citrix excalibur - first look@a glance

Stephan Pfister

Fritz & Macziol (Schweiz) AG

Apps & Desktops as-a-Service XenDesktop 7

Project AvalonQuick Overview

Cloud is NOT a PlaceIt is not an organization. It is no longer the exception. It is the design center

Private

Cloud

Public

Cloud

• Enabling Desktop & Apps as a Service

requires:

ᵒ On-demand self-service

ᵒ Cloud-scale orchestration

ᵒ Global, multi-site management

ᵒ Multi-tenant isolation

ᵒ Rapid elasticity

ᵒ Measured services

Project ExcaliburXenDesktop 7

Simplicity & Mobility

Automation & Cloud

Project Avalon :Windows as a Service

Project Merlin

Foundation for

Windows as a ServiceWith FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA)

FlexCast Delivery TechnologySimplified approaches to deployment flexibility

Central ManagementApplication & Desktop Delivery | Personalization | Access Policies | Image Management |

Central Execution Local Execution

Hosted VDIHDX 3D Pro,

Dedicated or pooled

desktop virtual

machines

Hosted Shared

Windows Server

session-based desktop

or apps

Local HypervisorType 1 Hypervisor for PCs and Laptops with

XenClientSynchronizer

FlexCast Management XenClient

Physical PCs

Physical workstations or

Remote PC access

technology

DeliveryServices Console

XenApp 6.5 Farm(IMA)

XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 Site(FMA)

Citrix Studio

Web Interface

Receiver

DB DB

IMA

IMA CBP

XenAppController

Server OSWorkers

Desktop OSWorkers

Delivery Controller

Power &Capacity

Mgmt

Provisioning ServicesPVS

WMI

PVS ConsolePCM

Console

Today: Separation of Owners & RolesDifferent Desktops & Apps Architectures

EdgeSightConsole

VDA

Provisioning Server

EdgeSight

AD Configuration Wizard

Desktop Delivery Controller Console

Web Interface Console

PolicyConsole

GoToAssist

App Mgmt Console

License Management Console

Desktop Update Manager

Setup Wizard

CitrixStudio

Storefront / Receiver for Web

Receiver

DB

Server OSWorkers

Desktop OSWorkers

Deliver Controller

Provisioning Services

XenDesktop 7: Unified Service Delivery TeamFlexCast Management Architecture

VDA VDA

XenDesktop 7:

A Closer Look at

New Features & Benefits

Physical VDIHosted

SharedLocal

Heavy workloads,Remote PC access

3D Workloads,Personal Desktops

Scalable,Affordable

LaptopUsersXenApp 7 / XenDesktop 7 XenClient

XenDesktop 7 Infrastructure

Server 2008R2 / Server 2012

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XenDesktop 7

Simplified Installation

Integrated installation of:

- Delivery Controller

- Citrix Studio

- Citrix Director

- License Serer

- StoreFront

- Profile Manager

- Personal vDisk

Configuration Testing: Minimizes Config/Setup Errors

At completion of:

• Full deployment

• Creating a host, catalog,

delivery group

• Joining a site

• …and more

Citrix Studio

• Management console for: ᵒ delegated admin & config,

logging,

ᵒ apps & desktop publishing,

ᵒ user/computer policies,

ᵒ licensing, StoreFront,

ᵒ and more…

• Windows Server 2008R2

and Windows Server 2012

• MMC snap-in

Delegated Administration: Granular administration using Roles & Scopes

• Full admin

• Host admins

• Delivery Group admin

• Catalog

• Read-only

• Help desk admin

• Custom admin

Roles Scopes

• Delivery Groups

• Machine Catalog

• Host Connection

• Application

Configuration Logging:Two-Tiers - high-level & detail tasks

• High-level logging summary,

plus detailed resulting tasks

• Integrates with

Director/historic trending for

root cause analysis

• Powerful search feature

• Reports available in HTML or

CSV formats

Publishing Applications

Assigning published applications – Visibility Filter

Office 2013 Delivery Group (Assigned to Domain Users) Domain Users

Sales

Marketing

Operations

VDA1 VDA2

VDA3 VDA4

Application & Desktop:Delivery made simple & scalable

• Deliver apps and desktops

from servers and desktop

OS’es

• Machine Creation Services

for server and desktop OS

workloads

• Publish 10’s of apps at once

• Integrated App-V 5 support

Working with applications in Studio

App-V integration

App-V Settings in Citrix Studio

App-V Publishing in Citrix Studio

Citrix Director

Using Director with EdgeSight

Next generation Director

• Single pane of glass

ᵒ Instant “real-time” troubleshooting and

environment health metrics across sites

• Integration of EdgeSight features ᵒ Performance management and network analysis

• Aggregation of logging information

ᵒ Pinpoints root cause of connection and machine

failures

• End user experience monitoring

ᵒ Logon analysis to pinpoint issues or delays

TM

Performance management

Health and capacity assurance

Historical trending

EdgeSight features

Network analysis

Identify bottlenecks due to the network in your

XenDesktop environment

Powered by NetScaler HDX Insight

TM

XenDesktop 7

Single Site

Director 2.1

Site A Site B Site C

Help Desk and Troubleshooting / Environment health

Director

EdgeSight Performance management

Director with EdgeSight

XenDesktop 7

Site A Site B Site C

DirectorHistorical Trends and Analytics

Managing and optimizing capacity

TM

TM

TM

EdgeSight Network analysis

Director with EdgeSight

XenDesktop 7

Site A Site B Site C

HDX Insight

Isolating and managing network performance

Network - Deep Packet Analysis

TM

TM

Citrix Director: Real-time Assessment

Citrix Receiver HDX features

http://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/e

n_us/documents/products/citrix-receiver-

feature-matrix.pdf

Accelerating desktop transformation

•User experience

•Cost reduction

•Simplicity & supportability

Focus areas for HDX in XenDesktop 7

• Major improvements in video quality and bandwidth efficiency

• Scalable, cost-effective 3D graphics

• Full HDX experience on any device

• Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 desktops and apps

• Support for Microsoft’s Lync 2013 VDI Plug-in

• Local App Access (reverse seamless)

HDX goals for XenDesktop 7

HDX goes MobileOptimized for a mobile world Designed for 3G/4G networks

Tablet and Smartphone codec

acceleration

Smooth, native touch experience

Industry leading H.264-based deep

compression algorithm:

2X increase in frame rate*

Half the bandwidth*

Up to 10x reduction in bit rate

when playing HD videos over a low

speed connection

*As compared to previous industry leading HDX implementations

HDX Seamless Local AppsSeamless integration of local Windows apps

Great for apps that need or benefit

from local resources

Citrix Receiver for nested apps

DVD burners

Non-secure web browsers

Cloud-based video collaboration

App running

locally, or from

Receiver…

…Integrated

into virtual

desktop

Optimized for

HDFacesTM

OpenGL Software Accelerator

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• New software rasterizer for OpenGL apps

• An alternative to the OpenGL 1.1 software rasterizer included with Windowsᵒ Generally provides much faster rendering performance

ᵒ Leverages SSE4.1 and AVX

ᵒ Supports OpenGL 2.1

• Installs in the program folder of the OpenGL app

• App compatibility expected to be high but must be verified; Citrix cannot

guarantee compatibility with all OpenGL apps

• Targets apps and use cases where GPU hardware acceleration is not needed

or cannot be cost-justified but where the Microsoft OpenGL software

rasterizer is inadequate

Nvidia Grid Technology

• NEW OpenGL support

• NEW industry-first direct GPU

sharing for hosted shared apps

• NEW codec for remote performance

• XenServer vGPU support for VDI

ᵒ Public beta coming soon

• Dell, HP and IBM offering NVIDIA

GRID-based server, Citrix, Microsoft

and Vmware offering GRID-enabled

software

Lync client delivery from XD/XA/ViaB

•

ᵒ Windows, Linux x86, Mac

ᵒ Planned: Linux ARM via HDX SoC

•ᵒ Windows, Linux x86, Mac, ThinOS*

ᵒ Planned: Linux ARM via HDX SoC

• New:

•

•

XenDesktop 7 Editions

New XenDesktop 7 Platform, New Editions

VDI App

Server-based Apps

and Desktops

Full FlexCastVDI only

Platinum

Full FlexCast

and Cloud-Ready

Enterprise

XenDesktop 7

XenDesktop App Edition &

XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2

XenDesktop Apps Edition

• Delivers server-hosted desktops and apps, and VM-

hosted apps from FMA architecture

• Enables use of Machine Creation Services (MCS) to

rapidly provisioning, deliver apps/desktops from Windows

Server 2012, leverage the latest HDX enhancements

• Works along side existing XenApp-IMA deployment

• Available to XenApp-Enterprise and Platinum customers:

ᵒ Use your existing XenApp licenses!

• Built for Cloud

App

Edition

Server-based Apps

and Desktops

XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2Includes XenDesktop 7 Apps Edition!

Acceleration

OpenGL support for stunning graphics

at lower cost using GPU sharing

Performance

Up to 4X faster downloads/uploads

* Mobile enabled by XenMobile, data powered by ShareFile

Experience

Unified app store for desktops, apps, mobile and

data*

New support for audio and video on mobile devices

Compatibility

Virtualize apps faster with AppDNA**

Lync 2013 Optimization Pack

XenApp Connector SCCM 2012

Hyper-V 3 support

XenDesktop 7 Apps edition***

** Platinum only

*** Enterprise and Platinum only

Citrix additional components

Provisioning Services 7

Store Front Server

Universal Print Server

XenServer 6.2

• License Modell changed from server license to CPU based licensing

• Available as an open source download

• Supporting up to 500 vm’s and 3250 VCPUs per Host

• New feature clone on boot for MCS

• Much better monitoring possibilites than before

• No workload Balancing

• No VM Protection & Recovery

• No SCOM Integration. Web Self Service and XenConvert

XenClient Enterprise 5.0

XenMobile Enterprise

Work better. Live better.