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October 25, 2012

Tech Talk: What’s New in Citrix VDI-in-a-Box?Nigel Simpson, Citrix

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October 25, 2012

Tech Talk: What’s New in Citrix VDI-in-a-Box?Nigel Simpson, Citrix

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VDI-in-a-Box basics


Virtualized desktops for less than $500 per user

• An affordable turnkey software appliance providing high-performance, high-definition personalized virtual desktops

ᵒ All-in-one VDI – runs on off-the-shelf servers

ᵒ Simple to Deploy – in less than an hour by Windows® Admins

ᵒ Simple to Use – any time, anywhere, any device access

ᵒ Simple to Manage – single point-and-click web-based console

ᵒ Simple to Scale – on-demand, just add more off-the-shelf servers

80160240240 with HA

Single Point of ManagementAppears as a single GRID entity


Eliminates 60% of the infrastructure

• Datacenter infrastructure• Multiple components• Many different IT skillsets• Systems Integration

• Windows infrastructure• Commodity servers• Windows Admin• All-in-one, built-in

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VirtualVirtualDesktop Desktop

VirtualVirtualDesktop Desktop

VirtualDesktop

VirtualDesktop

VDI-in-a-BoxVDI-in-a-Box

VDI-in-a-Box – Simple, Affordable All-in-one

All key features are built-in:Connection brokeringDynamic provisioningHigh-availabilityLoad balancingOn-demand scalingCitrix HDX user experienceLinked clonesPersonal and pooled desktops

Open architecture supporting:•Citrix XenServer•Microsoft Hyper-V•VMware vSphere (ESXi)

Access from virtually any device viaCitrix Receiver

VDI-in-a-BoxVDI-in-a-Box

vdiManagervdiManager

Logical Shared StorageLogical Shared Storage

User User ManagementManagement

Dynamic Desktop Dynamic Desktop Provisioning & Provisioning & ManagementManagement

Template Template ManagementManagement

High-Availability Grid EngineHigh-Availability Grid Engine

Connection Connection BrokerBroker

Load Load BalancerBalancer

HypervisorHypervisor


VDI-in-a-Box XenServer User Profile Manager

ActiveDirectory(optional)Local Knowledge

Worker

User Data

NetScaler

Access Gateway

Local TaskWorker

Remote TaskWorker

Works with

VDI-in-a-Box works with the Citrix Portfolio • Included/built-in:

• vdiManager• Full HDX stack• Receiver• Profile Management• XenServer

• Works with…• NetScaler/ Access

Gateway• XenApp• GoToAssist• ShareFile

GoToAssistvdiManager

What’s new in VDI-in-a-Box 5.1


VDI-in-a-Box 5.1 Feature Focus Areas

Personal Virtual Desktops


Personal Virtual Desktops Pooled and Personal desktops that cost less than PCs

• Personal desktopsᵒ Golden image + Personal vDisk

• Enables full user personalization while leveraging a common golden image

Golden image

Pooled desktops

Personal virtual desktops

Pooled desktops

PVD

PVD contains•User installed Applications•User Data•User Preferences

• Reduce management overhead by supporting personal and pooled desktops from a few golden images

• Eliminate 60% of image storage costs with personalized desktops that use single instance management

Business Benefit Single Instance Management


User GroupsMultiple images with separate images for tailored applications

User

UserUser

User User

User

UserUser


VDI-in-a-Box 5.1 w/Personal vDisk User GroupSingle image with tailored applications based on user need

User Flexibility – IT Efficiency

User

User User

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User User

User

High Availability

Performance

Scalability


High Availability, Performance, and Scalability

• High Availability:ᵒ Grid-wide virtual IP addressᵒ Active Directory failover

• Performance:ᵒ Dual datastoresᵒ Optimization for Google Earth

• Scalability:ᵒ Certified for 2,000 desktops


Grid-wide virtual IP address

• End-to-end High-Availability without a load balancerᵒ No need for Round Robin DNS or Layer 4 switch

• Access the grid via a single IP address

• Front end load balancing

• Highly available connection to the grid from any endpoint without a load balancer• With all three access methods (not just the Java client), the endpoint can connect to the grid using one single IP address• Same IP address across physical server failures

Business Benefit

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192.1.1.1

192.1.1.3

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PrimaryActive Directory

Server

RedundantActive Directory

Server

Active Directory (AD) failover

• Redundancy in AD servers

• Failover to next AD server on the list

VDI-in-a-Box Grid

• Extend high availability to work with your HA Active Directory

Business Benefit


Dual datastores

• Reduce IOPS bottleneck

• Approachᵒ Store golden images & personal desktops on SASᵒ Store pooled desktop instances on SSD

Storage on a server

SAS Drive holds the golden images & personal desktops

SSD holds the desktop instances created from the golden images

• Increases density… more desktops per server• Improves I/O performance

Business Benefit


Without multiple datastore


With multiple datastore


Google Earth Optimization

• Better image quality with Google Earth application

• Used in Education vertical

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• No GPU required on the server side to provide high-res graphics rendered in Google Earth

Business Benefit

Ease of Use

Flexibility

Compliance


Ease of Use, Flexibility, and Compliance

• Ease of Use and Flexibilityᵒ Touchless Desktop Agentᵒ Fully specified computer namesᵒ Search AD for users and groupsᵒ Multiple virtual CPUs

• Complianceᵒ Separate user and computer domainsᵒ NTP syncᵒ VDI-in-a-Box logs in Syslog format


Simpler management with Touchless DTagent

• v5.0ᵒ Install DTagent on all new golden

imagesᵒ Update DTagent on all existing golden

images when updating to new VDI-in-a-Box

ᵒ Desktop instances are auto updated

• With v5.1ᵒ DTagent auto installed on golden

imagesᵒ DTagent auto updated on existing

golden images when updating to new VDI-in-a-Box

ᵒ Desktop instances are auto updated

DTagentDTagent

Golden imageGolden image

• Reduction in management when creating images• Reduction in maintenance when upgrading VDI-in-a-Box• Easier to deploy and even easier to stay current with latest release

Business Benefit


Fully specified computer names

• Prefix + Suffix

• Specify the complete name of virtual desktops

Call me Brian

• Can run automation scripts and other software that require known computer names

Business Benefit


Search Active Directory for users and groups

• Enter partial name of a user or a group

• vdiManager searches AD for matching names

• Quicker and easier to set up users and groups

Business Benefit


Multiple virtual CPUs

• Specify number of virtual CPUs per virtual desktop

• At both image level and template level

• Support applications that run on multiple CPUs (e.g. Google Earth)

Business Benefit


Separate User and Computer Domains

• Place users and the computer in different domains

• Enables strict security by placing users and computers in different Windows domains

• Helps companies achieve compliance with industry specific standards such as PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley to name a few

Business Benefit


Synchronize server times with NTP server

• Ensures all servers have the same time

• Consistent timestamp in logs

Business Benefit


Logs in syslog format

• Consistently formatted logs in Syslog format

Syslog manager

Event logs

Task logs

Audit logs• All logs including audit logs are in syslog format,

enabling 3rd party analysis and reporting tools

Business Benefit

Windows Support


Support for Windows

• Windows 8 Desktops

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Desktops

• Remote Desktop Gateway

• Help customers stay up-to-date with Windows technologies• Early access to Windows 8• Support for Win Server 2008 allows service providers to offer desktops as a service

Business Benefit


Other Citrix Certifications

• HDX 5.6 FP1

• Citrix Receivers

• NetScaler Access Gateway

• Citrix Profile Management


Summary of new features in v5.1

• PVD ‘Personal desktops for less than the cost of a PC’

• Multiple Datastore support on Hyper-V and ESX

• Provisioning of Windows 8 / Windows 2008 R2 desktops

• Windows As A Service with VDI-in-a-Box

• Touch less agent installation

• Image Optimization, multiple vCPU support for all hypervisors in UI

• AD Failover

• GRID wide IP

• RDP Gateway support

• NTP Server

• Numerous UI improvements to make ViaB management even simpler


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october 25, 2012 tech talk: whats new in citrix vdi-in-a-box? nigel simpson, citrix important –...

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