What’s New in XenDesktop 5.6 & Feature Pack 1

What’s New in XenDesktop 5.6Available March 09, 2012

• Expand service to demanding users with Personal vDisk

• Mobilize Windows Apps with XenApp

• Leverage Microsoft System Center 2012 to streamline virtual and physical desktop management

• Save as much as 65% in storage costs with Personal vDisk

• XenClient Synchronizer 2.1 delivers simplified, scalable, image management

Accelerate Transformation & Reduce

Costs

• Persistent personalization of user profile and applications, including user installed and entitlement based apps

• Compatible with existing PCLCM and application virtualization solutions such as SCCM, App-V and XenApp

• 100% persistence while taking advantage of VDI pooled storage tools

• Near zero management overhead

What Is Citrix Personal vDisk?

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VDI Desktop Models – Assigned Desktops

Increased storage

High per user cost

Increased management overhead

Complex and unique base images

Highly personalized for users

Increased user acceptance

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VDI Desktop Models – Pooled Desktops

Profile-based personalization only

Poor user acceptance

Limited scope/user base

Reduced storage requirements

Centralized management

Uptime & predictability

Common Base Image

Operating System

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Enterprise scope

Highly personalized for users

Increased user acceptance

Reduced infrastructure requirements

Centralized management

Uptime & predictabilityCommon Base Image

Operating System

BASE PARENT VM

Seamless management for pooled/personal desktops

Common console to manage physical and virtual desktops

Leverage reporting, monitoring and policy tools

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012

Mobile App Access – with XenApp 6.5

•Native touch-friendly experience

•Auto keyboard pop-up

•Device specific selector controls

•Additional Mobility controls such as GPS, camera available through Mobile App Access SDK.

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For Hosted-Shared FlexCast desktop delivery modelTablet Optimized Desktops

•Mobile device auto-recognized

•Desktop is dynamically re-skinned

•Less Pinching and Zooming

•Touch friendly navigation

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• Simplified Windows Image Management

• Available in 5 new languages

XenClient 2.1

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What’s New in Feature Pack 1 for XenDesktop 5.6Available June 29, 2012

• Extend FlexCast with secure mobile access to office-based PCs

• Optimized unified communications

• Virtual desktop printing from any device

• HDX 3D Pro new deep compression

• Mobile app access for VDI

• New class of low-cost devices for virtual desktops and apps

Accelerate Transformation & Reduce

Costs

Physical Streamed VDIHostedShared

Local

Scalable Affordable

Personal VDI3D workloads

Remote PC

Labs and schools

XenClient for laptops

FlexCast: People centric – and use case driven

Windows apps and data

Secure, mobile access to office-based PCs

Auto-provision for 1000’s of users

Instant benefit to end-users

Simplified on ramp for desktop virtualization

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XenDesktop optimized unified communications

• Point to point audio and video

• No compromise voice and video quality

• Cisco VXI Unified Communications

solution first to support

• Point-to-Point Connector for Microsoft Lync 2010 included in XenDesktop 5.6 FP1

Universal Printing

Virtual desktop printing from any device

Locally attached or network printers

Simple driver management

Significant WAN improvements

Compressed print data

Tunneled via CGP

Universal print server components

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UP-WS over HTTP

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• Fluid experience with full screen 3D Apps

• Lower GPU and CPU hardware cost

• 50% reduction in bandwidth requirements from 2 MB to 1 MB

HDX 3D Pro with New! Deep compression codec

Mobile App Access – now for VDI as well

•Native touch-friendly experience

•Auto keyboard pop-up

•Device specific selector controls

•Additional Mobility controls such as GPS, camera available through the Mobility Pack SDK.

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New Receiver supports HDX SoC Initiative

• New class of low-cost devices for virtual desktops and apps

• Hardware-based HDX optimizations

• Open standards-based program

• First devices announced at SynergyHDX Ready

System-on-a-Chip

Expanding the Client Virtualization MarketNew features in XenClient Enterprise 4.1

9X more devices

Enterprise class

management & scalability

Easier to use

Expand XenClient to more PCs than ever before with a dramatically expanded HCL

Delivered on the coolest new devices (Ultrabooks) Enable users to make full use of 3G/4G modems

Backend management supported on vSphere and Hyper-V Up to 10k endpoints for true enterprise scale deployments Enhanced policies and role-based administrative control deliver

the granularity IT needs to manage XenClient effectively.

Make XenClient feel more like a PC with in guest wireless control

Let XenClient update itself with automated over the air updates with no intervention needed from the end user

Built-in fast booting to Google Chrome environment

Work better. Live better.