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Make VDI Personal (VDI for Everyone) Virtualization Deep Dive Day 2011

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Presentation from Virtualization Deep Dive Day 2011 on making VDI successful for all use cases by Tom Rose, Chief Marketing Officer, Unidesk Corporation.

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Make VDI Personal(VDI for Everyone)

Virtualization Deep Dive Day 2011

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The Promise of Hosted Virtual DesktopsSimplify desktop management

More efficient, centralized monitoring,provisioning, patching, repair

Improve business agility Workers access desktops from any

office, home PC, or pad Deliver new apps faster

Reduce capital costs Thin clients use less power than PCs

(5W vs. 80W) and last 3-6 years longer

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VDI Reality: Limited to Narrow Use Cases

Call Centers

Offshore Development

Labs

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Why? Non-Persistent VDI Works Great! Desktop customizations thrown out after each useDesktop reverts to pristine stateThe few required apps can be delivered easilyStorage can be reduced through block-based cloningSingle shared image provides “patch-once” simplicity

Desktop Types0%

20%40%60%80%

100%

Non-PersistentPersistent

But they’re a relatively small % of total desktops

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Persistence Adds Cost & Complexity

Image/OS Mgmt

Storage Footprint

App Mgmt

Profile Mgmt

Client Mgmt

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What’s Needed: SIMPLICITY!Storage

Footprint reductionStorage Tiering

TCP based Replication

OS / ImageManagement

Single Image ManagementImage Sharing

Version Control &Rollback

Application Management

Any applicationVersioningRollback

User/Machine PersonalizationLocal profile utilized

ALL settings retainedData and Apps stored separately

User installed apps supported

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Unidesk Brings Layers to Persistent Desktops

C:

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Desktop Layering Innovation

Persistent:custom foreach user

Stateless:managedby IT

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Isolates O/S, Applications and User

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Create or Patch Underlying Layers Once

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Personalization Layer is Sustained

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Layer Versioning for Instant Repair/Rollback

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Understanding Layering Three types of layers

Personalization Application OS – Gold Image

Layers are assembled in priority order

Application layer priorities can be changed

Each layer stored in a different location

SIDApp GUID HKLM

FilesProfile Installed

Apps

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Two Patent-Pending Technologies

CacheCloud™

Windows: Read-Only

Personalization: R/W

App 1: Read-Only

App 2: Read-OnlyC:

Composite Virtualization™

Antivirus

Print Drivers

CacheCloud™

Windows: Read-Only

Personalization: R/W

Application 1: Read-Only

Application 2: Read-OnlyC:

Composite Virtualization™

Any Hypervisor

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Unidesk Confidential - All Rights Reserved

CachePoint VM

Storage Savings WITH User Personalization

Windows (shared)

Personalization 1

App 1 (shared)

App 2 (shared)

Personalization 2

Personalization 3

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UnideskManagement

ApplianceVirtual appliance serves GUI, maintains policy &

configurationAdministrator

UnideskMaster

CachePointVirtual appliance stores

common layers and installation machines

UnideskCachePoint

Virtual appliance stores only the layers need by

desktops it supports

Connection Broker

End Users

Existing Virtual Infrastructure & Storage

Unidesk Topology

Host1

Host2Personalization Layer Backups

Regular backups of desktop personalization

layers for recovery purposes.

Unidesk Virtual

DesktopsUnidesk-composited desktops hosted on

existing virtual infrastructure

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Market Validation from Trade Press …“Unidesk's ability to solve the major problems associated with VDI, while improving management capabilities, the end-user experience and protecting applications from corruption, makes it a useful product for administrators dealing with balky VDI implementations or looking to regain control of personalized virtual desktops.“

Unidesk Brings VDI Success, eWEEK

“The first wave of desktop virtualization adopters treated it the same way they did server virtualization. However, the desktop is a totally different beast. They are very personal, very customized and with an infinite number of applications ... hence Unidesk.”

Unidesk: A Companion to VDI, InformationWeek

“Unidesk’s true beauty is in its primary management benefits, including flexibility that gives both end users and IT organizationsthe freedom and control they seek -- along with 100% personalization, streamlined management and cost-efficient storage."

10 Cool Virtualization Vendors for 2011, Virtualization Review

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… Industry Leaders …

“Dynamic desktop composition represents an advance in client management technology and can help accelerate growth for virtual desktops where the ability to personalize the user experience is needed. Unidesk’s layering technology is an innovative example and we look forward to collaborating to enhance the virtual desktop experience for VMware View and VMware vSphere™ customers.”

- Scott Davis, CTO, Desktop Virtualization, VMware

“Solutions like Unidesk help drive growth for virtual desktops across the enterprise by giving users the ability to personalize their desktops to have the same or better experience than they had with a traditional PC. We look forward to continued collaboration with Unidesk to provide a powerful virtual desktop experience for our customers.”

- Harry Labana, CTO, Citrix Desktop Division

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… but, Most Importantly, Customers

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VDI’s Missing Management Piece

vSphere

Management

Infrastructure

Access View XenDesktop

Operating System

Applications

User (Persona)

StorageReduction

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Take the Next Step… If you have VDI, go to www.unidesk.com to download

Unidesk and try it for yourself If you’re new to VDI, start with Unidesk – all you need is:

Microsoft RDS/RDP (free with Win XP and Win 7) to access your desktops VMware vSphere with vCenter to host your desktops 100GB storage (local or SAN) to store your desktops Unidesk to provision and manage your desktops

Unidesk has a table. Stop by to see the demo!