the Netherlands

Debunking the VMware EUC cloud

#Horizon

#HorizonCloud

Introduction

Dennis Sigmond▪ IT Architect & Managing Consultant

▪ Email: D.Sigmond@Loginconsultants.nl

▪ Twitter: @D_Sigmond

Why?

Cost Model

Flexible / Agile Innovation

Operations

The route to the Cloud

▪ Where to start?

▪ Which Platform to use?

▪ How to integrate?

▪ What do I have to manage?

The VMware EUC Cloud Options (VDI/RDSH)

Horizon Cloud Hosted

▪ Full stack on IBM Softlayer DC

▪ Private Cloud

▪ VMware Managed infra

▪ Contract for 1 – 36 month

Hardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon Cloud

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

Customer

Horizon Cloud Hosted - Architecture

Horizon Cloud on Azure

▪ Cloud Control plane▪ USA, Australia or Germany

▪ BYO Azure subscription

▪ Public Cloud

▪ Pay-As-You-Go for Azure

▪ Fast to implement

▪ Consider vendor ManagementHardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon Cloud

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

Customer

Horizon Cloud on Azure - Architecture

End Users

Express Route orVPN / MPLS etc.

On-Premises (optional)

System Admin

Customer URL

Cloud.horizon.vmware.com

Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS

▪ Full Control on Horizon▪ Subscription based (Apps or VDI)

▪ SDDC as a Service

▪ VMware Cloud foundation▪ vSphere

▪ vCenter

▪ vSAN

▪ NSX

▪ 3 nodes minimum

Hardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon 7

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

Customer

Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS - Architecture

AWS Global InfrastructureCustomer data Center

vSphere vSAN

On-prem NativeAWS services

VMware CloudTM on AWSPowered by VMware Cloud Foundation

End user

VMware Horizon® 7

NSX

VMware Horizon® 7

vCenter vCenterCPA

Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA)

On-Premises vSphere

Horizon 7

VMC

Horizon 7

InterpodCommunication

Global Data Layer

Horizon 7 (Cloud Connector )

▪ Cloud Control plane▪ USA, Australia or Germany

▪ Subscription Based License

▪ On-Premises Appliance

▪ Customer DC / AWS for workloads▪ Pair Cloud Connector with

Horizon 7 pod

Hardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

Customer

Horizon 7 Cloud Connector- Architecture

CPA

Horizon 7On-Premises

Horizon 7 Cloud Connector

Horizon Cloud Management Console

Cloud.horizon.vmware.com

Horizon 7 Cloud Control plane

CPA

Horizon 7On-Premises

Horizon 7 Cloud Connector

Horizon Cloud Management Console

Cloud.horizon.vmware.com

CPA

Horizon Cloud on Azure NodeCPA

Horizon 7

Horizon 7 Cloud Connector

Hardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon Cloud

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

Hardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon Cloud

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

Hardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon 7

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

Hardware

Virtualization Layer

Horizon

VDI / RDSH / Apps

Datacenter

The key Differences

Item Hosted Azure AWS Hybrid

Instant Clones ● ○ ● ●

vGPU Desktops ● ● ○ ●

App Volumes Support ○ ○ ● ●

Auto Updates of infrastructure ● ● ○ ○

Auth – RSA Secure ID support ● ○ ● ●

▪ Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS ≠ DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service)

Pricing Structure

Horizon Cloud Hosted

• Horizon Cloud license

• Capacity

• No Egress charges

Horizon Cloud on Azure

• Horizon Cloud license

• BYO Microsoft Horizon Cloud Azure subscription

• Egress Charge

Horizon on VMC on AWS

• Horizon Subscription

• VMware cloud

capacity (SDDC)• Egress Charge

Horizon 7

• Horizon Perpetual

/ Horizon Subscription

• BYO On-Premises

License / ServiceCapacity / Compute

VMware DC Azure

Core lic-50 user

Core lic-50 user

Desktop (VDI) App (RDS)

Add-on 10 user

+ +

NamedConcurrent

Add-on 10 user

+Core lic-50

user

Core lic-50 user

Desktop (VDI) App (RDS)

Add-on 10 user

+ +Add-on 10

user

+

SDC units

1cpu/2gb/30gb

Value desktop

Professional desktop

Premium desktop

Performance desktop

Hosted App server

1

2

4

8

8 F2 D3_v2 A4_v2 A4_v2

Av2 Series

Dv3 Series

Ev3 Series

F Series

Dv2 Series

Dv3 Series

Ev3 Series

NV Series

1 month 12 months24 months36 months

1 month 12 months24 months36 months

1 month 12 months24 months36 months

Pay as you GoReserved Instances

Core lic-50 user

Core lic-50 user

Desktop (VDI) App (RDS)

Add-on 10 user

+ +Add-on 10

user

+

Horizon 7 on VMC

1 month 12 months24 months36 months

1 Node

3 nodes

4+ nodesOn-Demand12 months36 months

Scalability

Horizon Cloud Hosted

• 20K+ per location

Horizon Cloud on Azure

• 2000 desktop VMs and farm server VMs per subscription (Azure Limit)

• 2,000 concurrent connected sessions per node.

Horizon on VMC on AWS

• 2000 per pod

• 25 pods

• 5 sites

Horizon 7

• 250,000 total sessions

• 50 pods

• 10,000 sessions per pod

• 15 sites

• 7 Connection Server instances per pod

• 350 total Connection Server instances

Product Families

Special WorkloadsCapacity Flexibility

Disaster Recovery

Application Locality

High Availability

Datacenter Expansion

Use Cases

Bringing it all together

▪ IDM SaaS included▪ [name].vmwareidentity.com

▪ [name].vmwareidentity.eu

▪ Connector needed

Thanks!