top tips for a successful desktop virtualisation implementation with citrix and microsoft

Top tips for a successful desktop virtualization implementation with Citrix and Microsoft

A world where people can work or play from anywhere

Aggregate & Deliver Build & ConnectEmpower

MyData

MyDevices

MyLocation

MyApps

MyFriends

MyPrefs

My Life | My WorkPersonal Cloud

data apps

mobile workstyle

people

Seamless access to people, apps & data

fol low-me meeti ngs, data, apps & desktops

Share any file, instantly with anyone

And seamlessly across all your

devices

by Citrix

•Send, request & share files within Outlook

•Data from all your devices

•Desktop widget & sync tools

•File encryption – at rest and in transit

•Versioning & comment tracking

•File activity alerts & notifications

•Remote wipe & account locking

Amazing access to

desktops, apps, docs and IT services from any device

• 1000s of PCs and Macs

• 150 different smartphones

• 40 different tablets

• 10 different thin clients

• 1.5B+ devices supported

Citrix Receiver

•Access data from any source… on any device

•Open, view, edit, save and share any document

•Remote wipe built in

with Follow-Me Data

data apps

mobile workstyle

people

Private CloudAggregate & Deliver

Windows apps & desktops

Web & mobile apps

SaaS apps

Corporate & cloud data

UnifiedServiceBroker

Gateway services

XenAppXenDesktop

Web & SaaS

Data

Mobile

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Citrix CloudGateway

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smartphonetablet

thin client

XenApp / XenDesktop Session

New HDX Mobile Virtual Channels & SDK

3rd party Touch-friendly,

Location / Motion Aware, etc. Remote

App

Citrix Mobile App Server

Legacy Windows App

HDX Server Stack

• Multi-touch• Sensors ( GPS, Motion, Temperature, Light)• Bi-directional Video & Audio• Voice recognition & Text-to-speech

My Life | My Work

• Windows

• Web

• SaaS

• In-house

• HTML5

• Mobile

Wanna see it?

Windows as-a-Service

Flexible Workstyle Solutions

Personalized Windowsdevices

Optimize infrastructure for VDI

Cloud management for Windows devices

Work on the road

Work on your own device

Work on your phone

Unified management across devices

ANYWHERECONNECTION

PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE

INTELLIGENTINFRASTRUCTURE

Sounds great, but is VDI really a fit for

every user?

Cost? Scalability?

User Experience?

VDI is great for some users . . .

. . . But IT needs choice and flexibility to serve all of their users

VDI-in-a-Box

A One-Way VIEW on Desktop virtialization

All-in-one virtual desktop solution

All key features are built-in: Connection brokering Dynamic provisioning High-availability Load balancing On-demand scaling Citrix HDX user experience Linked clones

Access from virtually any device viaCitrix Receiver

Open architecture runs on the most popular hypervisors:• Citrix XenServer• Microsoft Hyper-V• VMware vSphere (ESXi)

DAS

VDI-in-a-Box

vdiMgr

Logical Shared Storage

User Management

Dynamic Desktop Provisioning & Management

Template Management

High-Availability Grid Engine

Connection Broker

Load Balancer

Hypervisor

Citrix Confidential - Do Not Distribute

VirtualDesktop

VirtualDesktop

VirtualDesktop

VirtualDesktop

XenDesktop

The Right Virtual Desktop for Every User

Any user any device

Any type of virtual desktop

One centrally managed solution

LOCAL PERSONAL SHARED

Knowledge WorkerLaptop Users Task Workers

On-Demand Apps

The Right Desktop for Every User

USER TYPESMobileusers

Taskworkers

On-Demand Apps

Desktop Virtualization is More Than Just VDI

Hosted Shared

500+ users per server

LocalVM

Runs locallyonline or offline

Hosted VDI

150+users per server

StreamedVHD

3000+users per server

Citrix FlexCast™ for desktops

Hosted VDI

StreamedVHD

Hosted Shared

LocalVM

USER TYPESMobileusers

Taskworkers

Windows Server 2008 R2:Desktop Centralization Choices

•Windows Server 2008 R2 Session Virtualization

•Windows 7 Desktop or Virtual Desktop (VDI)

Windows RDS has up to 5x the scalability over VDI

Citrix FlexCast™ for apps

Hosted VM

StreamedLocal

Hosted Shared

Best ROIIdeal for Line-of-Business

and Client-Server Apps

Full IsolationIdeal for Resource-Intensive

and Single-User Apps

Online or OfflineIdeal for Productivity Apps

Supports App-V

Why Microsoft and Citrix for Desktop Virtualization?Citrix and Microsoft

Market Leader for Desktops & Apps

More than 25 million licensed App-V seats.

Hyper-V optmized for desktop workload

End to End User-centric management of physical and virtual assets, in the cloud or on premises

Market Leader for Virtual Desktops

Best user experience with HDX

Beyond VDI… all virtual desktop and app models in one product

Windows desktops and apps on PCs, Macs, iPads, smartphones

User State Virtualization

Application Virtualization

Client Hosted

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SessionsServer Hosted

OS Virtualization

Citrix XenDesktop extends the Microsoft VDI suites‘Best of Breed’ Comprehensive VDI Stack

Profile management, storage optimization and other tools for

Hyper-V

On-Demand Application Delivery that builds on Microsoft App-V

Virtual desktop and application delivery architecture

Dynamic desktop delivery reduces cost of VDI

Rich Remote user experience

High definition experience over both LAN and WAN

Hypervisor for high scalability & reliability

Technology for high fidelity user experience

Technology for Session Delivery and VDI

Technology for Application Virtualization

Use rights for System Center components, restricted to the

VDI Scenario

On-Demand Windows desktop and session delivery

Universal software client and storefront

Self-Service

• Anytime, anywhere, any device

• PCs, Macs, laptops, tablets,thin clients, & smartphones

• Simple, fast, self-service install

Citrix Receiver

Full Integration with Microsoft App-V

•Stream App-V packages

•Publish directly from XenApp

•App-V plug-in for Citrix Receiver

•Full support in Citrix Self-Service

Citrix, App-V and SCCM - From Desktop to Datacenter

Accelerate App-V

Adoption

ReceiverApp-V Plug-in

XD XA

Centralize PC & App MgmtNext Generation User-Centric Computing

ManagedEnd Point

Un-managedEnd Point

Non-WindowsDevice

CitrixXenApp

ConfigMgr/ XenApp Connector

What's New in Citrix XenDesktop 5.5

HDX RealTime VoIP-over-ICA

– Improved Citrix Receiver for Windows performance when multi-tasking with real-time apps (‘Mach 3’ project)

– Client jitter buffer for smoother audio– Improved echo cancellation– Audio plug-n-play and audio device routing– Multi-stream ICA for full QoS support,

plus UDP/RTP for audio on XenDesktop (VDI) – DSCP and WMM packet tagging XenDesktop VDI &

Hosted Shared (XenApp)

Enhanced Webcam Support

•Webcam compression–Bandwidth consumption down to 300-600 Kbps

upstream with broad app compatibility (no longer limited to Microsoft OCS/Lync)

–Latency tolerant beyond 150ms RTL (trans-oceanic) on good quality WAN connections

•High-scalability value-add solution available from Citrix partner Avistar–Client-side media processing for Microsoft

Lync/OCS and Lotus Sametime implementations with high volume webcam usage

Pooled VDI

Desktop OS

Dedicated VDI

Desktop OS

Preferences

Apps

Data

Preferences

Apps

Data

Personal vDisk technology enables personalized virtual desktops & reduces the cost of storage

IT gets cost advantages of pooled VDI Users get personalization of dedicated VDI

Personal vDisk for each user enables departmental and user installed apps

Preferences

Apps

DataPreferences

Apps

DataPreferences

Apps

DataPreferences

Apps

Data

Early Access Available Today for all XenDesktop Editions

High-definition Experience for Remote and Branch Office Workers

•Significant enhancement for Windows desktops– Windows Apps launch two times faster– Windows 7 Aero display via 3X graphics performance – Real time voice and video improvements &

support for broad set of collaboration applications

•Delivering virtual desktops across the WAN– Double the number of users on existing WAN link– Flash redirection reaches 1000s of miles – Local scanning and printing 6X faster– Guaranteed Quality of Service prioritizes traffic

for the best user experience

T E C H N O L O G Y

More than 150 features in largest HDX release inCitrix 20 year history

Quality of Service

Accelerate

Optimize

Anytime, Anywhere Access on over 1 Billion devices with Citrix Receiver

•New Receivers for Windows, Mac OS Lion, Google Chrome and HP webOS tablets

•Next-generation design for coherent user interface across all devices

•Multi-touch, intuitive gestures for accessing data, applications and desktops

•User optimized experience across form-factors for apps and documents

• 3x more laptops supported representing more than 45M devices

• Brilliantly simply user experience for non-technical users

• Enterprise class management advancements for administrators including automation, setup, scalability, reporting and backup

XenClient 2 delivers personalized virtual desktops for mobile users

Desktop DirectorDesktop virtualization goes mainstream

• Designed for the help desk• Unifies Apps and Desktops• Now includes HDX Monitor

Wanna see it?

Will my applications run?

to acquire

•Market leader in speeding the migration of Windows & browser apps to new platformsPhysical to virtual transitions

OS and browser upgrades

Existing apps to new platforms

•Rapid Portfolio Analysis

•Intelligent remediation

•Automated app packaging

Desktop Transformation Model

Phased approach to transformation

Supporting tools, resources & programs

Broad industry partnerships

Simple, proven, industry-endorsed best practices, tools and services to ease your transition

Simplifies Desktop Management and accelerate Win7 deployments

Extend Endpoint Lifecycle

Reduces App Migration Costs by Minimizing app testing/integration

Deploys Desktops Overnight and accelerates Win7 Deployment

Reduces ongoing desktop and app TCO up to 50%

Provides deployment flexibility from desktop to datacenter

Microsoft and Citrix – Better Together

top tips for a successful desktop virtualisation implementation with citrix and microsoft

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