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The Secret to Choosing a Successful Virtual Desktop Model. Danny Allan, CTO March 10, 2012. Agenda. Future of the Desktop. What is a virtual desktop?. Licensing considerations. Choosing the right model . Personal desktop today. User Profile. Personal data. Corporate data. AV. UCS.
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The Secret to Choosing aSuccessful Virtual DesktopModel Danny Allan, CTO March 10, 2012
Agenda Future of the Desktop What is a virtual desktop? Licensing considerations Choosing the right model ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Personal desktop today User Profile Personal data Corporate data AV UCS Office Corp Operating System ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Vision ©2009 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Desired characteristics of a desktop • Availability • Any device, any time, everywhere • Secure and private • Pay for usage • Elastic • Compute • Applications • Storage • Multiple environments ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
No more … • Technical issues • Poor performance • Duplicate data • Application conflict • Updates • Patching • Application conflict • Hardware migration • Business issues • Capital expenditure • Business scalability issues • Loss of productivity • Lost data • Untrusted environments ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Cloud Desktop of Tomorrow Shared Space Elastic Compute WorkSpace SocialSpace PersonalSpace Available Everywhere FederatedIdentity ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Need to Virtualize ©2009 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Hardware + software = Inflexible User Profile Personal data Corporate data Applications Linux Non-persistent Operating System Windows 7 ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Future of the Corporate Desktop Users Connect Assemble Identity Identity Data Data Applications Applications OS OS ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Traditional Desktop Desktop Virtualization & Cloud Overview ©2009 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Agenda Future of the Desktop What is a virtual desktop? Licensing considerations Choosing the right model ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Even Simple Desktops can be Complex Operating System Application Delivery Mapping Types Hardware Models Persistence User Storage Licensing ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Desktop Model Complexity ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Terminology Complexity HostedVDI HostedPersonal HostedShared HostedApps Data Data Data Data App 1 App 1 App 1 App 1 App 2 App 2 App 2 App 2 App 3 App 3 App 3 App 3 Windows 7 Server 2008 Server 2008 Server 2008 DaaS Cloud Platform Compute Controller NetworkController Storage Controller ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Agenda Future of the Desktop What is a virtual desktop? Licensing considerations Choosing the right model ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
DISCLAIMER • Do not take my word on the following slides • You should talk to your MS licensing expert • I am not a rocket scientist and the Microsoft licensing tomes weigh more than I do (not including the exceptions and special cases) • My head hurts ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Two days old … http://blogs.technet.com/b/volume-licensing/archive/2012/03/08/delivery-of-desktop-like- functionality-through-outsourcer-arrangements-and-service-provider-license-agreements.aspx ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Licensing Windows Desktops ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Four key things to understand about VDA • Microsoft licenses Windows for virtual desktops by access device • You must own the license • Extended roaming rights • If you are using a public cloud, you must ensure dedicated hardware for anything running an instance of Microsoft software http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/c/7/5c727885-ec15-4920-818b-4d140ec6c38a/SA_Customer_Virtual_Desktop_Brochure.pdf http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/4/724F9D8D-1330-4F44-B47D-0CB38DE7DB85/Microsoft%20VDI%20Suites%20and%20Windows%20VDA%20FAQ%20v3%201.pdf ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Agenda Future of the Desktop What is a virtual desktop? Licensing considerations Choosing the right model ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
One simple question ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
An industry secret ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Build, buy or wait? ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
OK … Let’s go Virtual ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.
Questions?? Please feel free to contact me with questions or feedback danny.allan@desktone.com ©2012 Desktone, Inc. All rights reserved.