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Virtual Desktops: New

Opportunities for Support, SoftwareUtilization, and Security

An overview of virtual desktop computing at the

Community College of Rhode Island and where the bestuse cases appear to be

Steve Vieira, Chief Information Officer



Community College of RI



What is VDI?

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

1. Breakdown the components of a personal computer

2. VDI moves the OS, Apps and Data to the data center

3. Access VDI through VMware View Clients

OS

HW

Data

App’s



Why Vmware View?

Flex-scaling

Roadmap

Hybrid cloud migration

Horizon Suite & vCloud Platform

Any device in a homogenous manner

Self-service catalog

Cannot look at VDI in a vacuum

Strategic play for CCRI



Realizing the Benefits of Desktop

Virtualization

VDI can help IT achieve these benefits across all types of desktops

and devices



Deployment Choices• Provides virtual machine-based, centralized desktops for individual users that can

be fully customized based on user profiles

• Allows users to perform specialized tasks that require administrator access totheir desktop

• Enables users to access their personalized desktop from any computer whileretaining the last saved state

PersonalVirtual

Desktop

• Provides virtual machine-based, centralized desktop based on a pool of virtualmachines that are shared by multiple users

• Allows users to perform standardized routine tasks and have access to commonapplications (such as Microsoft Office)

• Rolls back the state upon logoff to provide a “clean” desktop for the next user’ssession, but the previous user’s state can be saved offline

Pooled

Virtual

Desktop

User State Virtualization

(Folder Re-direction& roaming profile)

ApplicationVirtualization

PresentationVirtualization



Desktop strategy and the data

center

“We need to find ways to reduce costs in IT today but also build the

architecture to support tomorrow”



Pat Gelsinger, CEO VMware"The self-service catalogue is the standard way that people are

expecting to receive capabilities and applications from IT in the

future"

Extending beyond the

desktop operating

system to abstractedapplications delivered

homogeneously to any

device anywhere at any

time

In a position to leverage

the entire VMwareHorizon Workspace

platform



Software Defined Data Center

Compute – Servers & desktop

Storage – Agnostic, raw storage

Network – NSX – Layer 2 – Layer

3 in software stack

Management – automated

Comparative hybrid cloud

becomes ubiquitous

All about the applications

Automation based on rule setExpand virtual compute to all apps

Virtualize for speed and efficiency

Align with app demands agnosticallyPolicy driven control planes



Policies that follow

users, not devices

Self-Service Catalogs

vCloud Hybrid Service



Managed Services

Scale-out

Resiliency

Off-campus access

Student BYOD support

Virtualization to all of IT; Punctuated equilibrium

What we do with technology changes CCRI, hopefully

for the better

Next phase of VDI at CCRI



Questions?

Stephen A. Vieira

Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of IT

The Community College of Rhode Island

400 East Ave

Warwick, RI 02886

Desk: 401-825-2004

Cell: 508-965-8623

Email: [email protected]

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