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C D H VMware, Microsoft, or Citrix: Whose Virtual Desktop is Right for You?
October 2010
C D H Quick Facts
About Us• 20th Year• Grand Rapids &
Royal Oak• 25 Staff
Approach• Vendor Agnostic• Non-reseller• Professional
Services Only
Partnerships• Microsoft Gold• VMware Enterprise• Cisco Premier• Novell Platinum• Citrix Silver
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Infrastructure
Access & Identity Management
Expertise
Project Management
Collaboration
C D H Presenter
• Chris MonksMCSE, CAPM, [email protected]
C D H Agenda
• Overview of VDI• Benefits of Hosted Desktops• VDI Drawbacks• Key Players• Microsoft• Citrix• VMware• Feature Comparison• Licensing Comparison• What is Right for You?
C D H Overview
• SBC - Server based computing– Centralized Distributed Centralized
• Virtualization– Decoupling OS from hardware– Sharing hardware resources
• VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure– Hosted virtual desktops– Combination of SBC and virtualization
C D H Expectations
2008 IDC Report
C D H Desktop Management
• TCO for the traditional corporate desktop– $3500 and $5000 per user, per year– End user operational costs nearly 45%
• Hosted virtual desktops 2% to 12% more cost effective than traditional PCs
C D H Physical vs. Virtual
Cost Physical Desktop
Virtual Desktop
Client hardware $900 $300Server hardware - $250Virtual desktop solution - $120PC deployment costs $185 $25Operations: Support, software deployment, backup, security, virus protection
$600 $392
End-user operations: Training, self-support
$2215 $704
Annual downtime cost $90 $30TOTAL $3990 $1821
Gartner TCO Comparison of PCs with Server-Based Computing
C D H Components
• Virtualization platform– Highly available, resource load balancing
• Connection Broker• Endpoint
– Desktop, laptop, thin client
• Hosted desktop• Application
deployment process/solution
C D H Benefits
• Longer life of endpoint devices• Centralized administration• Improved security
– All data stored in datacenter• Speed of deployment
– New user– New operating system– Updates / patches
• Single image – hardware independence– No longer need multiple images
• Better hardware utilization• Higher availability
C D H Drawbacks
• Large initial investment– Servers for virtualization infrastructure– FC or iSCSI SAN for shared storage– Network infrastructure
• More expensive than other SBC solutions– Cost benefit analysis
• IT training• Reliance on network connectivity• End-user experience
C D H Key Players
• VMware – View– Virtual Infrastructure / vSphere
• Citrix Systems – XenDesktop– XenApp (Presentation Server)– XenServer
• Microsoft – Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)– Hyper-V– Windows Server and workstation operating
systems
C D H Microsoft
• Remote Desktop Services– Remote Desktop Connection Broker– Web Access and RemoteApp– Remote Desktop Virtualization Host– Remote Desktop Gateway
• Windows Server 2008 R2• Microsoft Hyper-V• System Center Virtual Machine Manager
C D H Virtualization
• Microsoft Hyper-V R2– Live migration– Shared Cluster Volumes– Integration with System Center Operations
Manager 2007• Virtual Machine Manager
– Management of Microsoft virtualization– Single Administrative view– Templates, cloning, library, PRO Tips
C D H Remote Desktop Services
• Connection Broker– Desktop pools
• Secure remote access– Remote Desktop Gateway
• Web Access• RemoteApp
C D H Connection Manager
• Remote Desktop Connection Manager– Load balancing of connections– Hosted Desktop
• Assigned– User assigned to dedicated desktop
• Pool– User connects to any available desktop
• Remote Desktop Gateway– Secure remote access to desktops
C D H Application Deployment
• System Center Configuration Manager– Lite or Zero touch OS deployment– Application deployment
• Remote Desktop Services – RemoteApp
• App-V– Application virtualization
C D H App-V
• Acquisition of Softricity– Originally renamed SoftGrid
• Application virtualization– Application sandbox– Streaming– Deployment
C D H Profile Management
• Profile Management– Microsoft roaming profiles– Maintain settings across devices
• Folder redirection– User files stored on server– Flexibility in hosted desktop
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C D H Microsoft Demo
• Overview– Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager
• Windows 7 and Windows XP desktops– Remote Desktop Services
• Setting up desktops (Administrator)– Assign personal desktops to users– Create new desktop pool
• Connect to Desktop (End User)– Connect to desktop in RDS web– Connect to desktop via session broker RDP
C D H Citrix
• XenDesktop• XenServer• XenApp
– Formerly Presentation Server• Provisioning Server
– Ardence• Profile Management
C D H Virtualization
• XenServer– Live migration with XenMotion– XenCenter for management– High availability with resource pools
• Platform support– Open architecture– Any endpoint device– Any virtualization platform
C D H XenDesktop
• Desktop delivery controller• Citrix receiver, agent, web console• Desktop pools
– Pool– Assigned
• Persistent• Non-persistent
• Desktop availability– Work hours
C D H Provisioning Server
• One to many– Streaming OS to endpoints– vDisk image
• Private to one desktop• Shared with many desktops
– WriteCache• Local, server, RAM
– Not restricted to only virtual machines
C D H XenApp
• Citrix Presentation Server• Virtualized application delivery
– Use XenApp server for processing• Streaming application delivery
– Use virtual desktop for processing
– Sandbox– Pre-caching
C D H Profile Manager
• Windows service that monitors logon and logoff
• Maintain settings across devices• Granular control of profile
– Reduce profile bloat• Settings deployed via GPO• Logoff
– Only changes synchronized• Logon
– Local profile synchronized
C D H Citrix Demo
• Overview - Show set-up – XenDesktop
• Show pools – Provisioning Services
• Show vDisks and write cache settings
• Setting up desktops (Administrator)– Create assigned desktop group– Create pooled desktop group
• Connect to Desktop (End User)– Connect to desktops in XenDesktop web portal
• Show streaming disk on boot-up
C D H VMware
• View• Virtual Infrastructure / vSphere
– ESX/ESXi– High Availability– Distributed Resource Scheduler– Vmotion
• ThinApp– Application virtualization
C D H Virtual Infrastructure
• ESX/ESXi hypervisor• Live migration with VMotion• High Availability• Resource load balancing• High consolidation
– Resource pools– Memory page sharing– Balloon driver
• Update Manager
C D H View Manager
• View Manager– Connection Server
• Full, Replica, Security
– Authentication • Active Directory• RSA Secure Authentication
• Automated and manual pools– Persistent and non-persistent
• Windows Terminal Services• Physical PCs / blades
C D H View Composer
• View Composer– Linked clones– Golden image (Master)– 70-90% storage savings
• Master image– Changes made to
differential– User data disk
• Disk management– Recompose, refresh
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• Enable end-users to check-out desktops • Enables administrators to extend security and
encryption policies– Expiration
• Synchronizations
Local Desktop
View Manager
VMware Infrastructure 3
Centralized Virtual
Desktops
C D H ThinApp
• Acquisition of Thinstall• Sandbox environment• Streaming or local• No server or client
– GPOs and logon scripts• Application policies• Application Link
– Dependencies with other applications• Application Sync
– Updating applications
C D H Profile Management
• User personality disks– Application and user disk mapped to linked
clone– Folder redirection to disk
• Roaming profiles• Folder redirection
C D H VMware Demo
• Overview - Show set-up – Virtual Infrastructure
• Show folders and replicas– View Administrator
• Show admin console• Setting up desktops (Administrator)
– Create auto persistent desktop pool with linked clone
– Assign existing desktop• Connect to Desktop (End User)
– Connect to desktops in View web portal– Connect to desktop from View client
C D H Feature Comparison
Feature Microsoft Citrix VMwareInfrastructure Microsoft Citrix / Microsoft / VMware VMware
Assigned Desktop X X X
Desktop Pools X X X
Secure Remote Access RDS Gateway Access Gateway Security Server
Application Deployment App-VRemoteApp
SCCM
XenApp ThinApp
Profile Management Roaming profilesFolder redirection
Profile ManagerFolder redirection
Microsoft User/data disk
Shared storage No Provisioning Services View Composer
Offline desktops No No Yes (Experimental)
Image Updating SCCM vDisk Recompose
Web console X X X
C D H Licensing
Microsoft Citrix VMwareVDI Standard Suite VDI Edition Enterprise- RDS CAL (Basic) - Virtual Infrastructure - Virtual Infrastructure
-MDOP - Desktop Delivery Controller
- vCenter Server
- Virtual Machine Manager Enterprise - View Manager
- Configuration Manager - Pooling, HA, XenMotion Premier- Operations Manager - Provisioning Services - View Composer
VDI Premium Suite - XenApp for Desktops - Local Desktop
- RDS CAL (Unrestricted) - ThinApp
- App-V for RDS Platinum- Edgesight
- WAN Optimization
C D H Conclusion – Which is Right for Me?
• A Few Questions to Ask Yourself:– Do virtual desktops still make sense for you?– Do you already have one of these vendors in
your environment and have experience with it?– Is there a particular feature that is very
important to you?– Are you already partially or fully licensed for
one of these solutions?– Do you have in-house expertise or a qualified
partner to help you with the solution?
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