESXi 6
Desktop Virtualization Broker VMware Horizon 7
CUDA Support Yes (select vGPU profiles)
User OS Windows or 64-bit Linux
Graphics Architecture NVIDIA GRID vGPU
Graphics Cards (2) NVIDIA M60 or coming soon (2) NVIDIA M10
Protocol Support PCoIP or BLAST
Endpoints Recommended Zero Clients: Dell Wyse 5030 zero client or Dell Wyse 7030 zero client
AIO: Dell Wyse 5212 AIO
Thin Clients: Dell Wyse 5010 or Dell Wyse 7040 thin client
Maximum Display Resolutions 3 @ 2560x1600, 1 @ 4K (3840x2160)

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Hardware Specs
PowerEdge R730 VSAN Node for Horizon
CPU Options (with NVIDIA
GPU)
(2) Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 (20C, 2.2 GHz, 50M, 135W)
(2) Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 (8C, 3.2GHz, 25M, 135W)
Memory 128GB – 512GB DDR4 RAM
Graphics Cards (2) NVIDIA M60
Storage 4 Node VSAN (23.04TB/Node for AF or 16.8TB/Node for HY; RAW); 2 disk groups
AF-8: PERC HBA330 - 2 x 800GB SSD Cache Tier --- 12 x 1.92TB SSD Capacity Tier
HY-8: PERC H730 - 2 x 400GB SSD Cache Tier --- 14 x 1.2TB SAS Capacity Tier
Network Embedded 2 x Intel X520 DP 10Gb DA/SFP+
Embedded 2 x Intel I350 DP 1Gb Ethernet
Intel X520 DP 2 x 10Gb DA/SFP+ Server Adapter, LP
Remote management iDRAC8 Enterprise
Power 2 x 1100W PSUs
Hypervisor VMware vSphere on internal 16GB Dual SD

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Dell VXRAIL with GPU
• Announcing this week at Dell EMC World!
• Same strong plug-in Appliance format as previous VCE appliance but built on Dell PowerEdge
awarding winning hardware platform
• Optimized for VSAN, Horizon, and vGPU with built in management
• QoS eliminates noisy neighbors in multi-workload environments
• Protect and migrate applications with Recover Point for VMs
• R730 based platform alignment for GPU use.
• Previous VMware VSAN R730 engineering applicability to Dell VXRAIL

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Non Hyper-converged option
Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse
Precision Rack 7910 Based PowerEdge R730 Based
Compute Platform • Dell Precision Rack 7910 • Dell PowerEdge R730
CPU Options • (2) Intel Xeon E5-2643 v3 (6C, 3.4 GHz, 20M, 135W)
• (2) Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 (10C, 3.1GHz, 25M, 160W)
• (2) Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 (12C, 2.5 GHz, 30M, 120W)
• (2) Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 (20C, 2.2 GHz, 50M, 135W)
• (2) Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 (8C, 3.2GHz, 25M, 135W)
Memory Options • 128 GB – 512 GB DDR4 • 128 GB – 512 GB DDR4
Graphics Cards • (2) NVIDIA GRID K2A • (2) NVIDIA Tesla M60
Storage Options • (4 or 8) 1.2TB HDD@10K RAID 10
• (4 or 8) 400GB SSD SLC RAID 10
• Various SSD and HDD 15k
• Default of 4 x 800GB SSD
External Storage
Options (Optional)
• ATTO 16Gb Fibre Channel Card
• Emulex LightPulse LPE1200x FC8 HBA
• QLogic QLE2562 FC8 Dual Channel HBA
• Options available
• 10GB connectivity if iSCSI
Network • (1) Quad Port Intel X540 NDC (2x 10GbE, 2x 1GbE) • (1) Quad Port Intel X520 NDC (2x 10GbE, 2x 1GbE)

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Deploy quickly with the Quick Start Tool
• GUI-based tool that customers will
download and run
• Step by step process that reduces
complexity of deployment and
speeds up time to deploy
• 3 Steps to Configure:
– Host Connection
– Host Graphics Configuration
– Host Configuration
• Deploy in a few hours rather than
days or weeks
See a demo of the tool at:
https://youtu.be/LeyRsSsLDac

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Graphics protocols
• Dell supports customer choice and flexibility. BLAST EXTREME or PCoIP.
• Dell Wyse Thin Client support for either.
• VMware Horizon has feature parity for both protocols.
• Generally BLAST has reduced network traffic and ability to run in UDP or TCP (helpful for WAN),
and better CPU utilization when used with NVIDIA GPU cards such as M60 (hardware coding
offload)
• PCoIP is industry proven, better CPU utilization without GPU cards, high frame rate performance
with Dell Wyse Zero clients.

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Troubleshooting vGPU
• Ensure guest driver is matched with the host driver (ESX vGPU VIB driver). In other words from same zip file that
includes host and ESX drivers.
• Ensure SSH is running on ESX host for future troubleshooting.
• On ESX command line: esxcli software vib list | grep –i nvidia to find out vGPU VIB version
• On guest VM: NVIDIA GRID driver in Device Manager right-click and choose Properties-> Driver. Driver version
is the last 5 digits to find out client driver
• Verify host properly detects GPU cards:
ESX cmd line: nvidia-smi (if VMs are provisioned and bound to GPU card they show up at bottom)
nvidia-smi –q > nvidiasmicaputure.txt (shows more detail like host driver version,
vBIOS firmware, etc from GPU cards)
• Can’t start a vGPU VM: Verify power cables (all pins) are connected to the GRID cards. Enough power exists
through Server PCI bus that Dell QST sees the cards and configures things but not enough power to run/start the
VMs
• Guest driver doesn’t properly load. Ensure matched drivers. In addition, ensure Virtual Machine HW version is
upgraded or at to version 11 (VM must be powered down to update to version 11; very quick change)

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Reinstall the NVIDIA host driver or update it
• First you must put host in maintenance mode. From vSphere client right-click on VM and choose
“Enter Maintenance Mode”
• Run command to get full VIB name (which is first part of returned info) :
esxcli software vib list | grep –i nvidia
• Now remove VIB:
esxcli software vib remove --vibname=NVIDIA-vgx-VMware_ESXi_6.0_Host_Driver
• Now you can install either the same version or a newer version (remember to match the guest
drivers) with:
esxcli software vib install –v /full_path_to_vib/nvidia_vib_filename

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Guest NVIDIA driver doesn’t start after VM reset
(but works during a shutdown then startup)
• On each VM this occurs there is a simple fix. Simply power down VM in vSphere client.
• Right-click on VM and choose to upgrade machine HW version (from 10 to 11).
• Verify HW version is now 11 by going to VM. Right-click and choose Edit settings. At top right-
hand corner note version.
• Start up VM and .vmx file will automatically get updated to fix issue.
• Alternatively you can manually edit the .vmx file for the VM and change the parameter of
“VirtualHW.version = “10” to “11”. Save the change on powered off VM and restart VM. This will
update the HW version

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Helpful docs and info
• VSAN calculator: https://vsantco.vmware.com/vsan/SI/SIEV
• Dell VSAN RA (includes GPU, VXRail, AF):
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20442658
• EMC VCE VXRAIL (not Dell VXRAIL) RA: http://www.emc.com/collateral/technical-
documentation/h15303-vxrail-euc-view-sg.pdf?cmp=soc-cor-glbl-us-sprinklr-TWITTER--
EMCpartners-554666941
• Dell Horizon RA:
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/blueprints/blueprint_for_vdi/m/mediagallery/20442049

17. NVIDIA – Carlos Isturiz
Sr. Business Dev. Manager

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Every Enterprise Adopting GPU-Servers
For high performance computing, deep learning, data analytics, remote
workstations and now VDI and application virtualization

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DESIGNER 25M
POWER USER 200M
TASK WORKER 100M
KNOWLEDGE WORKER 400M
Source: Gartner & NVIDIA 2012 Research
Graphics intensive applications define addressable
market for application and client virtualization

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Graphics are required for more workloads
Today’s employees need access to a great user experience at all levels
Number of
applications that
require graphics
doubled since 2011
2x 56%
Over half of enterprise
users access at least
one graphics
accelerated app
50%
Majority of enterprises
will have started
Win10 deployments
by Jan 2017

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Graphics virtualization provides additional benefits to both user and IT
Simplified supportCentralized management Data security
ITbenefits
Increased performance Improved productivityMobility and flexibility
UserbenefitsDeliver value across the enterprise

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Tesla lineup for GRID
The most powerful data center GPUs targeted at graphics virtualization

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NVIDIA GRID products

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Value added through software updates
2015 2016 2017-Future
Features/Functionality
User Experience
2X Performance
Linux Desktops
Scalability
16:1 vGPU
User Experience
Protocol Acceleration
4K display ubiquitous
Scalability
Protocol Acceleration
Virtual Apps Edition
Management &
Monitoring
Health Monitoring
User Experience
CUDA/OGL/DX enhancements
Scalability
>16:1 vGPU
Management &
Monitoring
Provisioning & Mgmt
Migration & DRS
Cloud Service Provider
CSP Licensing
vGPU in CSP Hypervisors
THIS INFORMATION IS INTENDED TO OUTLINE OUR GENERAL PRODUCT DIRECTION. MANY OF THE PRODUCTS AND FEATURES DESCRIBED HEREIN REMAIN IN VARIOUS STAGES AND WILL BE OFFERED ON A WHEN-AND-IF-AVAILABLE BASIS. THIS ROADMAP DOES NOT CONSTITUTE
A COMMITMENT, PROMISE, OR LEGAL OBLIGATION AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF NVIDIA.
Ongoing innovation through software

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Software licensing options

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SUMS
Support, Updates, and Maintenance Subscription

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Example of price per concurrent VM
GRID K1 GRID K2 Tesla M10 Tesla M60
FirePro
S7150
PowerEdge R730 price w/ 2 GPUs $27,972 $29,588 $26,520 $33,972 $29,772
Max Number of Users per Server 64 32 128 64 64
vPC Perpetual CCU Price $62 $62
vPC SUMS CCU 1 Yr Price $22 $22
Total SW Licensing Price $10,752 $5,376
Per Concurrent User Price $437 $925 $291 $615 $465
From actual Dell quote for Higher Education Customer seeking maximum user density

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• Dell PowerEdge R730
• Dell PowerEdge C4130
• Dell PowerEdge T630
• Dell PowerEdge VRTX
• Dell Precision Rack 7910
• Dell Precision VDI Appliance for WYSE
• Dell XC Web-scale Converged Appliance
• Amulet Hotkey’s Dell M630 Blade
Dell delivers the broadest range of hosts for
NVIDIA GRID

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http://www.nvidia.com/trygrid
Instant access to NVIDIA GRID
on VMware vSphere and Horizon
Pre-installed apps such as
AutoCAD, SolidWorks, ArcGIS,
NX, etc.
HTML demos and HD videos
Test drive NVIDIA GRID today

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VIRTUALIZATION FOR ANY WORKLOAD
NVIDIA GRID delivers the right level of performance for any use case

31. Wyse thin and zero clients
for ultimate endpoint
performance and security

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Meet the Wyse client family
7000
Series Clients
High Performance &
Versatility
For power users who
demand the best
performance and
connectivity with a wide
range of peripherals.
5000
Series Clients
Mainstream
Performance
For knowledge workers
and power users with
demanding virtual
desktop applications.
3000
Series Clients
Value &
Flexibility
For task workers and
knowledge workers
running a broad variety
of business applications.

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Recommended Dell Wyse thin clients
Powerful, secure, easy to manage end points designed for high-end graphics
5000 series
Mainstream
Wyse 5000 series zero client for Citrix
• Ultra-secure with high performance
• Outstanding graphics rendering capability
Wyse 5030, 7030, and 5050 AIO PCoIP zero clients
• Excellent PCoIP performance for any use case
• Desktop or AIO form factors to choose from
7000 series
Highest
performance
Wyse 7000 series thin clients
• Top-performing thin clients for Citrix,
Microsoft, or VMware environments
• Virus-resistant Wyse ThinOS, Wyse
ThinLinux, or Windows Embedded with
Advanced Thread Protection (ATP)

34. • ThinOS and zero client endpoints are
virus resistant with no attack surface.
• Advanced multi-factor authentication
with contactless smart cards.
• Ability to lock down device protects
against data theft and introduction of
malware to the network.
• Support for rigorous government
security compliance standards: FIPS
140-2, IPv6, NIST BIOS, and TPM
Ultimate end-point
security.
Product shown is the Wyse 3030 thin client

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Dell Data Protection end-to-end security
Integrated data security solutions stopping 99% cyber attacks*
DDP | Endpoint Security Suite
Enterprise
For virtual and physical Windows desktops
• Full suite:
– Advanced threat prevention
– Hardened authentication
– Data-centric encryption
• For Windows-based systems:
– Physical PCs (Dell & non-Dell)
– Persistent virtual desktops (VMs)
• Also protects against BIOS attacks on select Dell
PCs
DDP | Advanced Threat Defense
For WES thin clients
• Traditional thin client protection
– Microsoft security patches
– Windows Defender
– Windows Firewall
– Write Filter
On-premise management console
• Single product:
Advanced threat
prevention
• For systems:
– WES thin clients
– Physical PCs
– Mac OS X systems
– Windows server
Cloud based management console

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