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Claudio Mascaro, BCD-Sintrag AG, SwitzerlandDaniel Künzli, Citrix Systems GmbH, Switzerland

Access Gateway

Branch Repeater

CitrixReceiver XenApp

XenDesktop

XenServer

NetScaler

Secure access to Citrix app and desktop virtualizationAn integrated delivery infrastructure

Delivery

Network

…the access should be fast and highly available

... and it should not look like this.

When all Application and Data is centralized…..

Citrix Branch Repeater

… also in Branch Repeater VPX

HDX WAN Optimization in Branch Repeater

Adaptive

Protocol

Acceleration

Adaptive

Compression

Adaptive

TCP Flow

Control

Traffic

Prioritization

And QoS

Flexibility to Meet All Your Needs

Branch Repeater Product Family

Repeater

AppliancesRepeater Plug-in

– Software Client

Branch Repeater

with Windows

Server and Branch

Repeater

Appliances

Branch Repeater

VPX – Virtual

Appliance Software

WAN Optimization

Speed 50X 30X 2X 2.5X 6X

Bandwidth

Savings99% 99% 89% 97% 97%

Support more users & desktops on existing WAN, Cut WAN Op costs

Branch Repeater = Breakthrough WAN Performance

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Branch Repeater 6.0

Includes Branch Repeater VPX, Branch Repeater and Repeater

Excludes Repeater Plug-in and Branch Repeater with Windows Server

Advanced traffic classification, prioritization and reporting

Improved XenDesktop and XenApp acceleration

HTTP Caching for Internet browsing and video

Clustering via NetScaler

SMB 2, Encrypted MAPI and Outlook/Exchange 2010 Acceleration

Centralized licensing – Citrix License ServerWAN Optimization

Auto discover XenDesktop ―desktop groups‖ and XenApp ―published applications‖

Powerful visibility & control of XenDesktop and XenApp

Prioritize ICA traffic based on desktop group name, published app name or ICA priority tag

User 1

Citrix Access Gateway

What is Citrix Access Gateway?

Citrix Access Gateway™ is the only secure application and desktop access solution that provides administrators with application-level control while empowering users with access from anywhere.

SmartAccessBest Performance

& ScalabilityEasy to Use and Deploy

Citrix SmartAccess

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Other SSL VPNs only go this far

What Resources?

Who and Where?

Endpoint AnalysisAuthentication

Access Control

Which

User

What

Device

What

Location

What

Authentication

Web and

File

Resources

Networks

Mail

Servers

Applications

Repeater

Acceleration

How Fast?

How?

Action Control

VPN

Access

Clientless Access

XenApp

•Applications

•Virtual

Channels

XenDesktop

•Desktops

•Virtual

Channels

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Authentication

• LDAP password changing

• Form based single sign-on

• Group based logon control

• Nested LDAP group extraction

• Password extraction during one time password authentication

• Radius Support

• Smart Card Support

Seamless access through Citrix Receiver

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•Receiver for Windows

•Receiver for Mac

•Receiver for Linux

•Receiver for iPhone

•Receiver for Android (in development)

•Receiver for Blackberry (in development)

•Receiver for Java

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Buy NetScaler to Achieve Business Continuity with AG + Global Server Load Balancing

Distributes SSL VPN traffic across multiple sites

Route client connections to the nearest or most available site

What’s What? Access Gateway & NetScaler

How NetScaler Adds Value to XenApp and XenDesktop

• Huge Scalability

• Secure Access

• High Availability

• DR/BC

• Integrated Web Interface option

Remote UserBranch Office

Home OfficeTablet

Secure Gateway

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

HQ Office

XenDesktop Farm XenServer Resource Pool

Active

DirectoryData Store

License

Server DHCP

Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop 1

Personalization: User A

Apps: Office

OS: Vista

Virtual Desktop 2

Personalization: User B

Apps: Office

OS: XP

Virtual Desktop 3

Personalization:

Apps:

OS:

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F i

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a l

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Personalization

Applications

OS

Provisioning

Server

XenApp

Controller

File Share

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

Data

Collector

Vista Windows

XP

Windows

7

User

A

User

B

User

C

User

D

User

E

Web

Interface

Driving Customer Value and Citrix Differentiation

Remote UserBranch Office

Home OfficeTablet

NetScaler

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

HQ Office

XenDesktop Farm XenServer Resource Pool

Active

DirectoryData Store

License

Server DHCP

Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop 1

Personalization: User A

Apps: Office

OS: Vista

Virtual Desktop 2

Personalization: User B

Apps: Office

OS: XP

Virtual Desktop 3

Personalization:

Apps:

OS:

F i

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a l

l

F i

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a l

l

Personalization

Applications

OS

Provisioning

Server

XenApp

Controller

File Share

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

Data

Collector

Vista Windows

XP

Windows

7

User

A

User

B

User

C

User

D

User

E

Web

Interface

Secure Access

Remote UserBranch Office

Home OfficeTablet

NetScaler

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

HQ Office

XenDesktop Farm XenServer Resource Pool

Active

DirectoryData Store

License

Server DHCP

Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop 1

Personalization: User A

Apps: Office

OS: Vista

Virtual Desktop 2

Personalization: User B

Apps: Office

OS: XP

Virtual Desktop 3

Personalization:

Apps:

OS:

F i

r e w

a l

l

F i

r e w

a l

l

Personalization

Applications

OS

Provisioning

Server

XenApp

Controller

File Share

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

Data

Collector

Vista Windows

XP

Windows

7

User

A

User

B

User

C

User

D

User

E

Web

Interface

Strong SLAs

Secure Access

Remote UserBranch Office

Home OfficeTablet

NetScaler

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

HQ Office

XenDesktop Farm XenServer Resource Pool

Active

DirectoryData Store

License

Server DHCP

Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop 1

Personalization: User A

Apps: Office

OS: Vista

Virtual Desktop 2

Personalization: User B

Apps: Office

OS: XP

Virtual Desktop 3

Personalization:

Apps:

OS:

F i

r e w

a l

l

F i

r e w

a l

l

Personalization

Applications

OS

Provisioning

Server

XenApp

Controller

File Share

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

Data

Collector

Vista Windows

XP

Windows

7

User

A

User

B

User

C

User

D

User

E

Web

Interface

Strong SLAs

Secure Access

Remote User

Branch Office

Home Office

Tablet

NetScaler

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

HQ Office

XenDesktop Farm XenServer Resource Pool

Active

Directory Data

Store License

Server DHCP

Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop 1

Personalization: User A

Apps: Office

OS: Vista

Virtual Desktop 2

Personalization: User B

Apps: Office

OS: XP

Virtual Desktop 3

Personalization:

Apps:

OS:

F i

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a l

l

F i

r e w

a l

l

Personalization

Applications

OS

Provisioning

Server

XenApp

Controller

File Share

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

Data

Collector

Vista Windows

XP

Windows

7

User

A

User

B

User

C

User

D

User

E

Web

Interfac

e

Global

Availability

Remote User

Branch Office

Home Office

Tablet

NetScaler

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

HQ Office

XenDesktop Farm XenServer Resource Pool

Active

Directory Data

Store License

Server DHCP

Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop 1

Personalization: User A

Apps: Office

OS: Vista

Virtual Desktop 2

Personalization: User B

Apps: Office

OS: XP

Virtual Desktop 3

Personalization:

Apps:

OS:

F i

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a l

l

F i

r e w

a l

l

Personalization

Applications

OS

Provisioning

Server

XenApp

Controller

File Share

Desktop

Delivery

Controller

Data

Collector

Vista Windows

XP

Windows

7

User

A

User

B

User

C

User

D

User

E

Web

Interfac

e

Driving Customer Value and Citrix Differentiation

Performance Offload SecurityAvailability

ADC Provides a Key Point of Control

• World-class L4-L7load balancing

• Intelligent servicehealth monitoring

• Caching

• Compression

• Connectionpooling

• Web 2.0 offload

• SSL processing

• Access GatewaySSL VPN

• Applicationfirewall

● 75% lower Power Consumption● Less Data Center Space● Lower Cooling● Completely Integrated

Going Green with NetScaler

NetScaler Way

~1800 Watts 450 Watts

One Way

Point Products

Load Balancer/L7 Switch

Application Firewall

Caching Appliance

SSL VPN

Global Server Load Balancing

Performance Monitoring

Savings $Thousands/Every Year

50 Gbps

20 Gbps

10 Gbps

5Gbps

20

Nets

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Number of NetScaler Instances

1Gbps

NetScaler Pay-As-You-Grow – Bringing Optimal Price/Performance

1

License Upgrade

500 Mbps.

5K TPS

10Mb

200Mb

3 Gbps

1 GbpsMPX 5500

1-3Gbps.

20K TPS

MPX 9500

MPX 7500

License Upgrade

License Upgrade

20-50 Gbps

220K TPS

MPX 21500

MPX 175008-40 Gbps

Lights out Mgt.

225K TPS

MPX 20500

MPX 11500

NetScaler for MS Apps andother Websites

• Cuts deployment times from days to minutes

• Comprehensively defines applications

• Consolidates app-specific configuration in one place

• Simplifies ongoing lifecycle management

• Templates available for OWA, Sharepoint, SAP NetWeaver, Oracle, Gereric Web-App

• http://community.citrix.com/display/ns/AppExpertTemplates

Application Templates

Workloads being load-balanced and optimized by VPX &

managed from within the SCVMM

• Load-balance• Optimize• Secure• Report

PRO-MP based

monitoring

NetScaler VPX Virtual

Appliance

Simplified app management and user reporting

Powershell based

rapid provisioning

Dynamic Capacity Expansion

PRO-tip based alerting for application outage and performance issues

Hyper-V based physical host resource pool

Exchange Sharepoint Lync

Content Switching ✔ ✔ ✔

Monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔

TCP Multiplexing ✔ ✔ ✔

SSL Acceleration/Offload ✔ ✔

HTTP Compression ✔ ✔

GSLB ✔ ✔ ✔

DDoS ✔ ✔ ✔

AAA ✔ ✔

Application Firewall ✔ ✔

Integrated Caching ✔

DataStream ✔ ✔ ✔

CloudBridge ✔ ✔

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Relevant Features

*Source: technet.microsoft.com

Citrix NetScaler – The LB of choice for MSFT apps

Citrix Open Cloud

Choice of Many Cloud Models

Private

Cloud

Hybrid

Public

Cloud Apps

Public Cloud InfrastructureManaged

Cloud

So … Design for Any-to-Any Hybrid Architectures

Enterprise Premise Private/Public Cloud

LDAP

Database Server

Storage

Application Workload

App Web

Network X Network Y

Before Migrating to the Cloud

Application requires

access to web server,

DB and LDAP

Enterprise Premise Private/Public Cloud

LDAP

Database Server

Storage

Application Workload

Web

Network X Network Y

Without A Bridge

Application Workload

App

Application still requires

access to web server,

DB and LDAP

No knowledge of

premise datacenter.

Different subnet

configuration than

premise datacenter

Private/Public Cloud

Network X

Enterprise Premise

LDAP

Database Server

Storage

Application Workload

Web

Network X

With A Bridge

Application Workload

AppCloudBridge

Secure “bridge”

enabling network

transparency

Enable connectivity

back to premise

datacenter

Connects your datacenter to any cloud with full transparency, security and performance

L2 Tunnel

IPSec TunnelHybrid Cloud

Traditional

Datacenter

Network X

A truly network-transparent

WAN optimization solution that

doesn’t rely on disruptive

tunneling techniques.

Netscaler MPX / VPX

Optimizes application

availability through advanced

L4-7 load balancing and traffic

management.

Global load balancing improves

performance as remote users

have their sessions routed to the

closest or best performing

datacenter.

OpenCloud Bridge in a NetShell

Cloud Bridge

NEW!

Branch Repeater VPX

IntroducingCitrix CloudGateway™

Aggregate, orchestrate & deliver apps & data to any device

Citrix

CloudGateway

Citrix

Receiver

Aggregate

& Control

Access &

Self-Service

CloudGateway Components

Gateway

services

XenApp

XenDesktop

Web & SaaS

Mobile

Sto

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se

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es

Data

StoreFront services

StoreFront

services

Native Receivers

Browser desktopsappsSaaSdata

mobile

Native Receivers

Browser

Authentication

Receiver

for

Web

Store

Launch

desktopsappsSaaSdata

mobile

StoreFront services