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Virtual Desktops.. Way More than Just VDI -- Get the FULL story Dan Stolts Founder & Chairman Virtualization Group Boston www.VirtG.com Twitter: @ITProGuru Blog: ITProGuru.com ITProGuru.com/Join MCT, MCITP, MCSA (Private Cloud), More… More Jobs Sr. IT Pro Evangelist – Microsoft Microsoft.com Owner - Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. BayStateTechnology.com President - Boston User Groups www.BostonUserGroups.org Founder - North East Leaders www.neleaders.com Founder/Chairman - Virtualization Group Boston www.VirtG.com Board - Boston Windows Server User Group - +SP1
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Virtual Desktops.. Way More than Just VDI -- Get the FULL storyDan Stolts
More Jobs Sr. IT Pro Evangelist – Microsoft Microsoft.com Owner - Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. BayStateTechnology.comPresident - Boston User Groups www.BostonUserGroups.orgFounder - North East Leaders www.neleaders.com Founder/Chairman - Virtualization Group Boston www.VirtG.comBoard - Boston Windows Server User Group - www.WindowsBoston.comAsst. Cub Master / Den Leader – Cub Scouts Pack 14, Lakeville, MAFuture Author – Build Your Career While You Build Your CommunityStudent … and Future ProfessorMost Important… Father, Husband, Friend & Neighbor
• 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.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure “VDI”Full Client Desktops Run as Virtual Machines (VMs)
The Advantages of VDI over Session Virtualization
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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 userMicrosoft + 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.
Today, your datacenters and network have certain capacity
Network
WAN
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VDI puts added strain on your datacenter and network
Network
WAN
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
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Your VDI technology should provide best in class server density, VM management and network optimization
Session vs VDIUpsides for VDI:Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VDI offers better user operating system isolationVDI has better native application compatibilityVDI allows users to be admins of their own images
Upsides for Session Virtualization:Remote Desktop Session Host
Session Virtualization requires less hardware and software than VDISessions are cheaper than VDI desktopsServer management is less than VDIMuch better utilization of resources
Allows MUCH heavier density
Session Virtualization scales more users per server than VDI
Remote Desktop Services enables both session virtualization and VDI!
RDSH has up to 5x the scalability over VDI
• Performance• Memory• Disk I/O• Processo
r• Cost
• Software• Hardwar
e• User Rights• Flexibility• AppCompat
• Cost!!!!
Hyper-V & Dynamic Memory
Demo
High praise from brianmadden.com: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.
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.
More Jobs Sr. IT Pro Evangelist – Microsoft Microsoft.com Owner - Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. BayStateTechnology.comPresident - Boston User Groups www.BostonUserGroups.orgFounder - North East Leaders www.neleaders.com Founder/Chairman - Virtualization Group Boston www.VirtG.comBoard - Boston Windows Server User Group - www.WindowsBoston.comAsst. Cub Master / Den Leader – Cub Scouts Pack 14, Lakeville, MAFuture Author – Build Your Career While You Build Your CommunityStudent … and Future ProfessorMost Important… Father, Husband, Friend & Neighbor
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 VMsXenDesktop:
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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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.
VMware View EnterpriseMicrosoft VDI Standard Suite and Citrix XenDesktop “VDI
Edition”VMware View Premier Microsoft VDI Premium Suite/ Citrix XenDesktop
Enterprise Deliver VMs and Sessions
Session-based Desktops
Profile Management
Single Image Management
Rich experience across WAN
Integrated Management
Application Virtualization
Connection Broker
Hypervisor (LM, Clustering, etc)
Regardless of vendor, VDA licensing is required for non-SA devices
$80†
$80/ccu annual†
$63*
$42/device annual*
$21/device annual*
$133†
$133/ccu annual†
$95/device annual*(Enterprise)
$53/device annual*
$148*
† Based on 3-year cost calculation per concurrent user (ccu). VMware® View Enterprise add-on license price $150 and 20% yearly maintenance ($30) averaged over 3 years (($150 + 3*$30 = $240)/3 = $80). VMware® View Premier add-on license price $250 per year and 20% yearly maintenance ($50) averaged over 3 years (($250 + 3*$50 = $400)/3 = $133). As per published VMware prices available at https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore as of 08/04/2009 for purchases in the United States. Actual reseller prices may vary. * Based on Microsoft and Citrix estimated retail prices for purchases in the United States. Actual reseller prices may vary.
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.Windows Server 2008 pricing information taken from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/pricing.aspx.
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.
† Based on 3-year cost calculation per concurrent user (ccu). VMware® View Enterprise add-on license price $150 and 20% yearly maintenance ($30) averaged over 3 years (($150 + 3*$30 = $240)/3 = $80). VMware® View Premier add-on license price $250 per year and 20% yearly maintenance ($50) averaged over 3 years (($250 + 3*$50 = $400)/3 = $133). As per published VMware prices available at https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore as of 08/04/2009 for purchases in the United States. Actual reseller prices may vary. * Based on Microsoft estimated retail prices for purchases in the United States. Actual reseller prices may vary.
VMware View Enterprise Microsoft VDI Standard Suite VMware View Premier Microsoft VDI Premium Suite
Session-based Desktops Integrated
ManagementApplication
VirtualizationConnection
BrokerHypervisor (LM, Clustering, etc) Regardless of vendor, VDA licensing is required for non-SA devices
