CloudPlatform XenDesktop/XenApp cloud provisioning. Gaby Grau - Systems Engineer Networking & Cloud October 2014

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CloudPlatform – XenDesktop/XenApp

cloud provisioning

Systems Engineer Networking & Cloud

October 2014

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The Journey to IT-as-a-Service

IT

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A U T O MA T ED MA N U A L _Compute,Storage, Network Server Virtualization

App & Desktop Virtualization

& Mobile Workstyles

Cloud Orchestration

Private & Public IaaS IT as a Service Infrastructure (IaaS, STaaS) Traditional Apps (SAP, Oracle, AutoCAD, Exchange) Cloud-native Apps

(PaaS, SaaS, WaaS)

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What Does a Private Cloud Provide?

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Amazon has set standards for cloud computing

Business Manager

EC2 = IaaS from Amazon‘s

datacenter

The Amazon-like cloud for your datacenter.

Service providers & enterprises

virtual private cloud (VPC)

Instances

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300+

Large Scale

Production Clouds

In Deployment

Web 2.0

Service Providers and Telcos

Enterprise and Education

Production sites

with over

40,000+

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SwissTXT

Scalable, reliable cloud solution in Switzerland

 

http://www.citrix.de/customers/swiss-txt-en.html?product=cloudplatform

 

Operation of online and multimedia offers of SRG broadcasters SRF, RTS, RSI,

RTR and others

 

Self-service for clients

 

Fast provisioning of resources – in minutes

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Citrix Ready in Germany

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People

VIRTUALIZATION CONNECT BRIDGE

NetScaler

CONNECT BRIDGE

NetScaler

Other

Clouds

BUILD

CONNECT

Compute

Network

Storage

CloudPlaHorm

CloudPortal Business Manager

CloudBridge NetScaler Gateway Storefront XenServer KVM OVM Hyper-‐V vSphere

Citrix Cloud Technology

DELIVER SERVICES

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Infrastructure as a Service

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Mature Complete Product

 

Customer-proven with over 300+ global production cloud

deployments

 

Complete data center and desktop infrastructure orchestration,

provisioning and management

 

Enables organizations to deliver cloud-native services in days,

not weeks or months

 

Supports both traditional enterprise and cloud-native workloads

 

Integrated turnkey solution

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CloudPlatform Benefits

Secondary Storage

MySQL

CloudPlatform

Management

Server

• 1 Product, 1 Edition

• 1-2 day PoC setup

• Native XenDesktop

Integration

• Leverages existing

infrastructure

• Hypervisor Agnostic

• XenServer included

CloudPlatform

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Cloud

Workloads

Traditional Workloads

Expect Reliability

•  Redundant hardware

•  Backup & restore on failure

Cloud-Era Workloads

Expect Failure

•  Apps are built to withstand failure

•  Deploy across multiple failure zones

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Amazon

MS Azure

Any

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Moving XenDesktop/XenApp to Private Clouds

Enabling the Journey from Desktop Virtualization to Desktop Cloud

Off-Premise

On-Premise

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XA / XD - Hybrid Cloud Provisioning

Delivery Controller

Traditional Virtualization

Public Cloud

Citrix Studio

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New Infrastructure Choice, Familiar Setup

Same administrative workflows, now simplified for cloud

Host Selection now includes

CloudPlatform

Select your cloud region and

availability zone

Select instance type for

machine catalog

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XenDesktop with CloudPlatform Deployment Models

Private Cloud

SP/Public Cloud

In-‐house Private

Cloud

Citrix Ready

XD IaaS

D-IaaS

CSP DaaS

Desktop, Image

Management Customer Customer Customer SP

XD, XA Farm Management Customer Customer SP SP

IaaS Management Customer SP SP SP

Customer control level

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Value running XenDesktop/XenApp on CloudPlatform

 

CloudPlatform adds value to XenDesktop/XenApp deployments

Multi tenancy Optimize capacity Simplify template mgmt _{infrastructure admin}Separation of XD/

Storage tiering and network QoS Manage multiple datacenters

XenDesktop

CloudPlatform

Hypervisor (VMW,HV,XS)

Cost visibility and

charge back Scaleout local storage Self service for

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CloudPlatform architecture example

Desktop-Infrastructure-as-a-Service (service provider-like architectures)

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Cost visibility and billing for tenants

Engineering

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Demo

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XenDesktop/XenApp cloud provisioning – Light house program

for Enterprises

Test and validate benefits of XD/XA in a private cloud

Ability to influence Citrix product roadmaps Realize customized deployment scenarios and goals

Explore latest features and validated best practices

Program teams across Citrix: Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Marketing

Hybrid

Desktop-as-a-Service

Citrix XDCCP LHP

Latest Software Releases

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Citrix Ready IaaS Cloud for XenDesktop

For Service Providers

Program Overview

 Sub-program within Citrix Ready Program for Cloud Providers

 Does not guarantee performance/scalability/security

 Limited to Citrix product feature operability

 Verification for scalability will be defined separately

 Available for XenApp/XenDesktop 7.5 and later

 Support must be purchased from Cloud Provider for following issues: IaaS

functionalities, performance, security

 Verification script available

Program Web page

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Summary

 

CloudPlatform provides

• Shared infrastructure for multiple XenApp/XenDesktop installations

(multi tenant)

• One infrastructure view for multiple datacenters

(multi sites)

• elasticity

• Resource

consumption

visibility

• Desktop-Infrastructure-as-a-Service (D-IaaS)

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How to start?

 CloudPlatform 90day trial

•  http://www.citrix.de/products/cloudplatform/try.html  XenDesktop 7.5 information •  http://www.citrix.com/products/xendesktop/whats-new.html  CloudPlatform information •  http://www.citrix.com/products/cloudplatform/overview.html  Contacts •  Najat Messaoud

•  Sales Director EMEA

•  [email protected]

•  +49 151 140 587 49

•  Christian Ferber

•  Systems Engineer Central Europe

•  [email protected]

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