Foundation for Windows as a Service - Cloud Advisors · XenApp Server (Controller & Delivery) WS08R2 Applications & Desktop ... Simplified Installation Integrated installation of:

Foundation for Windows as a Service

With FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA)

FlexCast Delivery Technology Simplified approaches to deployment flexibility

2

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

Central Execution Local Execution

Hosted VDI HDX 3D Pro,

Dedicated or pooled desktop virtual

machines

Hosted Shared Windows Server

session-based desktop or apps

Local Hypervisor Type 1 Hypervisor for PCs and Laptops with

XenClient Synchronizer

FlexCast Management XenClient

Physical PCs Physical workstations or

Remote PC access technology

Delivery Services Console

XenApp 6.5 Farm (IMA)

XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 Site (FMA)

Citrix Studio

Web Interface

Receiver

DB DB

IMA

IMA CBP

XenApp Controller

Server OS Workers

Desktop OS Workers

Delivery Controller

Power & Capacity Mgmt

Provisioning Services PVS

WMI

PVS Console PCM Console

Today: Separation of Owners & Roles Different Desktops & Apps Architectures

EdgeSight Console

VDA

Citrix Studio

Storefront / Receiver for Web

Receiver

DB

Server OS Workers

Desktop OS Workers

Delivery Controller

MCS Provisioning Services

XenDesktop 7: Unified Service Delivery Team FlexCast Management Architecture

VDA VDA

Citrix Director

Provisioning Console

FMA Brings Delivery & Management Flexibility

WS08R2

Applications & Desktop

Delivery Controller XenApp Server

(Controller & Delivery)

WS08R2


XenApp Server (Controller & Delivery)

WS08R2


Delivery Agent

WS08R2


XenApp Server (Controller & Delivery)

WS12


Delivery Agent

Win8


Delivery Agent

XenApp IMA XenDesktop FMA

1.   Reduces cost for delivering apps and desktop

2.   Delivers IT agility and management flexibility

3.   Enables scalability & cloud

FlexCast Management Architecture Three key takeaways:

Simple

Mobile

Secure

Desktop 7

8

XenDesktop 7

Simplified Installation

Integrated installation of: -  Delivery Controller -  Citrix Studio -  Citrix Director -  License Server -  StoreFront -  Profile Manager -  Personal vDisk

Install Configure Manage Support End User

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


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


Citrix Director: Troubleshooting and Monitoring

• Help Desk only • Real-‐Mme troubleshooMng

Help Desk

• Day 2 OperaMons • Site health • End-‐to-‐end visibility

TroubleshooMng Monitoring

• Auto-‐baselining specific to customer environment

• Historical analyMcs

Performance Management

• Deep network analysis

• Capacity management

Advanced AnalyMcs

Today XenDesktop 7

Unified Console – “Single pane of glass”


Citrix Director: Real-time Assessment


Citrix Director: Contextual troubleshooting


Citrix Director: Logon performance

Know how logon duraMon is affecMng end users


Citrix Director: Load Evaluation Trends

Application server load and impact on users


•  ICA deep packet analysis •  Latency and bandwidth effects •  Application and desktop usage

Citrix Director: Complete 360-view with network analysis


Platinum Edition

HDX goes Mobile Optimized 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: ü  2X increase in frame rate* ü Half the bandwidth* ü Up to 10x reduction in bit rate

when playing HD videos over a low speed connection

*As compared to previous industry leading HDX implementations


Integrated PC Remote Access Automated remote access assignment of users to corporate PCs

Secure, remote access to corporate PCs

•  New integrated catalog management •  New hardware accelerated H.264 compression


HDX Seamless Local Apps Seamless integration of local Windows apps

Great for apps that need or benefit from local resources ü  Citrix Receiver for nested apps ü  DVD burners ü  Non-secure web browsers ü  Cloud-based video collaboration

App running locally, or from

Receiver… …Integrated into virtual

desktop

Optimized for

HDFacesTM


Platinum Edition

Work better. Live better.

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