Citrix XenDesktop Complete desktop delivery system

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Citrix XenDesktopComplete desktop delivery system
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Disclaimer
XenDesktop is not yet released. Information in
this slide deck may be subject to change.
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Complete VDI System
Provision virtual desktops from a single image
High Speed Virtual Delivery (ICA)
VM Infrastructure
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Best User Experience

• SpeedScreen high-performance graphics
• 15x less bandwidth consumption
• Responsive to image manipulation
• Universal Print Driver
• Seamlessly attach to printers
• Use advanced features (stapling, 2-sided)
• Instant On
• Login and launch, no waiting to boot
• Policies ensure desktops are always ready and
  waiting

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Cost Effective

• Virtual Desktop Provisioning
• Creates many desktops from a single virtual
  desktop image
• Makes desktop refreshes and migrations simple
• One-click updates and rollbacks

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End to End Desktop Virtualization

• Remote Desktop Access
• Secure, anywhere access to virtual desktops
• Performance monitoring
• Desktop health, availability and
  troubleshooting
• WAN Quality of Service
• WAN optimization appliance
• Remote assistance
• Fast, easy and secure remote support service
• EasyCall
• Click to Call enabled virtual desktops

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XenDesktop Setup Tool

• Initial Configuration
• Specify the provisioning server.
• Specify the desktop server.
• Specify the AD XenDesktop Farm OU
• Select the virtual infrastructure service and
  specify the master server.
• Optionally enable event logging.

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XenDesktop Setup Tool

• Create virtual desktops
• Wizard driven virtual desktop creation

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XenDesktop Setup Tool

• Select the base VM
• Select the VM used to build the base virtual disk
  image.
• IMPORTANT The base VM virtual network interface
  must match the network interface used when
  creating the vDisk.

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XenDesktop Setup Tool

• Name Virtual Desktops
• Desktop names will be assigned by combining base
  hostname plus a number starting for the start
  index.
• Example for Sales Group (Sales1, Sales2, Sales3,
  , Sales100)
• Base Hostname Sales
• No. of Clones 100
• Start Index 1
• Desktop Group Sales

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XenDesktop Setup Tool

• Select the virtual disk
• Use Provisioning Server for pooled desktops is
  checked.
• New desktops are created using a single
  provisioning server vDisk image.
• Use this option for creating pooled (shared)
  desktop groups.
• Use Provisioning Server for pooled desktops is
  unchecked.
• Can clone an entire VM with hard disk
• The base VM should be SysPrepped.
• Use this option for creating assigned (dedicated)
  desktop groups.

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XenDesktop Setup Tool

• Summary Screen
• Shows the configuration options that were
  selected in the wizard.
• In this scenario we are creating 20 virtual
  desktops VMs using a single provisioning server
  vDisk image.
• The hostnames will be xendesktop1, xendesktop2,
  . xendesktop20.
• These new virtual desktops will be added to the
  existing desktop group called desktops.

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XenDesktop Setup Tool

• Progress Screen
• Shows the progress of creating desktop VMs.
• Creating 20 new virtual desktops only takes a few
  minutes.

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Desktop Delivery Components
Support
Monitoring
Brokering
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Operating Systems, Apps, and user Profiles are
provisioned on demand
Users request their desktop by logging in to the
system
Profiles
Users
Secure Remote Access
WAN Optimization
Hypervisor
Apps
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Users are delivered their desktop remotely
OS
Blade Chassis
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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Citrix XenDesktop Product Components
GoToAssist
EdgeSight
Desktop Delivery Controller
Profiles
ICA Client
Access Gateway
WANScaler
Xen, Hyper-V, VM
XenApp
Apps
Provisioning Server
OS
Blade Chassis
Citrix Optimized Storage
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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Virtual Desktop Agent and ICA Client

• Installed on all Desktops (VM's or Blades)
• Delivers virtual desktop via ICA to any ICA
  client

Desktop Delivery Controller

• SpeedBrowse
• SmoothRoaming
• Universal Print Driver
• Dynamic client drive mapping (USB drives)
• SpeedScreen
• Multi-monitor support
• Session Reliability
• ClearType
• etc

Virtual Desktop Agent
ICA
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Desktop Delivery Controller

• Solution
• Simple to deploy and administer
• Brokers and end-to-end ICA connections
• Manages flexible desktop-user association
• Pooled
• Assign on first use
• Pre-assigned
• Enables secure ticket-based connections
• Supports single sign-on
• Runs on Windows Server 2003 (32 64-bit)
• Broad desktop hosting infrastructure support
• Efficient use of AD for non-volatile settings

Desktop Delivery Controller
Virtual Desktop Agent
ICA
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AD Usage
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Implement VM Desktops
WI
Licensing
Data Store
Workstation Farm
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