A turnkey appliance for Citrix desktop virtualization Apr 27 2016

A Turnkey Appliancefor Citrix Desktop Virtualization

Andrey ZhulenevCTO, MaximumBit, Inc.April 27, 2016

2Proprietary & Confidential. Copyright 2016 MaximumBit, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Companies now have a choice of a turnkey appliance for Citrix desktop virtualization

A company wants to implement new or upgrade old desktop virtualization environment

Desktop365® Appliance

Who will architect the solution?Who can implement it?

How to support it?

Pre-Architected solutionAutomated implementation

Defined support processes and tools

Custom Implementation

The Challenge The Solution


Desktop365® Appliance takes the trend for hyper-convergence to the next level

Hardware

Virtualization

Operating System

Software

Data

IT System

Automation

Hyperconverged System

Infrastructure



A company is buying a product from certified Desktop365® partners, who send a technician to deploy it

Imagine this… A company needs to implement desktop virtualization …

• A company contacts Desktop365® certified partner

• In a one hour call desktop virtualization requirements are documented

• Partner specifies the required appliance configuration and software licensing

• The company orders Dektop365® appliance and software licensing

• The company receives Dektop365® appliance and installs it in the datacenter

• The partner runs the Setup Wizard for automated deployment of the Citrix desktop virtualization environment and integration with Active Directory

• The partner installs applications on the provided OS image and adds it to the library of the Application Store

• Users can instantly subscribe to these applications and start working

In couple weeks the company has a perfectly working system!


Desktop365® Appliance is an integrated bundle of hardware and software components as well as related installation services


Desktop365® Automation

Software Stack

Virtualization

Appliance Nodes


Installation & Integration Services


Desktop365® Appliance bundles together the Software Stack for Citrix desktop virtualization and a very cost efficient Hyperconverged System

Virtualization

Assembler

Hypervisor

Application Store

Administration Portal

Software Stack

Setup Wizard

Citrix Netscaler

Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp

SQL Server

Active Directory

Windows DFS

Windows Server OS

Windows Desktop OS

Windows Server w/ Hyper-V

Datacore SANsymphony-V

Appliance Nodes



DX-Series

Virtualization


Desktop365® Appliances cover a wide range of user capacity requirements

DX-100 DX-300DX-200 DX-400 DX-500

5-10 users 50-75 users25 users 100-300 users up to 5000 users

Desktop365® DX-Series Appliances

Users Model Form Factor CPU GHz RAM GB Storage TB

5 DX-101 Intel NUC 4.6 16 0.2

10 DX-102 Intel NUC 6.1 32 0.2

25 DX-201 Mini-Tower 9.6 64 0.4

50 DX-301 1U Rackserver 14 96 0.9

75 DX-302 1U Rackserver 19 128 0.9

100 DX-401 2U Rackserver 29 128 2.0

150 DX-402 2U Rackserver 38 256 2.0

200 DX-403 2U Rackserver 52 256 4.0

250 DX-404 2U Rackserver 60 384 4.0

300 DX-405 2U Rackserver 73 384 4.0

5000 DX-501 42U Rack 18x DX-405 nodes, two 10Gb and three 1Gb switches

Supported OEMS


Desktop365® Hyperconverged System is based on software defined architecture and offers superior IOPS performance

Storage Unit (P)

Cluster


Worker VMs

Management VMs

failover

Synchronousmirroring

Node 2Node 1

Hypervisor Hypervisor

Host OS SDS Host OS SDS

Storage Unit (S)

Windows Hyper-VWindows Server OS

SANsymphony-V

Virtualization


Desktop365® Appliance provides outstanding storage IOPS performance


Desktop365® Appliance can grow simply by adding more nodes

Node 2

Management Nodes

persistent non-persistent

Worker Nodes

Worker VMs

Mgmt. VMs

Node 1

Hypervisor

Host OS SDS

Hypervisor

Host OS SDS

Node 4Node 3

Hypervisor

Host OS SDS

Hypervisor

Host OS SDS

Storage Unit Storage Unit Storage Unit Storage Unit


Desktop365® Automation provides integrated Workspace Management and IT Life-cycle management

Workspace Management

AdministrationInstallation Support

ManageOnboard Assist

IT Life-cycle Management

IT Administrators

Business Users


Application Store

Setup Wizard



Setup Wizard deploys a fully functioning Citrix desktop virtualization environment with high availability in about 90 minutes

Setup Wizard

Installation Package Citrix Desktop Virtualization EnvironmentProvide custom settings

• License Files

• Domain and OUs

• Passwords

• IP Addresses

• Certificate

• URLs

Deploy the environment

• Setup Wizard creates Virtual Machines

• Installs software

• Configures the environment

• Validates that it is operational

Input Output

Setup WizardMSI

ConfigurationFile

OSImages

Hypervisor

Application Store


Software StackCitrix Netscaler

Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp

SQL Server

Active Directory

Windows DFS

Windows Server OS

Windows Desktop OS



The demo environment includes a workstation, a router and an appliance

Internet

ApplianceIntel NUC: i-5 CPU, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD

Hypervisor: XenServer

WorkstationSetup Wizard

Router

10.0.0.1

10.0.0.101


Application Store enables self-service for business users and Administration Portal simplifies IT administration

Application Store

User Management• Create Organizations• Add / Remove users• Import users from existing Active Directory

Subscription Management• Users can subscribe to applications• Business Admin can approve applications• Business Admin can assign applications

Configuration• Notification setting• Password reset


Environment Management• Manage Citrix Farms configuration• Add appliance nodes• Manage Virtual Machines• Configure SMTP settings

Image Management• Create and manage VHD Templates• Network Templates• VM Templates• Application Templates• Desktop Templates


Desktop365® Appliance is a very cost efficient and fast way of implementing Citrix desktop virtualization

• Template based and automated deployment

• Streamlined and automated IT administration

• Self – service for business users reduces IT overhead

• Extremely cost efficient Hyperconverged System

$300K

$400K

Three year TCO for 300 users

Traditional Desktop365®

6 weeks

24 weeks

Implementation Time

-75%

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-25%

• No need to research, architect and design the system

• Fully automated deployment

• Simplified procurement process

• No need for troubleshooting and stabilization


Desktop365® Appliance enables a highly accelerated and streamlined implementation from order to production

Ship Hardware

Use provided OS imagesImport new VHD imagesPublish ApplicationsAdd UsersAssign applications to users

Buy Software Licenses Run Setup Wizard

Run Assembler

Use Administration Portal

Order

Installs Hyperconverged System

Deploys Software Stack

Production

Implementation Steps


Desktop365® Appliance solution supports multiple deployment options

Branch Office Datacenter Hosting Provider In the Cloud

Deployment Options


Website: www.desktop365.com

Contact: [email protected]

Q&A

http://www.desktop365.com/

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A turnkey appliance for Citrix desktop virtualization Apr 27 2016