VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?

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 [email protected] Twitter: @gilwood_cs www.gilwood-cs.co.uk

Is this just another smackdown?

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



Features by edition

Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop

High Definition user experience


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















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


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



Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop Dedicated & Pooled VDI Desktop




RemoteAccess via Access Gateway





Automation





HelpDesk support via DesktopDirector

Automation



Platinum Features

All in one turnkey appliance

High availability w/o shared storage

Designed for multi-site deployments Designed for multi-site deployments


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?


eG Innovations Support For Desktop Virtualisation Projects

Keith Girt Regional Sales Manager eG Innovations Ltd (UK) [email protected]


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.”


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.


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?


Traditional Approach to Performance Management

Silo monitoring tools and manual troubleshooting were OK in yesterdays static, physical IT environments


Performance Assurance Challenges


How Do We Help?


The Solution: eG Enterprise


Snapshot


Performance Assurance Challenges


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.


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.


About eG Innovations

Performance Assurance

Made Easy

eG Innovations helps companies to dramatically simplify, accelerate, and optimize performance management across mission-critical virtual, cloud and physical IT environments

Only eG Innovations award-winning root-cause diagnosis technology can automatically pinpoint performance issues by auto-correlating the user’s service experience with the underlying infrastructure and application components

Deliver exceptional performance, user productivity, and ROI

Worldwide Locations

Offices in London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Singapore, Chennai. Partners in all major markets.

Customers Over 1,000 customers worldwide

Certifications &

Sample Awards

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Customer Success

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http://www.t-mobile.com/

http://www.kroger.com/

http://www.gdis.com.sg/

http://www.alverno.org/

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&

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Next Steps

Live Product Demonstration www.eginnovations.com

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VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?

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