Dan Stolts
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Sr. IT Pro Evangelist – Microsoft Microsoft.com
Founder & Chairman
- Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. BayStateTechnology.com
Virtualization Group Boston Owner
President - Boston User Groups www.BostonUserGroups.org
www.VirtG.com
Founder - North East Leaders www.neleaders.com
Founder/Chairman - Virtualization Group Boston www.VirtG.com
Twitter: @ITProGuru
Board - Boston Windows Server User Group - www.WindowsBoston.com
Blog: ITProGuru.com
Asst. Cub Master / Den Leader – Cub Scouts Pack 14, Lakeville, MA
Future Author – Build Your Career While You Build Your Community
ITProGuru.com/Join
Student … and Future Professor
MCT, MCITP, MCSA (Private Cloud), More…
Full Motion
Video
Microphone
WebCam
Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor
Multi-Monitor
Smartcard
Reader
Access from
New Devices
Server Virtualization
had none of these
concerns !
Thumbdrive
Printer
USER SATISFACTION DEPENDS ON ALL THESE WORKING WELL!
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RDWA, RDG,
RDCB, RDSH
DC,DNS,DHC
P, CA
RDVH
apex
rdvh
rds-all
personal VMs
client
contoso.corp
pooled VMs
Session Host
Virtualization Host
Connection Broker
Web Access
Gateway
Licensing
RemoteFX
+ Acronym Definitions
http://bit.ly/2008R2
RDSPoster
NEW!
Improved
RDS & VDI – an integrated
solution
Remote Application Access
Full Fidelity RemoteApp &
Desktops
Hyper-V support for virtual
desktops
RemoteApp & Desktop
Connections
True multiple monitor support
Single discovery, broker &
publishing infrastructure
RemoteApp & Desktop & Web
Access
Multimedia Support & Bi
direction audio
SCVMM Support
RD Gateway Security
Improvements
2D and 3D remoting
for DirectX 10.1
(DXGI 1.1)
Platform & Management Improvements
New API, Connection Broker Extensibility,,
Powershell Support, Best Practices Analyze, Full MSI support
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Provides the
same benefits
as VDI
User sees desktop and applications as though it were
running locally
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Supports the
same
scenarios as
VDI
Endpoints
External
contractors
Task Workers
Bring Your
Own PC
LOCAL-LIKE WINDOWS EXPERIENCE
Full Motion
Video
Microphone
• Virtualizes Server GPU, delivers a virtual GPU
to each VM
WebCam
• Highly responsive desktops including Aero,
Multimedia and 3D graphics on LAN
Keyboard
• USB Peripherals and printing
Mouse
Monitor
• Bidirectional audio for VOIP
Access from
New Devices
Smartcard
Reader
ANY DEVICE, ANY NETWORK
Thumbdrive
• WAN Optimization – rich experience over
high latency networks
Printer
• Access Windows desktops from more than
30 client OSs, including iOS and Mac
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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.
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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 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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WAN
Network
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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.
Protocols need to be
designed with WANs
in mind
WAN
Network
Network may need to be
updated to handle display
remoting and peripherals.
Your VDI technology should provide best in
class server density, VM management and
network optimization
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Session Virtualization scales more users per server than VDI
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Remote Desktop Services enables both session virtualization and VDI!•
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.
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
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Dan Stolts
More Jobs 
Sr. IT Pro Evangelist – Microsoft Microsoft.com
Founder & Chairman
- Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. BayStateTechnology.com
Virtualization Group Boston Owner
President - Boston User Groups www.BostonUserGroups.org
www.VirtG.com
Founder - North East Leaders www.neleaders.com
Founder/Chairman - Virtualization Group Boston www.VirtG.com
Twitter: @ITProGuru
Board - Boston Windows Server User Group - www.WindowsBoston.com
Blog: ITProGuru.com
Asst. Cub Master / Den Leader – Cub Scouts Pack 14, Lakeville, MA
Future Author – Build Your Career While You Build Your Community
ITProGuru.com/Join
Student … and Future Professor
MCT, MCITP, MCSA (Private Cloud), More…
Microsoft
VMware
Data &
User Settings
 Windows Folder Redirection
 Windows Offline Files
 Windows Roaming User Profiles
Applications
 Microsoft Application Virtualization
 Microsoft RemoteApp
 ThinApp
 Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Suites
 Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Session Virtualization
 Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
 VMware View
Operating
System
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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Come join us for this FREE event and discover the next phase of Information Technology as we discuss Windows 8
in the business environment, Virtualization, Security, Interoperability, and Systems Management.
Register online at:
http://www.IT-Pro.org/event2012
Great speaker lineup:
Paul Thurrott
Penton
WinSupersite.com
Dan Stolts
Microsoft
ITProGuru.com
Paul Asadoorian
PaulDotCom
PaulDotCom.com
Lee Benjamin
ExchangeGuy
ExchangeGuy.com
Tim Mangan
TMurgent
TMurgent.com
Dan Sullivan
VMware
VMware.com
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.
https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore
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Single Proc
Machine
Quad Proc
Machine
$40,250
4 cores / proc
16 VMs / core
1 GB RAM per VM
54 %
$15,996
$2,985
vSphere 4.1
66%
$995
vSphere 5.0
Standard
Windows Server 2008 R2
with Hyper-V
Enterprise
Enterprise Plus
/ Datacenter
Standard
Enterprise
Enterprise Plus
/ Datacenter
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.
https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore
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