SYN 214: Linux Virtual Desktop Capabilities, Use Cases, Architecture, and Deployment Guidance

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Discover what’s new in Linux virtual desktops and how you can virtualize Linux workloads with XenApp and XenDesktop, from productivity and web applications to high–end 3D applications. Learn the capabilities of the new HDX 3D Pro for Linux and the advantages the solution brings to industries including oil and natural gas, manufacturing, scientific modelingand chipset design.

In this session, you will learn:

What’s available on Linux virtual desktops

Use cases

Architecture

Deployment guidance for Linux virtual desktops as part of XenApp and XenDesktop



These features are already released


Existing XenApp and XenDesktop customers

Have a % of Linux users currently not part of the deployment

UNIX to Linux switch Reduce operating cost

(lic, hw, availability of apps & developers)

ISV’s and developers who live & breath Linux

Remote access to Linux desktops

HPC workloads (incl. 3D & visualization apps)










Developer Apps:

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Modeling & Numerical computation

Big Data analysis

SQL Processing

Web Browser

Office Productivity

Email

Homegrown Apps








XA/XD customers wanting to leveraging existing XA/XD architecture.

Customers who use/know/live in Windows, but have a user base needing Linux workloads.

ISV’s and developers who live & breathe Linux.


Use cases for remote access to Linux desktops incl. 3D & visualization apps

UNIX customers making a switch to Linux to help reduce operating cost

Windows customers looking to move away from Microsoft licenses


These features are already released


This version is already released


This version is already released



This is a new released targeted for release by end of Q2 2016 (Release around Synergy)

Additional click down information

• Client Drive Mapping (CDM) – Already approved in the previous deck

• CDM is client drive mapping. This feature is already available on Windows VDA. It enables access to client side drives inside the XA/XD session enabling data transfer between client device and XA/XD desktop/app

• This is a VDA only feature

Install directory change

• This feature is about changing the install directory location of Linux VDA to a location which is a standard for Citrix products and also does not create conflicts with user install locations


CentOS 6.6, 7 support (Already approved in the previous deck)

• CentOS is a Linux distribution almost same as RHEL which we already support. This feature is to support Linux VDA on CentOS as well. This is already approved in the previous approved deck



Tech preview

• HDX 3D Pro for RHEL 6.7, CentOS 6.7, 7.2: This is to support more Linux distribution with HDX 3D Pro for Linux, but as a tech preview capability in Project Deira

• vGPU support: This is to support vGPU (virtual GPU support for graphics acceleration) with HDX 3D Pro for Linux, but as a tech preview capability in Project Deira

• These are VDA only features, except vGPU which requires support in hypervisors. Vmware vSphere already supports it, the support for vGPU on XenServer is coming in Q2, it is also already available as tech preview.

No release date or project is identified for these features

Additional click down details

Provisioning support

• Provisioning support is support for PVS or MCS technologies for provisioning Linux virtual machines in XenApp and XenDesktop architecture. We are working towards supporting PVS only and for select distributions only to start with.

• This feature is already supported for Windows VDA and it is a separate component from the VDA.

App publishing

• Seamless apps

• This is already approved in the previous approved roadmap deck.


Direct SSL

• Direct SSL is about making the SSL connection from Receiver to the Linux VDA. This is required for higher security.


Policy management


Ubuntu support








• sudo /usr/local/bin/ctxreg update ‐k "HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Citrix/WinStations/tcp" ‐v "MaxIdleTime" ‐d <timeout>

• sudo /usr/local/bin/ctxreg update ‐k "HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Citrix/WinStations/tcp" ‐v "MaxDisconnectionTime" ‐d <timeout>
























https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foomatic


sudo authconfig \ ‐‐disablecache \ ‐‐disablesssd \ ‐‐disablesssdauth \ ‐‐enablewinbind \ ‐‐enablewinbindauth \ ‐‐disablewinbindoffline \ ‐‐smbsecurity=ads \ ‐‐smbworkgroup=domain \ ‐‐smbrealm=REALM \ ‐‐krb5realm=REALM \ ‐‐krb5kdc=fqdn‐of‐domain‐controller \ ‐‐winbindtemplateshell=/bin/bash \ ‐‐enablemkhomedir ‐‐updateall


sudo authconfig \ ‐‐disablecache \ ‐‐disablesssd \ ‐‐disablesssdauth \ ‐‐enablewinbind \ ‐‐enablewinbindauth \ ‐‐disablewinbindoffline \ ‐‐smbsecurity=ads \ ‐‐smbworkgroup=domain \ ‐‐smbrealm=REALM \ ‐‐krb5realm=REALM \ ‐‐krb5kdc=fqdn‐of‐domain‐controller \ ‐‐winbindtemplateshell=/bin/bash \ ‐‐enablemkhomedir ‐‐updateall










This is a new released targeted for release by end of Q2 2016 (Release around Synergy)

Additional click down information

• Client Drive Mapping (CDM) – Already approved in the previous deck

• CDM is client drive mapping. This feature is already available on Windows VDA. It enables access to client side drives inside the XA/XD session enabling data transfer between client device and XA/XD desktop/app


Install directory change

• This feature is about changing the install directory location of Linux VDA to a location which is a standard for Citrix products and also does not create conflicts with user install locations


CentOS 6.6, 7 support (Already approved in the previous deck)

• CentOS is a Linux distribution almost same as RHEL which we already support. This feature is to support Linux VDA on CentOS as well. This is already approved in the previous approved deck


Tech preview

• HDX 3D Pro for RHEL 6.7, CentOS 6.7, 7.2: This is to support more Linux distribution with HDX 3D Pro for Linux, but as a tech preview capability in Project Deira

• vGPU support: This is to support vGPU (virtual GPU support for graphics acceleration) with HDX 3D Pro for Linux, but as a tech preview capability in Project Deira


• These are VDA only features, except vGPU which requires support in hypervisors. Vmware vSphere already supports it, the support for vGPU on XenServer is coming in Q2, it is also already available as tech preview.

No release date or project is identified for these features

Additional click down details

Provisioning support

• Provisioning support is support for PVS or MCS technologies for provisioning Linux virtual machines in XenApp and XenDesktop architecture. We are working towards supporting PVS only and for select distributions only to start with.

• This feature is already supported for Windows VDA and it is a separate component from the VDA.

App publishing

• Seamless apps


Direct SSL

• Direct SSL is about making the SSL connection from Receiver to the Linux VDA. This is required for higher security.


Policy management


Ubuntu support



Discover what’s new in Linux virtual desktops and how you can virtualize Linux workloads with XenApp and XenDesktop, from productivity and web applications to high–end 3D applications. Learn the capabilities of the new HDX 3D Pro for Linux and the advantages the solution brings to industries including oil and natural gas, manufacturing, scientific modelingand chipset design.

In this session, you will learn:

What’s available on Linux virtual desktops

Use cases

Architecture

Deployment guidance for Linux virtual desktops as part of XenApp and XenDesktop


SYN 214: Linux Virtual Desktop Capabilities, Use Cases, Architecture, and Deployment Guidance

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