Making a Seamless Move to Windows® 7

Imagine a migration that went so well, nobody noticed.

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Process/Timeline

PHASE I

Benchmark• Gather user data• Define success • Create project plan

PHASE II

Image Deployment• Create one

Master Image• Deploy remotely• Restore with

personalizations

PHASE III

Validate and Measure Success• ID and fix

performance issues• Disaster recovery and

repair, as needed• Quantify success

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PHASE I

Stratusphere ™ FIT

Gather user data

Define success

Create project plan

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PHASE IIPHASE I

Horizon Mirage ™

Create one Master Image

Deploy remotely

Restore with personalizations

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PHASE IIIPHASE IIPHASE I

Stratusphere ™ UX

ID and fix performance issues

Disaster recovery and repair, as needed

Quantify success

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Process / Timeline

PHASE I

Benchmark• Gather user data• Define success • Create project plan

PHASE II

Image Deployment• Create one

Master Image• Deploy remotely• Restore with

personalizations

PHASE III

Validate and Measure Success• ID and fix

performance issues• Disaster recovery and

repair, as needed• Quantify success

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PHASE I

Benchmark with Stratusphere™ FIT

Assess and quantify machine, user, and infrastructure metrics.

Provide visibility into user persona and authored data.

Access applications for usage and master image strategy.

Define the baseline user experience.

Design base image on actual usage metrics.

Group users into appropriate tiers based on consumption.

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PHASE I

Visibility Throughout Is Key

Workers’ Desktops

Target Image

How are users spending their time?

What are they consuming?

What is the baseline user experience?

Are image resources adequate and available?

Are problems developing?

Constraints and/or avoidable crashes ahead?

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PHASE I

Summary of Benefits

Collect data automatically.

Accurate data — no lost work time for users.

Reduce migration labor costs.

Accurate metrics lead to accurate planning.

Save on licensing costs.

Identify apps that users have but never use.

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Process / Timeline

PHASE I

Benchmark• Gather user data• Define success • Create project plan

PHASE II

Image Deployment• Create one

Master Image• Deploy remotely• Restore with

personalizations

PHASE III

Validate and Measure Success• ID and fix

performance issues• Disaster recovery and

repair, as needed• Quantify success

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PHASE IIPHASE I

Mirage™ Server

Centralized Images

Network-OptimizedSynchronization and Streaming

Windows® 7 Image

Desktops/Laptops with Mirage Client

Local Copies

Migrate Image Centrally and In-Place

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PHASE IIPHASE I

Windows 7Reference Machine

Reference CVD

Base Image CVD2

CVD1

Base Image is capturedfrom the Reference CVD.

Horizon Mirage™ Server

CVD3

Branch Reflector

The BI is downloaded to one or more Branch Reflectors.

Endpoints leverage Reflector to load new Base Image.

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PHASE IIPHASE I

Summary of Benefits

Better manage and optimize image creation.

Manage one Master Image vs. 300.

Achieve more migrations per day.

Centralized migration operations eliminate most or all PC visits.

Avoid loss of user files.

Quickly revert to original Windows XP, preserving user

personalizations and data.

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Process / Timeline

PHASE I

Benchmark• Gather user data• Define success • Create project plan

PHASE II

Image Deployment• Create one

Master Image• Deploy remotely• Restore with

personalizations

PHASE III

Validate and Measure Success• ID and fix

performance issues• Disaster recovery and

repair, as needed• Quantify success

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PHASE IIIPHASE IIPHASE I

Validate with Stratusphere™ UX

Ongoing and proactive monitoring—the ability to quantify UX.

Validate image changes to ensure optimal performance.

Identify rogue entities and/or bottlenecks to quickly remediate issues.

Enable "what-if" scenarios to plan for growth and changes.

Get support for mixed VMware Mirage and VMware View environments with single pane-of-glass monitoring.

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PHASE IIIPHASE IIPHASE I

Measure for SuccessReporting to ensure equal-to-better user experience

At-a-glance comparison of physical machines to Mirage-managed machines

Easy to see results to quickly determine if users are reaping the benefits of the transformation

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PHASE IIIPHASE IIPHASE I

Summary of Benefits

Prevent unplanned downtime.

Get fewer post-migration calls to the Help Desk.

Track system performance.

See from the desktop to the data center, and across all networks.

Measure success.

Built-in reports provide accurate ROI and TCO data.

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What a migration looks like when you simplify the process:

Save money. Reduce migration labor costs; save on licensing costs.

Save time. Reduce user downtime during migration; manage one image instead of 300.

Use fewer resources. Centralize migration operations; manage fewer post-migration calls.

Monitor proactively. Alert administrators to issues; prevent unplanned downtime.

Keep end-users productive. Optimize performance; provision resources quickly.

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Simplify the migration process — and execute it with speed and confidence.

Migration Timeline

T-3 T-2 T-1 T-0 Post-Migration

Monitor and measureall hardware,operating systems,and applications.

Easily discover allthe metrics you need before the move. Define what migration success will mean to you.

Define baselineof usage and userexperience.

Produce reports and use them to put a project plantogether.

Create a masterimage.

Create and deploy a mirror-perfect image (and manage one image instead of 300).

Conduct phasedimage deployment.

Set triggers to let you know when post-migrationperformance is less than ideal — and drill down to see where theproblem really is.Fix it before anyone reports it as an issue.

Monitor and compare.

Validate that migration worked properly.

Generate reports that quantify success.

Disaster recovery.

Use pre-migration snapshot for recovery and repair, as needed.

Recover systems due to lost, stolen, or broken PCs.

Imagine this: You controlled your

migration instead of it controlling you. You

migrated on time and on budget — with minimal

downtime and optimum performance during and

after the migration.  

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