β Moonshot platform called the Converged System 100 for Hosted Desktops designed exclusively with AMD for Citrix XenDesktop.
β Moonshot 1500 platform is a 4.3U chassis
β ProLiant M700 Server cartridge for HDI, or Hosted Desktop Infrastructure, was designed for those key knowledge workers that need direct unfiltered access to hardware that has been traditionally managed by a hypervisor in the VDI world.
β users can be assured that they will not have to share any hardware resources with anyone else that could potentially impact others in a traditional VDI architecture.
β Inside the Moonshot chassis are 45 dedicated plug-n-play M700 server cartridges. Each M700 cartridge has 4 PC-on-a-Chip nodes or systems that are powered by the chassis. With 4 PC-on-a Chip nodes X 45 cartridges that gives us a total of 180 dedicated PCoC systems.
β Each node on a cartridge has an AMD Opteron X2150 APU (4) x86 core 1.5 GHz processor with AMD Radeon 8000 Series Graphics.
β The graphics and processor are a single piece of silicon die called an Accelerated Processing Unit or APU and offer 128 Radeon Cores up to 500 MHz.
β Each node has a dedicated 8GB of Enhanced ECC DDR3 PC3-12800 SDRAM at 16000 MHz speed for a total of 32GB per cartridge.
β For storage each cartridge has an integrated storage controller with a dedicated 32GB SANDISK iSSD per node located on the Mezzanine Storage Kit for a total of 128GB space. Each iSSD is rated to perform up to 400 IOPS
β Each node also has its own pair of 1GB Broadcom NICS allowing for a combined 2GB of dedicated network bandwidth per node.
β For node deployment the BIOS allows each node for a series of simple boot methods such as boot via local iSSD, boot via PXE, and boot one time via PXE or HDD. Also each of the m700 nodes have the capability to leverage Wake-On-LAN or WOL using a magic packet.
β There are two switches that are segmented as switch A and switch B. Each Wolff switch can provide up to 4 x 40GB of stackable uplinks per switch. These Wolff switches are fully manageable switches with Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing functionality as well as QoS, SNMP and SFLOW functions. With each node having a 2 dedicated 1GB NICS and each cartridge delivering 8GB of potential traffic,
β Each cartridge consumes an impressive low wattage amount of power that is typically 33 watts in active use, 20 watts at idle and a maximum of 63 watts. That's about 8 watts per node
β For an entire chassis then the total amount of power that these 45 cartridges or 180 nodes would consume on average is about 1500 watts
β Moonshot chassis fully loaded with 45 cartridges.
The HP Converged System 100 will only be supported by Citrix for those customers using XenDesktop 7.1 and Provisioning Services 7.1. While it's possible that previous versions of XenDesktop may work, the main feature that only XenDesktop 7.1 provides is the capability for the Standard VDA to leverage the native GPU for those Direct X enabled applications
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All-in-one compute, storage, and networking system that delivers desktops for Citrix XenDesktop non-persistent users.
While boosting TCO by up to 44 percent and lowering power requirements up to 63 percent. (HPs Claim)
Fast and easy integration with Citrix XenDesktop—complete within two hours
No SAN or hypervisor layer.
Support for 180 bare-metal hosted desktops in a single chassis.
The HP Converged System 100 for Hosted Desktops consists of a 4.3U HP Moonshot 1500 Chassis that holds up to 45 AMD based cartridges.
Each cartridge has four independent servers (PC-on-a-chip), with each server supporting one desktop. The dedicated GPU per-user enables PC-quality multimedia capabilities.
A complete solution including compute, storage, and networking, the HP Converged System 100 for Hosted Desktops hosts up to 180 desktops per chassis.
With no SAN or virtualization layer to install and manage, you will experience less complexity. And with pre-determined sizing and fewer workload images, desktop provisioning time is reduced.
Enables delivery to any endpoint device including Bring Your Own tablets, smartphones, PCs, Macs,and thin clients.
The hosted desktops are installed on bare-metal with no virtualization layer—resulting in less complexity. With this non-persistent deliver model, no SAN is needed for data storage.
Important benefits
• Improved security and compliance – By centralizing desktops, data, and applications in the data center
• Enhanced worker productivity – By supporting anywhere, anytime, any device, secure mobility
• Streamlined desktop support – By centrally managing all desktops with no business interruptions
• Improved business agility – By scaling and adapting to changes quickly with no service disruptions
