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Server Virtualization had none of these concerns ! USER SATISFACTION DEPENDS ON ALL THESE WORKING WELL! Access from New Devices Full Motion Video Web Meetings 3 Microphone WebCam Keyboard Mouse Smartcard Reader Thumbdrive Printer Monitor Multi-Monitor

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Session Host Virtualization Host Connection Broker Web Access Gateway Licensing RemoteFX + Acronym Definitions

RDS & VDI – an integrated solution Hyper-V support for virtual desktops Single discovery, broker & publishing infrastructure SCVMM Support Remote Application Access RemoteApp & Desktop Connections RemoteApp & Desktop & Web Access RD Gateway Security Improvements Full Fidelity RemoteApp & Desktops True multiple monitor support Multimedia Support & Bi direction audio 2D and 3D remoting for DirectX 10.1 (DXGI 1.1) Improved NEW! Platform & Management Improvements New API, Connection Broker Extensibility,, Powershell Support, Best Practices Analyze, Full MSI support Platform & Management Improvements New API, Connection Broker Extensibility,, Powershell Support, Best Practices Analyze, Full MSI support

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10 User sees desktop and applications as though it were running locally External contractors Bring Your Own PC Task Workers Endpoints

11 LOCAL-LIKE WINDOWS EXPERIENCE Virtualizes Server GPU, delivers a virtual GPU to each VM Highly responsive desktops including Aero, Multimedia and 3D graphics on LAN USB Peripherals and printing Bidirectional audio for VOIP Microphone WebCam Keyboard Mouse Smartcard Reader Thumbdrive Printer Monitor Access from New Devices Full Motion Video Web Meetings ANY DEVICE, ANY NETWORK WAN Optimization – rich experience over high latency networks Access Windows desktops from more than 30 client OSs, including iOS and Mac

12 Sessions offer the following advantages over VDI: Higher scale - more sessions per server than VMs Lower cost - Session virtualization technology is cheaper to acquire and operate than VMs Easier management –mature technology with familiar management tools Microsoft + Citrix = Choice Deploy Session based or VM based desktops using the same technology Manage sessions and VM delivery from the same console Deliver an excellent remote desktop experience for both Sessions and VDI.

13 Benefits beyond Session Virtualization: User admin rights Greater application compatibility But at additional cost: Compared to session virtualization, needs more storage and servers for the same number of users. Management of client OS for each user Microsoft + Citrix offers you a choice: Deploy Sessions or VMs using the same technology Manage sessions and VM delivery from the same console Deliver an excellent remote desktop experience for both Sessions and VDI.

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Network In order to provide an experience similar to physical desktops, the datacenter may require significant upgrades. Servers and storage will be needed, and possibly power and cooling. Network may need to be updated to handle display remoting and peripherals. Protocols need to be designed with WANs in mind 15 Your VDI technology should provide best in class server density, VM management and network optimization

Session Virtualization scales more users per server than VDI Remote Desktop Services enables both session virtualization and VDI! Performance Memory Disk I/O Processor Cost Software Hardware User Rights Flexibility AppCompat Cost!!!!

I do think that, looking at memory management from a VDI perspective, Hyper-V fits the bill just as well as ESX does, if not better. Is Hyper-V Dynamic Memory any good for VDI? Definitely! I love it. Making the most of Dynamic Memory can really be worth your while. In fact Microsoft has seen improvements of up to 40% (!) in density for VDI workloads.Microsoft has seen improvements of up to 40% (!) in density for VDI workloads With VMware it's also easier to oversubscribe the physical memory of the host (note how I didn't use the word overcommit!) and I think that's a risk in most current VDI deployments. No matter how you slice it or dice it, when RAM is oversubscribed it introduces a higher probability of paging. This in return means a huge increase in IOPS. I guess it should go without saying that this is something you should avoid at all costs in VDI environments.

Application Virtualization in VDI Benefits: Lowers OS management costs The OS becomes thinner and easier to deploy Fewer images to maintain in the datacenter Reduce SAN storage costs 19

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Applications Operating System  Microsoft Application Virtualization  Microsoft RemoteApp  Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Suites  Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Session Virtualization  Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Data & User Settings Microsoft  Windows Folder Redirection  Windows Offline Files  Windows Roaming User Profiles VMware  ThinApp  VMware View

22 Hyper-V: REDUCES INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS Reduce memory requirements across VDI desktops by 40% with dynamic memory capability of Hyper-V Reduce desktop image size using App-V to stream apps to the OS image App-V shared cache allows VDI desktops to share storage across VMs XenDesktop: REDUCES SAN STORAGE COSTS Citrix XenDesktop can create dynamically provision user desktops from a single golden image Fewer desktop images need to be stored

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24 Microsoft-Citrix VDI provides superior functionality to VMware at a more reasonable cost. VMware cannot offer the same rich experience across WAN as Microsoft-Citrix. Integrated management is standard in Microsoft-Citrix VDI but is not available in either VMware offering. Session-based desktops are only provided by Microsoft-Citrix and are available in the Microsoft VDI Premium Suite with Citrix XenDesktop.

4 cores / proc 16 VMs / core 1 GB RAM per VM vSphere 4.1 vSphere 5.0 Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V Standard Enterprise Enterprise Plus / Datacenter Standard Enterprise Enterprise Plus / Datacenter Single Proc Machine Quad Proc Machine With Windows Server 2008 R2, you get similar features at 60-85% lower costs than vSphere 5.0 VMware pricing information from Vsphere Public Licensing Guide on 7/19/2011.Vsphere Public Licensing Guide Windows Server 2008 pricing information taken from 54 % 66% $995 $2,985 $15,996 $40,250

26 Microsoft VDI Standard Suite provides more value than either VMware View Enterprise or Premier. VMware has no offering that can compete with Microsoft VDI Premium Suite. Integrated management is standard in Microsoft’s VDI suite but is not available in either VMware offering. Session-based desktops are only provided by Microsoft and are available in the Microsoft VDI Premium Suite.