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Virtualization 360 With Microsoft and Citrix. Virtualization 360 With Microsoft and Citrix. Gordon Mangione VP, Emerging Virtualization Products Citrix Systems, Inc. Desktop Virtualization. Microsoft VDI with Citrix. Microsoft® App –V (formerly SoftGrid ) . Remote App . XenDesktop.
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Virtualization 360 With Microsoft and Citrix Gordon Mangione VP, Emerging Virtualization Products Citrix Systems, Inc.
Microsoft VDI with Citrix Microsoft® App –V (formerly SoftGrid) Remote App XenDesktop Centralized Desktop
XenDesktop Integration with SCVMM • Virtual Machine Support • Hyper-V • Virtual Machine Management • SCVMM • Integration to VM infrastructure • Start • Suspend • Resume • Shutdown • Disconnect • Smooth roaming • Create idle Pools Desktop DeliveryController Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Power shell Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V SCVMM Hosting Infrastructure
Presentation Virtualization Citrix drives depth by enabling App Delivery Task Office Anywhere On Non-company PC Citrix XenApp Server End-to-End Application Delivery CentralizedControl ApplicationCompatibility Optimized UserExperience ComprehensiveAccess EnterpriseScalability Security Extensibility Stability Connectivity Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services “Presentation Virtualization Platform” Windows Server 2008 increases the breadth of the solution
Application Virtualization Solutions XenApp Policies Citrix® XenApp™ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 & Terminal Services Complementary in the XenApp farm Publish App-V sequences in XenApp Apply XenApp policies to App-V
What "Project Encore" is all about • Next chapter in successful 20-year partnership • New “Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V” product • Perfect complement to Hyper-V for enterprise customers • Makes Hyper-V more scalable, manageable and agile • Joint go-to-market collaboration worldwide • Powerful new capabilities that change the game • Advanced StorageLink™ Technology • Dynamic Provisioning Services • Automated Lab Management • Workflow Orchestration • Multi-hypervisor interoperability • Integration with System Center
Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V • Citrix Essentials • Streamlines lab management • On-demand delivery of workloads • Exposes advanced storage features • Automatically recovers from server and VM failures • Citrix XenServer • Unlimited centralized management • Live motion and resource pooling • Fast bare metal performance • Native Windows and Linux support • Broad open standards support • Free
Target Buyer • Microsoft Customers who want to virtualize with Hyper-V and need extended enterprise capabilities now • Targeted roles include: • Director/Manager of IT System/Server Operations • Windows IT Professionals • Storage Managers • Virtual Desktop Project Managers • Development Lab Managers responsible for server virtualization
Simplified Storage Management Reduces cost and complexity using existing storage systems and storage services • Works with any storage (simple) • Works with all storage architectures to provide seamless compatibility with a wide range of storage hardware platforms. Citrix Essentials SMI-S, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, DAS Storage API • One-click access to native storage services • Simplifies management and leverages existing storage array-based services and technologies. • Works with existing Windows storage management products Leverage the capabilities of enterprise storage systems • SAVES TIME – ELIMINATES COMPLEXITY • ENABLES ACCESS TO POWERFUL STORAGE FUNCTIONS
Lifecycle Management • Methodically create, test, deploy, and maintain golden images faster with less effort • Self-Service Web Management • Create Automated Image Build/Test Routines to accelerate testing • Create Standardized Image Libraries • Pre-allocate test resources for each engineer US Asia Europe Manage MultipleLocations Build Test Deploy Using AutomatedProcesses OS Apps Workloads StandardizedImageLibraries
Workflow Orchestration • Create powerful, dynamic workflows that span multiple applications and services • Create powerful services by linking multiple services and applications using Microsoft Powershell™ • Automatically provision new servers, create services, or complete tasks on demand • Automate repetitive tasks, saving time, effort and eliminating errors
Customer Scenarios • Simplified Lab and Stage deployments • Cost effective Hyper-V XenDesktop deployments • Dynamic Workload Management
Simplified Lab Deployments • Target: Development Lab Manager • Problems faced: • Geometric growth in complexity of product versions and requirements, supported platforms and cross dependencies • Shorten response time for customer problems • Exploding HVAC, storage and hardware costs • Customer benefits: • Reduce storage costs with Dynamic Provisioning and Simplified Storage Management • Faster response and development time with snapshot images • Better quality through automated coverage of all supported platforms • Lifecycle management of the images
XenDesktop Deployments • Target: Desktop IT Director • Problems faced: • Increased complexity of managing disparate images • Exploding storage costs for centralized desktop images • Lack of lifecycle image management tools • Customer benefits: • The power of a single image • Instant provisioning of 1000s of images • Dramatic storage cost savings with dynamic provisioning and simplified storage • Leverage existing storage features, infrastructure and expertise
Dynamic Server Provisioning • Target: Server IT Director • Problems faced: • Exploding storage costs • Lack of image management tools • Lack of business charge back mechanisms • Unable to leverage existing investments in storage infrastructure • Customer benefits: • On-demand streaming of server workloads. • Dynamically provision workloads to any physical or virtual server • Image catalog consolidates images required to run all workloads • Supports streaming to XenServer and Hyper-V • Can stream Hyper-V to a bare metal machine
One • One copy of each app • One desktop OS image • One image of each workload • One password & identity • One instance of data • One user experience
One Build once. Leverage infinitely.
IT Wins Users Win 88% LESS worker downtime 78% BETTER IT staff productivity 29% LOWER IT operations costs 40% LOWER HW and SW costs Source: Gartner 2008