On April 12th, C/D/H presented on VDI to a group of operations and technology professionals at the 2012 BEST banking conference. Attendees learned an overview of virtualization and VDI, the benefits, the competitors, and how to get started. View C/D/H's Smackdown slide deck for a side-by-side comparison of the top virtual desktop solutions from VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft. And for more information on this or other virtualization topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.

1. CDH
Virtualization Desktop
CDH Smackdown
April 2012

2. CDH Quick Facts
About Us Approach Partnerships
• 22nd Year • Vendor • Microsoft Gold
• Grand Rapids & Independent • VMware Enterprise
Royal Oak • Non-reseller • Citrix Silver
• 30 Staff • Professional • Novell Gold
Services Only • Cisco Registered

3. CDH Expertise

4. CDH CDH Talks Tech

5. CDH Meet Your Presenter
Jason A. Shroll
Consultant
MCITP, VCP, CCEA
Jason.Shroll@cdh.com

6. CDH Agenda
• Introduction to vrtualization concepts
• Why virtualize?
• Who needs VDI?
• Introduction of VDI competitors
• Which is the best choice?
• How do I get started?

7. CDH Demos
• For a customized demonstration of any of
these technologies, please contact me
directly at jason.shroll@cdh.com

8. CDH Virtualization

9. CDH Hypervisor

10. CDH Dynamic Resource Balancing

11. CDH High Availability

12. CDH Virtual Storage

13. CDH Virtual Desktops

14. CDH Why Virtualize?
… it depends who you ask!
IT Staff Management CEO
“Centralized Control!” “Business Continuity!” “Reduce Capital
Costs!”
“Server “Disaster Recovery!”
Provisioning!” “Energy Efficiency!”

15. User Perspective: John Anderton
CDH

16. 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.

17. User Perspective: Theo
CDH

18. 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.

19. CDH User Perspective: Whistler

20. CDH How VDI helps Whistler
• Enhanced VDI protocols deliver
multimedia content faster than RDP for a
maximum user experience.
• USB redirection is available from the client
to virtual desktop.

21. CDH Competitors!

22. 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)

23. 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

25. But which product is best?
CDH What about VMware?
• The most stable, scalable and proven
virtual architecture, chosen by most IT
departments
• Simple, single-pane of glass management
with VCenter and View Manager
• Easily the most expensive option with
licensing
• Requires an existing enterprise
architecture for success

26. CDH Citrix
• Been around since 1989
• First in application streaming with WinFrame,
then MetaFrame, now XenApp
• Products
– XenDesktop
– XenApp
– XenServer
– NetScaler
– Access Gateway
– Provisioning Services

28. But which product is best?
CDH What about Citrix?
• XenDesktop can run on top of Citrix
XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and even
VMware vSphere
• A easy option for IT environments that are
familiar with Citrix
• Expensive licensing
• Complex management overhead

29. CDH Microsoft
• Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
• Terminal Services – Now Remote Desktop
Services (RDS)
• VDI solution uses familiar Microsoft Technologies
– 2008 R2 Clustering
– 2008 R2 Hyper-V
– Remote Desktop Gateway
– Remote Desktop Session Host
– Remote Desktop Protocol 7 with Windows 7

30. CDH Microsoft
• Remote Desktop Sessions or Virtual
Desktops
• RemoteApp
• RD Web Access
• RemoteFX for user experience
• Partners with Citrix

31. CDH Microsoft Architecture

32. But which product is best?
CDH What about Microsoft?
• The least expensive VDI solution
• Attractive to small business IT – uses
familiar concepts like Microsoft Clustering,
Hyper-V, and SCVMM
• Least proven solution – VDI features are
still trying to ‘catch up’ to Citrix and
VMware, who are years ahead

33. CDH Comparison Matrix

34. CDH But regardless of the solution...
• A VDI solution requires a significant investment
• The ROI for VDI takes time to appear – perhaps
not even until next hardware refresh cycle
• A Virtual desktop environment is easier to
manage
• VDI offers significant OpEx and CapEx savings
over time when it is implemented correctly
• “VDI fits every customer, but not for every
desktop”

35. CDH How do I get started?
• All three solutions offer free, feature-filled
trials
• Start with a proof of concept
– Each vendor supplies the detailed steps
necessary to build one
• Choose a vendor based on your
requirements
• Request the services of a consultant 

36. CDH Thank You
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