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XenClient Business Development - EMEA
XenClient EnterpriseProduct Overview
Roger Baskerville
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• Customer challenges
• The solution: Citrix XenClient Enterprise
• Key benefits
• Key use cases
• Pricing & Licensing
• Competitive analysis
• Summary
Agenda
Customer Challenges
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Enterprise laptop users have unique requirements
• Work anywhere, anytime
• Outside the corporate firewall
• Connected/online or disconnected/offline
• High performance – no compromise
• Install apps they need
• Both worlds: Business + Personal
• Help employees to be safe
Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook
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IT faces challenges supporting enterprise laptop users
• Corporate data “walks out” with laptops
• Personalization – compromises security
policies & increase helpdesk tickets
• Hard to keep laptops up to date
• Backup policies difficult to enforce
• Long recovery times when devices fail
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Mobile users demand
performance &
flexibility
Admins need better security & control of
corporate laptops
Enterprise laptop users IT
Conflicting Needs?
The Solution: XenClient Enterprise
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Works even when the network doesn’t
Supports both desktops and laptops
Provides a fast, near-native PC experience
Supports USB peripherals
Dramatically simplifies laptop management
Part of FlexCast delivery model for any use
case
How XenClient Enterprise Helps
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• Type-1 bare metal hypervisor
XenClient Engine
• Multiple, concurrent VMs
• Each VM protected by firewall
• Full disk encryption option
• Better performance, stability and security
Personal
VM
Business
VM
x86 Hardware
Xen Hypervisor
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Centralized Management
How XenClient Enterprise Works
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Hypervisor
OS
Apps
Data
Runs below the operating system
to make PCs manageable, reliable, & secure
Secure Local ExecutionType-1 Client Hypervisor
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Provision or Patch 1000’s of PCs with a Click
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• Simplified Windows Image Deployment & Management
• Reduce costs by decreasing the number of helpdesk calls
• Improve productivity by delivering fast user updates
• Reduce risk by giving IT the ability to rollback updates
• Improve user experience by decreasing user disruptions
Key Benefits for IT administrators
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XenClient Enterprise Engine
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For less sophisticated users: 1 VM with
hypervisor hidden –looks just like Windows
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Centralized Shared Image Management
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Key Benefits
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Local
VHD
Persistent Local Data
(not backed up)
Page.sys, temporary internet files,
search indexes, .ost files
System
VHD
Update
Shared System Disk
One to many: patch once, publish many
User
VHD
Persistent User Data
Backed-up on server for
instant re-provisioning
Backup
Synchronizer
Snapshot
for backup
Differential Update
One-to-many from server
Patch
Shared Image
Rapid
Recovery
• Data protection – Simple & Transparent
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XenClient Enterprise SynchronizerWeb-based
management console
Granular policy controls
Role-based permissions for enterprise-class
management
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Increase addressable market• Management server supported on Hyper-V, XenServer, and vSphere
• Larger deployment - scalable to 10,000 endpoints
• Broader set of hardware support
• Intel and AMD CPUs with virtualization extensions
• Intel, ATI and nVidia graphics support
Increased customer value through enhanced management
capabilities• Deeper policy controls
• Allows VM image creation, editing on management server backend
• Remote image servers
• Enhanced integration with Active Directory
• Role-based administration
• Centrally increase virtual disk size of deployed VMs
What’s new – XenClient EnterpriseBrowse the AD hierarchy by
expanding Domain Controllers.
Assign a role, or select the
role to configure it.
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Key Benefits
• Rich set of policies control aspects of a VM, client and management server
• Expiration
• USB Filter
• Back-up
• Lockout
• OS Profile
• Engine
• Policy-based management
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Provisioning & Management
Security & Control
Enhanced User Experience
Key Capabilities
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Rapid Recovery
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Rapid Recovery
• Transparent backupᵒ Snapshot based backup
ᵒ Only block-level delta changes
ᵒ Policy driven centralized controls
• Complete backupᵒ User data
ᵒ Profiles, preferences, settings
• Instant recoveryᵒ Fast re-provisioning
ᵒ User data, profiles, preferences, settings
ᵒ Recover or migrate a user in minutes
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Security and Control
• Secure client hypervisorᵒ Full VM isolationᵒ Snap-back for virus/malware recovery
• Full disk encryptionᵒ Full disk encryption using AES 256
• AES-NI instructions used if availableᵒ Centralized key recovery
• USB filteringᵒ By device typeᵒ By Virtual Machine
• Expiration, lockout, remote kill
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Enhanced User Experience
• Native Performance
ᵒ Fast-boot Chrome environment
ᵒ Instant switch between VMs
ᵒ Local PC performance
• Multiple VMs
ᵒ Shared Image & Custom ‘Personal’ VMs• Locked Down PC / Flexible Personal PC
ᵒ Windows Migrations• Windows 7 / XP
• Login convenience
ᵒ Single sign-on
ᵒ Option to hide hypervisor
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Demo Time!
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Ideal Solution to Address Users and IT Needs
• Centralized control with Xen based Type-1 client hypervisor
• Communication between backend and client over HTTPS
• Two main modes for image operationsᵒ Business as usual - Static = Customᵒ Layered single image - Dynamic = Shared
• Backup and recovery of user changes
• Security: Policy controls, remote wipe and disk encryption
• Virtual appliance for the backend
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Freedom Flexibility & high-performance
connected or disconnected
ControlSecurity and complete
centralized management
Win-Win-Win for the Business, Users, and IT
Bottom LineEmployee productivity, data
protection, and agility
Work better. Live better.
Back-up Slides
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Customer Spotlight
“NxTop will dramatically change the way I deploy and manage desktops, freeing up valuable IT resources and transforming my
operation from being reactive to proactive.” – Charles Miller, Town of Lincoln, MA
“We were seriously considering a server-based VDI solution, but when we tested NxTop we were amazed that we could run it without any
major incremental investments in server or network infrastructure.” – Nathan McBride, Executive Director of IT, AMAG Pharmaceuticals
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Customer Quotes
•Thanks to NxTop, computers are being deployed to our newest hospital at a
fraction of the time it would ordinarily take.
Ames Prentis, CEO, IVG Hospitals
•We were seriously considering a server-based VDI solution, but when we
tested NxTop we were amazed that we could run it without any major
incremental investments in server or network infrastructure.
•Nate McBride, Executive Director of IT, AMAG Pharmaceuticals
•NxTop is the first product I have ever tested where my users want to adopt
merely by word of mouth. We had employees at all levels literally begging to get
these systems.
•Alan Rabideau, CIO, Residential Finance Corporation
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XenClient Editions
XenClient XT
XenClient Enterprise
XenClient ExpressFor standalone use by IT Pros
Free high-performance bare metal local virtual desktops
for IT professionals and software developers/testers.
For enterprise use with XenDesktop
Virtual desktops to go with Enterprise-class bare metal
local virtual desktops designed to be paired with the
centralized delivery capabilities of XenDesktop.
For extreme security and isolation
Multi-level secure local virtual desktops designed to meet
the most extreme isolation, security, and performance
requirements for public sector customers.
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Key Benefits:
Central Office
Synchronizer
Remote Office
Synchronizer
• Caching Server– At Central Office
• Single view of Virtual Desktop Environment through Synchronizer
– At Remote Office• Images stores locally in remote office
• Local LAN operations for provisioning, backups and restoring
LANWAN
• Scalable for large deployment
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What’s the future
• Looking forward
Centralized Management
Synchronization
Advanced Policy Control
Enterprise Scalability
Multi Platform
Personal vDisk
Xen Hypervisor
Expanded Hardware
Extensibility
Extreme Security
HDX User Experience
Client Hypervisor
The best parts of each solution is coming together
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Architectural overview - Hypervisor
Hardware
Xen™ Hypervisor (Open Source)
… Services
Domain
(DomS)
Management
and Control
Domain
(Dom0)
• True Type-1 Hypervisor (No OS below the hypervisor layer)ᵒ Fully virtualized platformᵒ Supports wide range of business class PCsᵒ Full shared image support for Windows 7, XP & Vistaᵒ Linux supported as custom image or local install
Virtual Machine #1 Virtual Machine #2
Virtual HW
Windows XP
Applications
User Data
Virtual HW
Windows 7
Applications
User Data
Shared ImagePatch
BackupStore
ManagementServer
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Architectural overview – OS Management
Shared Image
Patch
Backup
Store
Update
System
VHD
User
VHD
Backup
Local
VHD
ManagementServer
Shared System DiskOne to many, patch once, publish many
Persistent User DataBacked-up on server for instant recovery
Persistent Local Data (no backup)Page.sys, temp files, indexes, .ost files
One to many
from server
Snapshot
For backup
Fast
Recovery
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Architectural overview – Management Server
Central Server
Console
Control
Repository
API
LDAP
SQL
HyperV
FileSystemFileSystem
ManagementServer
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HQ
Architectural overview – Hierarchical Mgmt
Management Server(Web/App)
SQL
Remote
Caching Server
WANSQL Server (1443)
HTTPS (443)
• Optimized for low-bandwidth/WAN environments• Intelligent caching of downloaded images• Efficient use of bandwidth between remote offices
• At Remote Office• Local LAN operations for publishing/backups• One copy of OS image and patches• Backups stored locally in Remote Office
• At Central Office• Single view of Environment through management UI