Supercharge Virtual Desktop Graphics with Cisco Solutions for HCI with NVIDIA Gpus, and Vmware Horizon

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With Microsoft’s ending of support for Windows 7 looming in January 2020, • Deliver outstanding migrating to Microsoft Windows 10 is essential. Each successive version user experience of Microsoft Windows has been graphically more intensive. For example, Windows 10 requires a 50 percent increase in graphics processing compared with • Your choice of Windows 7. And as history has shown, as both the Windows operating system hyperconverged and its Microsoft Office applications evolve, the need for a superior graphics infrastructure (HCI) solutions experience will continue to grow. • Reduce costs and While this provides an excellent user interface, Windows 10 may exceed your improve manageability, current desktop graphics capabilities. It’s time to consider Cisco virtual desktop security, and scalability solutions that can support both the computing and graphical needs of your users while also securing and simplifying your desktop IT department’s tasks. The • Radically simplify choice of Cisco HyperFlex™ systems or Cisco UCS® vSAN Ready Node Solutions, management of virtual both with NVIDIA graphics processors running VMware Horizon, delivers the desktops across superior graphics experience your users expect. your enterprise

Modern Apps increase Modern solutions NVIDIA graphic processors We offer a choice of two hyperconverged NVIDIA is virtualizing all GPU services. The NVIDIA GPU demands solutions, Cisco HyperFlex Systems and Cisco GRID virtual GPU allows multiple virtual desktops UCS vSAN Ready Node solutions. to share a single physical GPU or the assignment Common office applications of one or more physical GPUs can be dedicated also have increased graphics Cisco HyperFlex systems to a single virtual workstation. This allows you to power graphics-hungry operating systems and requirements when migrating Cisco HyperFlex systems with VMware Horizon applications and deliver an exceptional 7 combine computing, storage, and networking from Windows 7 to Windows 10 user experience. resources in a simplified, easy-to-use, all-in-one • Google Chrome from 36% to 49% platform. These systems bring the pay-as-you- • Microsoft Excel from 53% to 75% grow economics of the cloud to on-premises VMware Horizon virtual infrastructure, so you can gain new levels • Mozilla Firefox from 59% to 66% of agility, efficiency, and adaptability. With an VMware Horizon supports virtual Windows desktops, shared server desktop sessions, and • Microsoft PowerPoint integrated network fabric, GPU- and CPU-only nodes to supercharge graphics, powerful data applications through a single platform. You can from 64% to 91% optimization, and unified management, Cisco transform your static desktops into secure digital • Microsoft Outlook from 85% to 98% HyperFlex systems bring the full potential of workspaces that may be delivered on demand. It hyperconvergence to your desktop enables you to streamline management and easily (Read the Lakeside Software report) virtualization deployments. entitle end users through a single platform. It is a desktop and application delivery architecture that delivers desktops in seconds, reduces Cisco UCS vSAN ReadyNode solutions storage and operational costs with truly stateless For more information Based on Cisco UCS, Cisco UCS vSAN Ready desktops, and help ensure painless application Node is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform packaging and installation. Using a single platform • Cisco Hyperconverged Infrastructure that is fully integrated with VMware vSphere. based on the industry’s leading hypervisor, • VMware Horizon VMware vSAN aggregates locally attached disks VMware vSphere, VMware Horizon helps ensure of hosts that are members of a vSphere cluster that power users and designers have a graphics • NVIDIA Virtual GPU to create a distributed shared storage solution. experience that is equivalent to their experience VMware vSAN provides scale-out storage within when using dedicated hardware—delivered with a VMware Horizon 7 environment, enabling the cost-effectiveness that only GPU virtualization © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. a grow-as-you-go model, with scaling up by can provide. and other countries. To view a list of Cisco trademarks, go to this URL: www. cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property adding disk drives in each host, or with scaling of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a out by adding hosts to the cluster. partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. (1110R)

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