FlexCast engineering for the end-user David Gaunt Lead Systems Engineer

Agenda

• Managing your users & their expectations

• Why, who, what, how (without the “WTF”)

• Hosted Shared vs. Hosted VDI

• Management headaches and their cures

Users – who’d have ‘em?

End users (they’re customers too!)

• Not great fans of change

• Painless

• Seamless

• Minimal re-training

“I don’t care” “Mmm ports &

protocols! ”

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Task Workers Guest Workers Remote Workers Office Workers

Mobile Workers

Why, Who, What, How

Doing things differently better

The ‘Why’

• People can work better, from anywhere, their way

• Smarter management of desktops & apps

Not the band…

The ‘Who’

#1 – IT consumers “I like to work this way”

#2 – IT users “I’ve been told to work this way”

desktop

Desktops or Apps or both?

The ‘What’

• Desktop replacement?

• Application rollout?

• Tablet devices?

• BOYD?

• Bit o’ this, bit o’ that?

The ‘How’

Desktops Applications

•Hosted VDI

•Hosted Shared

•Streamed VHD

•XenClient

•Existing Client

•Seamless (XenApp)

•Seamless (VM Hosted)

•Streamed

•Personal vDisk/RingCube

Building blocks

The ‘How’

XenApp Apps

XenApp Desktop

User Profile

Personal vDisk

Win7 Desktop

User

Device

Hosted

Apps

Streamed

Apps

Hosted VDI, Hosted Shared (or something else)

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Mobile

users

Task

workers

Remote

workers

Office

workers

Guest

workers

Hosted

VDI Streamed

VHD

Hosted

Shared Local

VM

• Use XenApp for as much as possible • Application delivery

• Costs less overall

• Easier to manage

• Better performance

• Six-figure scalability

• Fits ‘most’ purposes

• Win7 vs 2008 R2

• It’s just a place to run an app

Hosted Shared or Hosted VDI

What do your apps require?

Do you use a

desktop?

No

Yes Do you intend to

replace it? Yes

With a

Thin client? Yes

No

Hosted Shared or Hosted VDI

No

Applications from XenApp

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Hosted Shared or Hosted VDI

Do you use a

desktop?

No

Yes Do you intend to

replace it? Yes

With a

Thin client? Yes

No No

Applications from XenApp

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p a

nd

ap

ps

Hosted Shared or Hosted VDI

Do you use a

desktop?

No

Yes Do you intend to

replace it? Yes

With a

Thin client? Yes

No No

Applications from XenApp

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Will your apps

run on XenApp?

Yes

No

Are the apps

resource hungry?

Yes

No

Hosted Shared

Hosted VDI

Hosted Shared or Hosted VDI

Do you use a

desktop?

No

Yes Do you intend to

replace it? Yes

With a

Thin client? Yes

No No

Applications from XenApp

Ho

ste

d D

eskto

p a

nd

ap

ps

Will your apps

run on XenApp?

Yes

No

Are the apps

resource hungry?

Yes

No

Hosted Shared

Hosted VDI

Citrix XenDesktop – FlexCast™ delivery technology Hosted desktop delivery models

hosted shared desktop

400-500 users per server

1 user per Blade PC

Blade PC Blade PC

VM VM VM VM

80-100 VMs per server

Apps

User Profile

Desktop OS

Management Headaches (and their cures)

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Complexity is optional

Curing Management Headaches

• Go with what you know

• Separate as much as possible

• FlexCast means Provisioning Services • Single image

• Lower storage costs

• Fewer IOPS

Receiver bits

Curing Management Headaches

• Thin client & repurposed desktops • Citrix Desktop Lock

• AutoLaunch “MyDesktop”

• Mobile Receivers • Self Service

• StoreFront with “FEATURED:Auto”

• Hosted Desktops • Session Pre-Launch (6.5 only)

• Tinyurl.com/sessionprelaunch

• Best in 1:1 CCU or U/D

Receiver bits

Curing Management Headaches

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• Desktops • Session Pre-Launch (6.5 only)

• http://Tinyurl.com/sessionprelaunch

• Best in 1:1 CCU or U/D

• Use Merchandising Server • Endpoint, Hosted & VDI desktops

Learn from others (ie, you lot!)

• http://virtualfeller.com

• Twitter

• http://blogs.citrix.com

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