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XenClient Business Development - EMEA

XenClient EnterpriseProduct Overview

Roger Baskerville

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• Customer challenges

• The solution: Citrix XenClient Enterprise

• Key benefits

• Key use cases

• Pricing & Licensing

• Competitive analysis

• Summary

Agenda

Customer Challenges

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Enterprise laptop users have unique requirements

• Work anywhere, anytime

• Outside the corporate firewall

• Connected/online or disconnected/offline

• High performance – no compromise

• Install apps they need

• Both worlds: Business + Personal

• Help employees to be safe

Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook

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IT faces challenges supporting enterprise laptop users

• Corporate data “walks out” with laptops

• Personalization – compromises security

policies & increase helpdesk tickets

• Hard to keep laptops up to date

• Backup policies difficult to enforce

• Long recovery times when devices fail

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Mobile users demand

performance &

flexibility

Admins need better security & control of

corporate laptops

Enterprise laptop users IT

Conflicting Needs?

The Solution: XenClient Enterprise

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Works even when the network doesn’t

Supports both desktops and laptops

Provides a fast, near-native PC experience

Supports USB peripherals

Dramatically simplifies laptop management

Part of FlexCast delivery model for any use

case

How XenClient Enterprise Helps

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• Type-1 bare metal hypervisor

XenClient Engine

• Multiple, concurrent VMs

• Each VM protected by firewall

• Full disk encryption option

• Better performance, stability and security

Personal

VM

Business

VM

x86 Hardware

Xen Hypervisor

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Centralized Management

How XenClient Enterprise Works

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Hypervisor

OS

Apps

Data

Runs below the operating system

to make PCs manageable, reliable, & secure

Secure Local ExecutionType-1 Client Hypervisor

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Provision or Patch 1000’s of PCs with a Click


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• Simplified Windows Image Deployment & Management

• Reduce costs by decreasing the number of helpdesk calls

• Improve productivity by delivering fast user updates

• Reduce risk by giving IT the ability to rollback updates

• Improve user experience by decreasing user disruptions

Key Benefits for IT administrators

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XenClient Enterprise Engine

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For less sophisticated users: 1 VM with

hypervisor hidden –looks just like Windows

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Centralized Shared Image Management

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Key Benefits

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Local

VHD

Persistent Local Data

(not backed up)

Page.sys, temporary internet files,

search indexes, .ost files

System

VHD

Update

Shared System Disk

One to many: patch once, publish many

User

VHD

Persistent User Data

Backed-up on server for

instant re-provisioning

Backup

Synchronizer

Snapshot

for backup

Differential Update

One-to-many from server

Patch

Shared Image

Rapid

Recovery

• Data protection – Simple & Transparent

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XenClient Enterprise SynchronizerWeb-based

management console

Granular policy controls

Role-based permissions for enterprise-class

management

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Increase addressable market• Management server supported on Hyper-V, XenServer, and vSphere

• Larger deployment - scalable to 10,000 endpoints

• Broader set of hardware support

• Intel and AMD CPUs with virtualization extensions

• Intel, ATI and nVidia graphics support

Increased customer value through enhanced management

capabilities• Deeper policy controls

• Allows VM image creation, editing on management server backend

• Remote image servers

• Enhanced integration with Active Directory

• Role-based administration

• Centrally increase virtual disk size of deployed VMs

What’s new – XenClient EnterpriseBrowse the AD hierarchy by

expanding Domain Controllers.

Assign a role, or select the

role to configure it.

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Key Benefits

• Rich set of policies control aspects of a VM, client and management server

• Expiration

• USB Filter

• Back-up

• Lockout

• OS Profile

• Engine

• Policy-based management

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Provisioning & Management

Security & Control

Enhanced User Experience

Key Capabilities


Rapid Recovery

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Rapid Recovery

• Transparent backupᵒ Snapshot based backup

ᵒ Only block-level delta changes

ᵒ Policy driven centralized controls

• Complete backupᵒ User data

ᵒ Profiles, preferences, settings

• Instant recoveryᵒ Fast re-provisioning

ᵒ User data, profiles, preferences, settings

ᵒ Recover or migrate a user in minutes

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Security and Control

• Secure client hypervisorᵒ Full VM isolationᵒ Snap-back for virus/malware recovery

• Full disk encryptionᵒ Full disk encryption using AES 256

• AES-NI instructions used if availableᵒ Centralized key recovery

• USB filteringᵒ By device typeᵒ By Virtual Machine

• Expiration, lockout, remote kill


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Enhanced User Experience

• Native Performance

ᵒ Fast-boot Chrome environment

ᵒ Instant switch between VMs

ᵒ Local PC performance

• Multiple VMs

ᵒ Shared Image & Custom ‘Personal’ VMs• Locked Down PC / Flexible Personal PC

ᵒ Windows Migrations• Windows 7 / XP

• Login convenience

ᵒ Single sign-on

ᵒ Option to hide hypervisor


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Demo Time!

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Ideal Solution to Address Users and IT Needs

• Centralized control with Xen based Type-1 client hypervisor

• Communication between backend and client over HTTPS

• Two main modes for image operationsᵒ Business as usual - Static = Customᵒ Layered single image - Dynamic = Shared

• Backup and recovery of user changes

• Security: Policy controls, remote wipe and disk encryption

• Virtual appliance for the backend

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Freedom Flexibility & high-performance

connected or disconnected

ControlSecurity and complete

centralized management

Win-Win-Win for the Business, Users, and IT

Bottom LineEmployee productivity, data

protection, and agility

Work better. Live better.

Back-up Slides

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Customer Spotlight

“NxTop will dramatically change the way I deploy and manage desktops, freeing up valuable IT resources and transforming my

operation from being reactive to proactive.” – Charles Miller, Town of Lincoln, MA

“We were seriously considering a server-based VDI solution, but when we tested NxTop we were amazed that we could run it without any

major incremental investments in server or network infrastructure.” – Nathan McBride, Executive Director of IT, AMAG Pharmaceuticals

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Customer Quotes

•Thanks to NxTop, computers are being deployed to our newest hospital at a

fraction of the time it would ordinarily take.

Ames Prentis, CEO, IVG Hospitals

•We were seriously considering a server-based VDI solution, but when we

tested NxTop we were amazed that we could run it without any major

incremental investments in server or network infrastructure.

•Nate McBride, Executive Director of IT, AMAG Pharmaceuticals

•NxTop is the first product I have ever tested where my users want to adopt

merely by word of mouth. We had employees at all levels literally begging to get

these systems.

•Alan Rabideau, CIO, Residential Finance Corporation

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XenClient Editions

XenClient XT

XenClient Enterprise

XenClient ExpressFor standalone use by IT Pros

Free high-performance bare metal local virtual desktops

for IT professionals and software developers/testers.

For enterprise use with XenDesktop

Virtual desktops to go with Enterprise-class bare metal

local virtual desktops designed to be paired with the

centralized delivery capabilities of XenDesktop.

For extreme security and isolation

Multi-level secure local virtual desktops designed to meet

the most extreme isolation, security, and performance

requirements for public sector customers.

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Key Benefits:

Central Office

Synchronizer

Remote Office

Synchronizer

• Caching Server– At Central Office

• Single view of Virtual Desktop Environment through Synchronizer

– At Remote Office• Images stores locally in remote office

• Local LAN operations for provisioning, backups and restoring

LANWAN

• Scalable for large deployment

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What’s the future

• Looking forward

Centralized Management

Synchronization

Advanced Policy Control

Enterprise Scalability

Multi Platform

Personal vDisk

Xen Hypervisor

Expanded Hardware

Extensibility

Extreme Security

HDX User Experience

Client Hypervisor

The best parts of each solution is coming together

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Architectural overview - Hypervisor

Hardware

Xen™ Hypervisor (Open Source)

… Services

Domain

(DomS)

Management

and Control

Domain

(Dom0)

• True Type-1 Hypervisor (No OS below the hypervisor layer)ᵒ Fully virtualized platformᵒ Supports wide range of business class PCsᵒ Full shared image support for Windows 7, XP & Vistaᵒ Linux supported as custom image or local install

Virtual Machine #1 Virtual Machine #2

Virtual HW

Windows XP

Applications

User Data

Virtual HW

Windows 7

Applications

User Data

Shared ImagePatch

BackupStore

ManagementServer

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Architectural overview – OS Management

Shared Image

Patch

Backup

Store

Update

System

VHD

User

VHD

Backup

Local

VHD

ManagementServer

Shared System DiskOne to many, patch once, publish many

Persistent User DataBacked-up on server for instant recovery

Persistent Local Data (no backup)Page.sys, temp files, indexes, .ost files

One to many

from server

Snapshot

For backup

Fast

Recovery

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Architectural overview – Management Server

Central Server

Console

Control

Repository

API

LDAP

SQL

HyperV

FileSystemFileSystem

ManagementServer

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HQ

Architectural overview – Hierarchical Mgmt

Management Server(Web/App)

SQL

Remote

Caching Server

WANSQL Server (1443)

HTTPS (443)

• Optimized for low-bandwidth/WAN environments• Intelligent caching of downloaded images• Efficient use of bandwidth between remote offices

• At Remote Office• Local LAN operations for publishing/backups• One copy of OS image and patches• Backups stored locally in Remote Office

• At Central Office• Single view of Environment through management UI

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