C/D/H virtualization experts, Eric Inch and Jason Shroll, provide a side-by-side comparison of the two main enterprise desktop virtualization solutions. VMware, the leader in server virtualization with vSphere, provides a compelling virtual desktop suite and excellent end user experience with VMware View. Citrix, the long-time leader in presentation services, expands its offering for virtual desktops with XenDesktop, and a collection of other technologies, to provide an enterprise solution for any company. How do these solutions stack up? View C/D/H's Desktop Virtualization Smackdown slide deck and find out this, and more!!

1. CDH
Desktop Virtualization
CDH
Smackdown
VMware vs. Citrix

2. CDH Quick Facts
About Us Approach Partnerships
• 21st Year • Vendor • Microsoft Gold
• Grand Rapids & Independent • VMware Enterprise
Royal Oak • Non-reseller • Citrix Silver
• 30 Staff • Professional • Novell Gold
Services Only • Cisco Premier

3. CDH Expertise

4. CDH Meet your Presenters
Eric Inch Jason Shroll
Consultant Consultant
VCP, VCP4-DT, MCTIP, CCA VCP, MCITP, CCEA
EricI@cdh.com Jason.Shroll@cdh.com

5. CDH Agenda
• VDI Overview: Who needs VDI?
• Introduction of Competitors
• Desktop Architecture
• Smackdown!
– Management
– User Experience
– Remote Access
– Edition Comparison
• VDI Business Value
• Conclusion

6. User Perspective: John Anderton
CDH

7. CDH How VDI helps John
• A virtualized desktop sits next to virtualized
servers in the data center at the physical
layer for maximum speed.
• A virtualized application can run even
faster than a typical application installation.
• VDI clients can flip between several open
desktops at once with multiple monitor
support for up to 4 monitors.

8. User Perspective: Theo
CDH

9. CDH How VDI helps Theo
• VDI allows desktops to be refreshed every
day upon logon from a central ‘Gold’
image (snapshot).
• A user’s virtual desktop is their own. If they
want to customize it or try to break it, they
are given the power to do so. It’s easy to
rebuild and refresh. No more rebuilding
operating systems from scratch.

10. CDH User Perspective: Whistler

11. CDH How VDI helps Whistler
• VMware PCoIP and Citrix HDX protocols
deliver multimedia content faster than RDP
for a maximum user experience.
• Both View and XenDesktop allow USB
redirection from the client to virtual
desktop.

12. CDH Our competitors!

13. CDH

14. CDH VMware
• Company formed in 1998 in Palo Alto, CA with
just 20 employees
• VMware Workstation – Released in 1999
• VMware GSX Server – Released in 2001
• First bare-metal hypervisor with ESX Server
• VMware ESXi released (first free hypervisor)
– now simply called VMware Hypervisor
• Latest release is vSphere 5.0 (Summer 2011)

15. CDH VMware View Suite (Desktop)
• December 2008 – Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure 3.0
• November 2009 – VMware View 4.0
– Key features: View Composer, View Connection
Server, ThinApp, PCoIP
• July 2011 – VMware View 5.0
- Key features: PCoIP optimization controls,
Persona Management

17. CDH Citrix
• Founded 1989
• 1995 WinFrame for NT 3.51
• Products
– XenDesktop
– XenApp
– XenServer
– NetScaler
– Access Gateway
– Branch Repeater
– GoToMeeting

19. CDH Citrix Architecture
• Hypervisor
– Citrix XenServer
– VMware vSphere
– Microsoft Hyper-V
• Delivery Controller
– SQL Server
– PowerShell
• Virtual Desktop Agent
• Citrix Receiver

21. Round 1: Management –
CDH Vmware View
XenDesktop View

22. Round 1: Management – Citrix
CDH XenDesktop
• Desktop Studio
– Catalogs and assignments
• Desktop Director
– Monitoring
• Provisioning Services
• EdgeSight

24. Round 2: User Experience –
CDH XenDesktop
High Definition eXperience
Enhanced QoS with multi-stream

25. Round 2: User Experience -
CDH View
PCoIP

26. CDH
CDH Demo

28. Round 3: Desktop Provisioning
CDH – View
• Automate provisioning
from a template
• On-demand provisioning View Manager
• Multiple types of
desktops
– Dedicated or Floating,
Individual Template
• Apply group policies
vCenter
Manage your workstations
like servers!

29. Round 3: Desktop Provisioning – View
CDH Traditional VDI View Composer
Single Image
Management
VMware View helps reduce
storage costs by 70%

30. Round 3: Desktop Provisioning
CDH – XenDesktop
Pooled – Data is discarded at logoff, MCS
Dedicated – Single image, customizations
Existing – Created outside of XenDesktop
Physical – Workstations or PC blades
Streamed – Provisioning Services streaming
http://www.cdhtalkstech.com/2011/07/07/citrix-vdi-creating-a-catalog-a-desktop-group-and-accessing-the-desktop/

31. Round 3: Desktop Provisioning
CDH – XenDesktop

33. Round 4: Application
CDH Virtualization - XenDesktop
XenApp
• Presentation
– Server resources
• Streaming
– Application virtualization
– Isolated package
– Profiler
– VHD

34. Round 4: Application
CDH Virtualization – View
Features Operating System
• Decouple applications and
data from OS Application Application
• Agent-less architecture App App
• Wide platform and Files Files
application support
• Plug into existing
application management
tools
Benefits
• Applications load faster Application Application
• Users can load different sandbox sandbox
versions of the same
VOS VOS
application
• ThinApp runs in 100% Operating System
User mode

35. CDH
CDH Demo

37. Round 5: Profiles
CDH View 5 Persona Management
• Downloading at login only files that
Windows requires, like user registry files
• Periodically uploading to a remote
repository (CIFS Share) any changes to
the user profile
• Uploading at logout only the user profile
changes since the last periodic upload

38. Round 5: Profiles
CDH XenDesktop Profile Management
• Profile Manager
– Desktop service
– Group policy
– File and registry exclusions
– On demand streaming
– Live synchronization
• Folder Redirection

40. CDH Round 6: View Remote Access

41. CDH Round 6: View Remote Access

42. Round 6: XenDesktop Remote
CDH Access
• Access gateway / Access gateway VPX
– Secure policy
– Roles, devices
• Branch Repeater
– WAN acceleration
Time savings Bandwidth savings

43. Round 6: XenDesktop Remote
CDH Access
• XenClient
– Type 1 client hypervisor
– Synchronizer

44. CDH Endpoints

45. CDH XenDesktop Edition Comparison
Product Components Platinum Enterprise VDI Express
Desktop Delivery Controller X X X X*
XenServer X X X X
XenServer Enterprise X X X
Provisioning Services X X X***
StorageLink X X X
Workflow Studio X X X
Profile Management X X X
Departmental and User Installed Apps X X X
XenClient X X
XenApp Enterprise X
XenApp Platinum X
HDX WAN Optimization X
EdgeSight for Virtual Desktops X
Access Gateway Universal license X ** **
Single sign-on X
* Limited to 10 virtual desktops
** Access Gateway platform licenses included in every Access Gateway appliance provide secure remote access for VDI and Enterprise editions
*** Supports provisioning hosted virtual desktops and virtual servers on server systems that are part of the Citrix-provided XenDesktop deployment

46. CDH View 5 Edition Comparison

47. CDH VDI Gotchas
• The business path to a virtual desktop
is not the same as a virtual server!
• A virtual desktop deployment requires
an existing virtual infrastructure.
• A desktop virtualization strategy
requires time and patience, and
careful planning.

48. CDH Business Value

49. CDH Business Value (cont.)
• Management
– New user provisioning
– Application deployment
• Security
– Centralized
– New desktop
• Backups
• Reduced help desk calls

50. CDH Conclusion
• Both products have their strengths and
weaknesses
• VMware: 30-day free demo of View 5
• Citrix: 30-day free demo of XenDesktop 5.5
• C/D/H can help you figure out the right
solution for you!

51. CDH Thank You
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