F5’s VMware Horizon View Reference Architecture

Peter Silva

Sr. Technical Marketing Manager

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How Many?

The average person

carries 2.9 devices*

HOW MANY DEVICES

DO YOU CARRY?

Companies Consolidating

DevicesPeople Accumulating Devices

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VDI – The Reasons Why

Drivers for desktop/application virtualization, thin client, or blade PC technologies?

11%

10%

20%

21%

27%

43%

46%

51%

55%

55%

0%

14%

16%

21%

22%

23%

36%

38%

45%

48%

48%

53%

Q3 2012

Q3 2011

Supporting employees to work from anywhere

Increasing manageability, patching

Lowering costs

Providing flexible remote access

Disaster Recovery

Better security

Improving compliance

Reducing PC energy consumption

Supporting access for tablets

BYOPC Programs

Enable Apple Mac computers

Base: 981 (2011) & (2012) North American and European IT decision-makers

Source: Enterprise and SMB Hardware Survey, North America and Europe, Q3 2011 & Q3 2012

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Horizon ViewComplete desktop and application virtualization

+ HORIZON SUITE

Intelligent Services Framework

Secure • Fast • Available

Horizon View

VM

VDI

Horizon Mirage

Horizon Workspace

Anywhere, any service, any device Intelligent Dynamic, agile, adaptive

Horizon Mirage Horizon WorkspaceHorizon ViewCentralized layered image

management for local deployment

Multi-device workspace

for IT services

Complete desktop and

application virtualization

Support for VMware validated solutions• Mobile Secure Desktop

• Business Process Desktop

• AlwaysOn Desktop

• Branch Office Desktop

Intelligent traffic management and

security• Local and global traffic management

• Multi-site and multi-pod deployments

• Access management and data center

firewall

Unique F5 solutions• Single Namespace

• Username Persistence

• Native PCoIP Proxy

• CAC Support

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Complex

User devices VMware Horizon View

Virtual desktops & apps

Fragmented application access and policy management

Load Balancer View Security Servers

Firewall View Connection

Servers

User experience impacted

by latency, lack of

persistence, poor

reliability

Firewall

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Simple

BIG-IP Access Policy

Manager

APM

TCP 443

UDP 4172

TCP/UDP 4172TCP 80

Authentication Logging/Reporting

Desktops

Connection

Servers

Internal

APM

SSL DecryptionAuthentication

High AvailabilityPCoIP Proxy

DMZ

Logging/Reporting

TCP 80

Internal View Clients

External View Clients

VMware Horizon View

• Secure VDI

• Advanced AAA & Endpoint security

• Traffic management

• Scalable –200,000 concurrent users

• Offload/replace Security Server

INDUSTRY FIRST HARDENED SECURITY INCREASED SCALABILITY SIMPLIFY VIEW VDI

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Consolidate

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Easy iApp for VMware View

Configure network for VMware View automatically• Admin answers simple, goal-based questions

• iApp for VMware View configures network based on Admin’s input

Benefits• Faster (minutes instead of days)

• Reduces errors

• Replicates to groups of servers easily

BIG-IPAre You Using VMware

View Security Servers?

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Efficient

Desktop

Laptop

Smartphone

Tablet

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Enabling

Scenario Functionality Value

L2TP SSL and VPN, AAA

functionality

Secure access to View servers over public

networks. Replaces View Security Server and

removes Windows from the DMZ.

Load balancing, policy and

global traffic management

Scale View when multiple Connection Servers

are required.

Global Load Balancing Route View traffic globally.

User Name Persistence Faster session login and restoration without re-

opening applications.

SECURITY & FIPSCOMPLIANCE

SYSTEM SCALABILITY

MULTIPLE DATA CENTERS

PERFORMANCE

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Why F5 for View?

Increased Scalability

Increased Availability

Strengthened Security

Simpler Architecture to Manage

Engineered Specifically for View

Easier for End Users

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Options

Description List Price per unit

24x7 Support

Throughput Concurrent SSL VPN Users

Concurrent VDI "Access" Users

BIG-IP Virtual Edition: View

special APM (5M)

$ 95 Self Service 5M 10 10

BIG-IP Virtual Edition: View

special APM (25M)

$ 2,000 24% of list 25M 10 50

BIG-IP Virtual Edition: View

special APM (200M)

$ 4,000 24% of list 200M 10 250

BIG-IP Virtual Edition:

View special APM (1G)

$ 10,000 24% of list 1G 10 1,000

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Solution Citrix Superior alternative

Desktop Virtualization Citrix XenApp

Citrix XenDesktop

View

Server Virtualization Citrix XenServer vSphere

Datacenter Virtualization CloudPlatform vCenter

vCloud Director

Application Delivery Citrix NetScaler BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Web App Firewall Citrix NetScaler App Firewall BIG-IP Application Security Manager

(ASM)

SSL VPN Citrix NetScaler Gateway BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

(APM)

Edge Delivery Citrix Cloud Bridge BIG-IP Edge Gateway

Datacenter HA NetScaler GSLB function BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager

(GTM)

Web Application Acceleration NetScaler Web 2.0 Application

Optimization

F5 AAM

Better Choice

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F5 BIG-IP is the Foundation for App Delivery

F5 makes

VDI better

Proven choice for End User Computing

Market leader in Application Delivery

Optimize the User Experience

Simplify Infrastructure

Unify Security & Access Control

Strengthen Availability

Reduce Cost

Positioned to meet end users’ needs