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VDI Client Management Best Practices
Ganesh Rama Sr. Product Manager, Symantec
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Sample Agenda
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Introduction 1
VDI Myths 2
What are the challenges? 3
What can you do today? 4
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What are we talking about?
Hosted Virtual Desktops (HVD)
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
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Physical Host
Hypervisor
VM VM VM VM VM
Connection Broker
Storage
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VDI Flavors
• Stateless
• Pooled
• Dynamic
• Non-Persistent
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• Stateful
• Static
• Persistent
• 1:1 Mapped
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Pause…Questions
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1. Who has VDI in production today?
2. Who has VDI in pilot/PoC?
3. Who is using VmWare View?
4. Who is using XenDesktop?
5. Who is doing non-persistent VDI?
6. Anybody running Windows XP in VDI?
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VDI Myths
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VDI Myth1
I can do non-persistent VDI only!
Fact – You will have a mix of both.
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Best Case?
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Reality?
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VDI Myth #2
I don’t need client management for non-persistent VDI!
Fact – You still need to manage the guest VMs
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The Basics
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• Power Users
• Remote Users
• Task Workers
• Use Cases
Users & Use Cases
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• I/O
• Applications
• Network
• CPU/Memory
Usage & Load Analysis
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The Tools
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• Tune images
• Consistent pool creation
• Plan for high write I/O
• Training support staff
Tips and Tricks
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Pause…Questions?
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Persistent VDI - IT Lifecycle Management
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Endpoint Security &
Management
• Retirement
• Procurement
• Staging
• Production
Transition & Migration
Problem Resolution
Monitor & Track
Business Continuity
Patch Management
Asset Identification
Contract Management
Deployment & Configuration
Application Packaging & QA
Software Distribution & Virtualization
Endpoint Security
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Persistent VDI Challenges
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What causes this?
1. Anti-Malware
2. Systems Management
- Inventory
- Patch
- Software Distribution
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What can you do today? - General
Minimize scheduled tasks
Turn off unnecessary services
Configure for VDI
Increase heart beat intervals
Enable Randomization
Increase maintenance windows
Exclude VDI from global settings
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What can you do today? Anti-Malware
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• Use Active Scans instead of full system scan
• Use Virtual Image Exception
• Reduce the # of virus definitions retained
• Disable auto-scanning on definitions update
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What can you do today? Systems Management
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1. Create separate groups
2. Sequence execution
•Larger maintenance window •Allow adequate time between executions
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Group1..n
Group 1..n
Group 1..n
Start
End
Inventory
Patching
Other
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Pooled VDI Challenges
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Pooled VDI Challenges
• I/O Storms
• Applications
• Orphaned Licenses
• Duplicate records
• Image Management
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Pooled VDI - Applications
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Core Apps LOB Apps
•Flexibility – Pre-caching, Icons •Real Time Usage Data •App Updates •Minimize images
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Pooled VDI - Orphaned Licenses/Duplicate records
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• Use VM “Refresh” instead of Delete/Create
• Release licenses upon logoff
• Regular cleanup – daily, weekly
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1. Don’t ignore client management
2. Do your homework
3. You gotta do what you gotta do!
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Thank you!
Copyright © 2012 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This document is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as advertising. All warranties relating to the information in this document, either express or implied, are disclaimed to the maximum extent allowed by law. The information in this document is subject to change without notice.
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Ganesh Rama
650-384-5098
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