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CloudBridge WAN Optimization and Cloud Connectivity

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CloudBridge overview

Tools of network optimization

Application specific optimizations

CloudBridge Connector

Appliances overview

Intro to today’s labs

Get your hands dirty

Agenda

CloudBridge overview


CloudBridge and the Citrix Application Delivery Architecture

CloudPlatforms

CloudNetworking

DataSharing

SocialCollaboration

MobilePlatforms

DesktopVirtualization

GoToMeeting ShareFile XenMobile XenDesktop NetScalerCloudBridge CloudPlatform

Presentation Delivery


Cloud ProviderTraditionalDatacenter

Requirements•L2 Tunnel and Bridging•L3 Secured Tunnel•Seamless network•WAN Optimized

Network YNetwork X

Citrix CloudBridge in a Nutshell


L2 GRE TunnelIPSec TunnelCloudBridge

Cloud Provider

TraditionalDatacenter

Network X


Provides a seamless extension of the Enterprise network into the Cloud

Provides secure connectivity from the Enterprise network into the Cloud

Together, IPSec and L2 tunneling provide network transparency




Cloud Provider



Network X

A truly network-transparent WAN optimization solution that does not rely on disruptive tunneling techniques

Optimizes application availability through advanced L4-7 load balancing and traffic management



Cloud Provider



Together, IPSec and L2 tunneling provide network transparency

Provides secure connectivity from the Enterprise network into the Cloud


A truly network-transparent WAN optimization solution that doesn’t rely on disruptive tunneling techniques


Network X

Optimizes application availability through advanced L4-7 load balancing and traffic management


CloudBridge Delivers XenDesktop to the Branch


CloudBridge for WAN Optimization in the Cloud Era

Accelerated application delivery and connectivity from all application instances to all users and services

CloudBridge

WANCloudBridge

CloudBridge

CloudBridgeData Center

CloudBridge Client

CloudBridge


CloudBridge Benefits Summary

Tools of network optimization


CloudBridge Optimization Technologies

TCP Flow Control

Compression Protocol Accelerators QoS

WAN Optimization Engine

Improve inefficient protocols

Data compression / De-duplication

Overcome loss/latency

penalties

Prioritize critical traffic

Network Congestion, Latency and Packet Loss


TCP Flow Control

TCP waits for a ACK after 64 Kbytes are sent on the wire

TCP does not like to compete for bandwidth

Multiple TCP sessions collide with each other causing back off and retransmit behavior


Compression and Deduplication

Compression and Deduplication work by analyzing the data and searching for redundancies.• Without Compression:

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• With Compression: Ax10BCDAx10 (11 digits)


Quality of Service

Big File Transfer

HDX Sessions

VoIP calls

HTTPMAPI CIFS

Big Print Job

Big File Transfer

HDX Sessions

VoIP callsHTTP

MAPI

CIFS

Big Print Job

No QoS: Interactive apps impacted

With QoS: Interactive apps prioritized


Protocol Acceleration

Accelerates various protocols that WANs use to communicate. Thus minimizing the number of back-and-forth trips taken.

Application specific optimizations


Protocol Acceleration

First generation CIFS wouldn’t send the next packet until the preceding ACK was received – not true any longer

MAPI is still pretty chatty

HDX benefits from de-duplication and QoS


XenDesktop

CloudBridge reduces WAN bandwidth requirements by almost 80%

Preconfigured QoS settings ensure correct prioritization

Supports both single-stream and multi-stream deployments

And optimizes other enterprise applications as well…

100 200 300

No WAN Op 16.15 24.02 32.36

CloudBridge 3.384 7.085 10.176

2.5

7.5

12.5

17.5

22.5

27.5

32.5

WAN Bandwidth Requirements

Concurrent XenDesktop UsersM

bp

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Speed 50X 30X 2X 2.5X 6X

BandwidthSavings

99% 99% 89% 97% 97%

XenApp Optimization

Print File


CloudBridge accelerates ShareFile for Branch offices

Storage Center (EC2)

S3

Storage Center (Windows IIS)

NAS

Authorization

Login

File Transfer

Control Plane

Customer-Managed StorageZones

NAS

CloudBridgeBranch

Accelerate file transfers

Compress WAN data usage

Prioritize and shape bandwidth usage by application

Flexible physical and Virtual appliances up to 2Gbps


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CloudBridge Benefits for NetApp Storage Replication

NetApp’s SnapMirror application includes compression functionality• Enabling compression affects file server performance

CloudBridge accelerates better:• Better TCP window size adjustment• Congestion measurement and control• De-duplicates across storage volumes

CloudBridge’s acceleration benefits are complimentary to NetApp’s

Link Capacity

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Customer Data Center 1

NAS NAS

Customer Data Center 2

NAS NAS


Optimize Video Delivery to Branches

XenDesktop

XenApp

Data center

Branch officeVideo server

User A

User B

WAN

CloudBridge

CloudBridge provides:• Caching or de-duplication of video content for XenDesktop

environments • Cache videos from content sites, both internal and external • Prioritize traffic from preferred video content sites

Deliver a better video experience while reducing WAN bandwidth

Download Time

Download Time


AppFlow for Enhanced Visibility

CloudBridge esports AppFlow for enhanced diagnostics

Report template available from Splunk

HDX Insight Center availability 2H14




Feature to build a cloud-extended data center

Create bridges to connect one or more virtual private clouds (VPCs) to your network

No reconfiguration of your data center

Enables to create a seamless connectivity between:• Your existing data center and applications hosted in the VPC• Two Clouds• Data Center to Data Center

- AWS, Azure, SoftLayer, etc


CloudBridge Basic Use-Case

LDAP DB Server

Storage

Web Server

Premise Datacenter Cloud

Private Public Public Private Network: 192.168.1.0Subnet: 255.255.255.0

CloudBridge


Eth0 (External): 174.36.133.10Eth1 (Internal): 192.168.2.99/24

LDAP DB Server

Private Public Public Private

Web Server


CloudBridge

Network: 192.168.1.0Subnet: 255.255.255.0Network: 192.168.1.0Subnet: 255.255.255.0Storage

L2 TunnelIPSec TunnelCloudBridge

Connection: L2 TunnelSecurity: IPSec VPNRoutes: IP/IP, IPv6, non-IP


Eth0 (External): 74.86.170.99Eth1 (Internal): 192.168.1.99/24

CloudBridge

Network: 192.168.2.0Subnet: 255.255.255.0


LDAP DB Server

Private Public Public Private

Web Server


CloudBridge

Storage

L2 TunnelIPSec TunnelCloudBridge

Web Server

IP: 192.168.1.100Subnet: 255.255.255.0Reqs: DB and LDAP

Migration / On-Boarding


CloudBridge


Hypervisor

vSwitch

LDAP DB ServerStorage

Premise Datacenter

Cloud

Public Private

CloudBridge: Proximity GSLB

Hypervisor

vSwitch

Switch

Public Private

Switch

Intranet

World Wide Web

Client 1

Request

Response

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Response

Request

Response

Client 2

Request

Response

Reques

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Response

Request

Response

Location: BostonApplication: XenApp

Location: OfficeApplication: XenApp

= CloudBridge


Hypervisor

vSwitch


Public Private

Hypervisor

vSwitch

Switch

Public Private

Switch

CloudBridge: Site Capacity GSLB

Premise Datacenter

Cloud

Intranet

World Wide Web

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Response

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“N” Clients


Maximum Threshold

Request

Response

Request

Request

= CloudBridge


Hypervisor

vSwitch


Public Private

Hypervisor

vSwitch

Switch

Public Private

Switch

CloudBridge: Site Capacity GSLB

Premise Datacenter

Cloud

Intranet

World Wide Web

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Request

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= NetScaler CloudBridge


Hypervisor

vSwitch


Public Private

Hypervisor

vSwitch

Switch

Public Private

Switch

CloudBridge: DR for GSLB

Premise Datacenter

Cloud

Intranet

World Wide Web

Clou

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“N” Clients

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Server Failure

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Appliances overview


CloudBridge Product Lineup

Deployment Type Model Capacity (Mbps) HDX Sessions

Global Datacenter 5000 1,500 – 2,000 3,500 – 5,000

Large Datacenter 4000 310 – 1,000 750 – 2,500

Medium Datacenter 3000 50 – 155 300 – 500

Large Branch 20002000WS

10 – 50 100 – 300

Small Branch 1000WS 6 – 20 20 – 200

Small Branch 800 2 – 10 20 – 100

Micro Branch 400 2 – 6 10 – 30

Cloud Service Providers VPX 2 – 45 15 - 250


CloudBridge Windows Server Overview

CloudBridge 2000WS / CloudBridge 1000WS are available.

Windows Server 2102R2 OEM Standard Edition is installed, licensed, and activated – Supported by Citrix

WAN Optimization

XenServer

Windows Server

Windows Apps CloudBridge

Connector(Future)

CloudBridge Hardware

WAN Optimization

XenServer

CloudBridge Connector(Future)

CloudBridge Hardware

CloudBridge 2000 CloudBridge 2000WS/1000WS


CloudBridge 2000WS and 1000WS Branch Platforms

6 to 50 Mbps of accelerated throughput

Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition fully installed, licensed configured and supported by Citrix

60 to 300 concurrent HDX sessions

Up to 200 Mbps QoS throughput

10,000 to 20,000 TCP sessions


Configurations: CloudBridge 2000WS CloudBridge 1000WS

CPU E3-12754 core, 3.4 GHz

E3-1105C v24 Core 1.8GHz

Memory 24 GB 32 GB

Storage Intel 600 GB SSD(WAN opt)

2 x 1 TB HDD(Windows)

Intel 300GB SSD (WAN opt)

Seagate 1TB HDD (Windows)

Recovery Disk boot partition 16GB Internal eUSB

Network Interface 2 pair w/bypass 10/100/1000 2 pair w/bypass 10/100/1000

Cooling Fans 4 high speed (N+1 Redundant)

3 low speed (N+1 redundant)


Citrix Extensible Appliance Architecture

Hypervisor-based architecture

Secure: all VMs fully isolated from the others

Guaranteed acceleration bandwidth

XenServer Hypervisor

Mgmt VM

WAN Optimization VM

Windows Server 2012 R2 Std.

Interface 0/1 Mgmt

AUXWindows

apA LAN Acceleration

apA WAN Acceleration

apB LAN Acceleration

apB WAN Acceleration

192.168.100.0/16

WAN

Local Network

192.168.100.1 192.168.100.40


CloudBridge 1000WS with Windows Server 2012 R2

• License levels: 6 / 10 / 20 Mbps

• Pay Grow available

• HDX Sessions: 60 / 100 / 200

• TCP Sessions: 10,000

• Full-featured, advanced WAN optimization

• Full Windows Server domain controller / server functionality

• AD, DNS, DHCP, RODC, LDS• File• Print


CloudBridge 400 and 800 Overview

Two new models will replace the 600 devices to broaden deployment options

New devices bring SSD reliability at an attractive price

Large performance increase due to faster CPUs, yet same or better price point

Micro Branch – CloudBridge 400• WANOP with limited connections• No video caching• 2 x bridge pairs• 160 GB SSD• 2, 6 Mbps with Pay Grow• Starting at $3,500

Branch – CloudBridge 800• Full featured WANOP• Video caching support• 2 x bridge pairs• 240 GB SSD• 2, 6, 10 Mbps with Pay Grow• Starting at $5,000


New to CloudBridge Aleria (CloudBridge 7.3)

• CloudBridge AppFlow with HDX Insight

• RPC over HTTPS / Outlook Anywhere (Outlook 2013)

• Branch device auto-configuration – with Command Center

• Video Cache pre warming

• Validated designs

• Removing the SDX loopback cable

Lab Introduction



Lab Exercises

Exercise 1: Verify Connectivity

Exercise 2: Active Directory Memebership

Exercise 3: ICA Optimization

Exercise 4: CIFS Optimization

Exercise 5: FTP Optimization

Exercise 6: Configuration of WanEmulation

Exercise 7: MAPI Optimization

Exercise 8: Cloud Connectivity

Exercise 9 (Optional): General CloudBridge Counters


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