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Presenters Andrew Wood (Gilwood CS Ltd)
Keith Girt (eG Innovations UK Ltd)
Desktop Virtualisation Choices Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI-In-A-Box - How to Decide?
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Citrix Desktop Virtualisation Choices: XenDesktop, XenApp, VDI-in-a-Box. How to Decide ?
Andrew Wood CEO Gilwood CS Ltd Andrew.Wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk Twitter: @gilwood_cs www.gilwood-cs.co.uk
Is this just another smackdown?
Poll
Your goals for desktop virtualisation?
Assessment is key for any transformation
Any device, anywhere
High-Def user view including 3D
Any Windows, Web or SaaS App
Deploy virtual desktops and apps for any use case
Open, scalable and proven technology
Single-instance management
Data security and access control
XenServer virtualization platform
XenServer virtualization platform
XenServer virtualization platform
Features by edition
Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop
High Definition user experience
Any device, anywhere
Departmental Apps via Personal vDisk
Remote Access via Access Gateway
Help desk support via Desktop Director
Flexcast Shared Desktops via XenApp
Flexcast Local Desktop via XenClient
Fine grained configuration & CLI
Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop
High Definition user experience
Any device, anywhere
Departmental Apps via Personal vDisk
Remote Access via Access Gateway
Help desk support via Desktop Director
Fine grained configuration & CLI
Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop
High Definition user experience
Any device, anywhere
Departmental Apps via Personal vDisk
Remote Access via Access Gateway
Help desk support via Desktop Director
Fine grained configuration & CLI
Windows Apps on demand via XenApp
Flexcast Shared Desktops via XenApp
Flexcast Local Desktop via XenClient
Windows Apps on demand via XenApp
Single Sign on For Apps& Data
WAN Optimisation via Branch Repeater
Monitoring via Edgesight
Questions to ask of XenDesktop 5
XenApp
Any device, anywhere
High-Def user view including 3D
Any Windows, Web or SaaS App
Deploy virtual desktops and apps for any use case
Open, scalable and proven technology
Single-instance management
Data security and access control
XenApp 6.x features by edition
Application virtualization Application virtualization
Session virtualization
Application virtualization
Session virtualization (Server & VM)
Basic Service Monitoring
Profile management
Enterprise Management Resource Manager, CPU/Memory
Optimization, Health Assistant, MS SC integration
Session virtualization (Server & VM)
Power and capacity management Power and capacity management
Enterprise Management Resource Manager, CPU/Memory
Optimization, Health Assistant, MS SC integration
Provisioning services
Secure application access
Single sign-on (offline included)
SmartAuditor
Performance Monitoring for Apps
Workflow automation
Load testing services
Profile management
Workflow automation Workflow automation
Application Virtualization
Load testing services
Basic Service Monitoring
XENAPP
Questions to ask of XenApp 6.5
VDI-in-a-Box
VDI-in-a-Box
All key features are built-in: Connection brokering Dynamic provisioning High-availability Load balancing On-demand scaling Citrix HDX user experience Linked clones Personal and pooled desktops
..hypervisor supported • Citrix XenServer • Microsoft Hyper-V • VMware vSphere (ESXi)
DAS
VDI-in-a-Box virtual appliance
Logical Shared Storage
User Manageme
nt
Dynamic Desktop Provisioning & Management
Template Managem
ent
High-Availability Grid Engine
Connection Broker
Load Balancer
Hypervisor
Virtual
Desktop
Virtual
Desktop
Virtual Desktop
Virtual
Desktop
XenServer virtualization platform
XenServer virtualization platform
Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop
High Definition user experience
Any device, anywhere
Departmental Apps via Personal vDisk
RemoteAccess via Access Gateway
High Definition user experience
Any device, anywhere
Departmental Apps via Personal vDisk
RemoteAccess via Access Gateway
Automation
High Definition user experience
Any device, anywhere
Departmental Apps via Personal vDisk
RemoteAccess via Access Gateway
HelpDesk support via DesktopDirector
Automation
Flexcast Local Desktop via XenClient
Windows Apps on demand via XenApp
Platinum Features
All in one turnkey appliance
High availability w/o shared storage
Designed for multi-site deployments Designed for multi-site deployments
Flexcast Shared Desktops via XenApp
HelpDesk support via DesktopDirector
Citrix Hosted Desktop feature check
VDI-in-a-Box
Questions to ask of VDI-in-a-Box
What works for me?
How to Manage? .. 12 steps to better desktop virtualisation
How to decide?
Poll
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eG Innovations Support For Desktop Virtualisation Projects
Keith Girt Regional Sales Manager eG Innovations Ltd (UK) Keith.Girt@eginnovations.com
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Desktop Virtualisation Performance Pain
50% of all desktop
virtualisation projects
stall or fail for 2 reasons:
1) Unacceptable End User Performance
2) Cost Overruns
“Traditional management tools and desktop assessments are failing to
deliver VDI performance, user acceptance and scalability.”
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Virtual Desktops Endpoints | User Workspace
Management | Desktop Mgmt
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Connection Brokers | Provisioning Servers Profile Servers | Storage | Network | Apps
Complexity Investment Performance impact Technology choices Opportunities for Problems
20%
80%
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vCenter
Where is the Problem Root-Cause? SAN
Profile Server
Network
User
Virtual Desktops
on XenServer
XenDesktop
DC on XenServer
Active
Directory
on ESX
Oracle
License Server
on XenServer
Provisioning
Server on XenServer
Switch
Enterprise
Apps on ESX
Hypervisor, Virtual Desktops, Connection Broker, SAN, … a problem in any of these components can impact the user experience.
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Network Web on
ESX
Active Directory SQL
XenApp on
VMware ESX ZDC on
VMware ESX
License Server
Profile Server
Enterprise
Apps
vCenter Oracle
Client
Where are we Over/Under Resourced?
SAN Switch
Should we scale up or scale out? Can we add more users per virtual XenApp or do we need more XenApp instances?
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Traditional Approach to Performance Management
Silo monitoring tools and manual troubleshooting were OK in yesterdays static, physical IT environments
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Performance Assurance Challenges
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How Do We Help?
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The Solution: eG Enterprise
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Snapshot
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Performance Assurance Challenges
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Key Capabilities Fast, pre-emptive problem
detection & alerting so you can fix performance
problems BEFORE users complain. Prevent
downtime, ensure great performance and enhance
user satisfaction.
Right-size and optimize your environment
and reduce hardware cost by 20% through better
utilization rates.
Unmatched performance visibility and auto-correlation of all components and dependencies that impact user experience - across desktop, application, network, storage and virtualization tiers.
Automatic root-cause diagnosis pinpoints problems and accelerates diagnosis and resolution of performance issues - so your highly skilled staff can be more productive rather than fighting fires all day.
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Cost Savings & ROI Benefits
Reduce number and severity of outages
by pre-emptively detecting and repairing performance
issues before they cause downtime.
Reduce hardware and associated software and
support cost by right-sizing and
optimizing your environment.
Reduce downtime by accelerating time to diagnose and repair performance issues.
Reduce Support cost by optimizing expert staffing levels and resource allocation.
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