Virtual Desktops: New Opportunities for Support, Software Utilization, and Security (177729122)
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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
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Community College of RI
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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
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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
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Realizing the Benefits of Desktop
Virtualization
VDI can help IT achieve these benefits across all types of desktops
and devices
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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Policies that follow
users, not devices
Self-Service Catalogs
vCloud Hybrid Service
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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
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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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