This document discusses desktop virtualization options including device-centric and user-centric approaches. Device-centric options include locally installed applications, virtual application streaming, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) where the full desktop environment runs in a virtual machine on a remote server. User-centric options allow accessing applications from any device through dynamically streamed software or a virtual desktop. The document recommends a VDI solution from Citrix and Microsoft using XenDesktop and Windows Server for its integrated management, best user experience, and lower total cost of ownership.
4. Virtual Application streaming
Applications delivered virtually
Data stored on network, with folder redirection/replication
5. Dynamically streaming software as a centrally managed service
Streams applications to users Readily accessible applications
Centralizes permissions Accelerate Windows deployment
Never installs applications Accelerate application recovery
Isolates applications Reduced application conflicts
Provide real-time metering reports Minimize app-to-app compatibility testing
Leverage existing PC Management investments
Total Direct Cost Savings of $82/PC/year*
6. The apps are ^somewhere else ̄, but I can use them from here
execute in the datacenter
Allows abstraction from physical details of client device
Leverages data-center resources (scale and elasticity)
7. A complete virtual PC image, running ^somewhere else ̄
virtual machine running in the datacenter
Client image is fully controlled/managed within datacenter
Allows abstraction from physical details of client device
Leverages datacenter resources (scale and elasticity)
9. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (or VDI) is an architectural model where a client OS runs in a
server-based virtual machine environment and interacts with the user via a network connection
The storage and execution of a desktop workload (OS,
apps, data) is centralized on a virtual machine in the
datacenter
VDI is not, by itself, a complete
desktop virtualization strategy.
Presentation of the UI is managed via a remote
desktop protocol (such as RDP or ICA) to client devices
14. Provide a Managed Desktop to Unmanaged Devices
? Contract workers
? Employee-owned PCs
Centralize Desktop Management for Remote Locations
? Branch offices
? Offshore locations
Task Worker Scenarios
? Call center workers
? Shared terminals, such as factory kiosks / nursing stations
Desktops That Demand High Levels of Security and Compliance
? Non-mobile desktops in specific industries (i.e. financial services / healthcare / government)
15. Windows 7 + Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
16. Citrix C Microsoft VDI solution
XenDesktop XenApp
(Now Ships w/ Hyper-V)
Essentials
for Hyper-V
Windows
SAVDA
17. Citrix C Microsoft VDI solution
Best user experience Integrated management Better TCO
Single console for physical, virtual and Lowest infrastructure costs amongst
The Best Remote Experience
session based desktops competitive VDI
Heterogeneous Infrastructure
Excellent performance on LAN and WAN Reduced storage costs
management
Built on Windows Server Operating System
Familiar Platform
Leverage Existing Tools & Skills