2. XenApp NG История XenApp XenApp 6 XenApp 5 PresentationServer 4.x Windows Server vNext MetaframePresentationServer 3.x Windows Server 2008 R2 MetaFrame XP Windows Server 2008 MetaFrame 1.x Windows Server 2003 WinFrame Windows Server 2000 WinView Windows NT 4.x TSE NT 3.51 Core MS OS/2 Core 1989 Early-90’s late-90’s early/mid-00’s 2008 2010 2011+
9. PTPRSD Post Traumatic Product Renaming Stress Disorder, this is when you have renamed a product and suffer serious stress symptoms in regret afterwards... Посттравматическое состояние, вызванное Стрессовым нарушением при переименовании, когда Вы переименовали продукт и пожалели об этом
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11. Как сейчас называется Citrix ICA Client? B: Program Neighbourhood A: Citrix Receiver C: Dazzle D: Citrix Online Plug-in
12. А что же тогда такое Receiver? B: Шутка маркетологов A: Универсальный клиент, в котором есть все C: Оборудование для спутникового ТВ D: Платформа для доставки plug-ins и их обслуживания
13. Receiver Client + Merchandising Server + Plug-ins Citrix Merchandising Server Receiver Client Deployments Installers & MetaData citrix.com Update Service Admin Console Head End Services
14. Receiver можно распространяться Altiris/SMS/GPO НО Receiver + Merchandiser Server: Поддерживают не доменные ПК Поддерживают Mac и Windows Не только ПО, но и конфигурация Любое ПО “Ну и зачем это? У меня есть чем распространять ПО”
15. Как распространять Receiver? B: На флешке A: с помощью веб-сайта Merchandiser Server C: Установка в образ D: GPO/Altiris/SMS
16. С версии 11.1 не поставляется Поддержка до 20 июня 2010 UDP Browsing больше нет Куда пропал Program Neighborhood
18. ICA Acc. RADE SSO DV Receiver for Windows PNA VPN ES Dazzle Receiver for Mac ICA Dazzle VPN Delivering IT as a Service Receiver for iPhone ICA Dazzle AG ICA Dazzle Receiver for iPad HDX AG ICA Dazzle Receiver for Blackberry AG
19. Что такое ??? B: Шутка маркетолога A: Замена ICA Client C: Еще один ICA Client D: Самообслуживание пользователя
20. Пользователь: “Алле, компутерщики!Мне нужно приложенияПрямо сейчас!...” Helpdesk: “Ипполит Матвеевич, мы создали наряд на работу ...с приоритетом 4” Пользователь: “4 приоритет? Это же неделя! Мне надо работать!!!”
24. FlexCastэто набор технологий, включенный в поставку XenDesktop и XenApp, который позволяет выбратьи гибко управлять способом доставки FlexCast– это не новая технология, это термин описывающий набор функций
74. HDX - это набор технологий, включенный в поставку XenDesktop и XenApp, который позволяет улучшить работу пользователя HDX – это не новая технологияи не переименованный ICA, это термин описывающий набор функций
75. Delivering a high definition user experience HDX Broadcast HDX MediaStream HDX RealTime HDX Rich Graphics HDX Plug-n-Play HDX SmartAccess HDX WAN Optimization
76. HDX Monitor for XenDesktop 4 http://hdx.citrix.com/hdx-monitor
78. Still image compression Lossless (pixel perfect) Low compression – visually lossless Medium compression High compression
79. Recommended configuration LAN Connections Low compression Progressive Display medium compression Extra color compression Off Visually lossless WAN Connections Medium compression Progressive Display high compression Extra color compression On Balanced image quality and interactivity
By the time customers start to look at Longhorn Terminal Services, Citrix will have two new versions of Presentation Server and the Access Suite with new product functionality, entirely new products serving specific segments, and accessory products like EdgeSight and others.Note:The cautionary side of this is that Longhorn TS offers functionality that starts to compare favorably with MetaFrame 1.8, which some customers still run today. Furthermore, many customers don’t understand or get the most out of the value-add we provide. CPS 4.0 has helped immensely; it has been the right product at the right time to get customers to upgrade and get more out of their Citrix investment.
Users do not always have the apps they need to do their jobMost users need everything RIGHT NOWUsers often waste time and money searching for, purchasing, and installing apps on their ownAdministrators have a hard time keeping up with user requests for appsCustomers support costs are because users try to do things themselves
You just know the IT employee is trying to remain calm and helpful to their end users
Clearly FlexCast is a very important concept for you to understand within the XenDesktop context.By now we’ve probably all heard of FlexCast, you might have seen a demo of it, but you probably still have some questions.
FlexCast is all about choices – and the key here is it’s not just “desktops” like the definition may say…it’s both desktops and applications. Some users may need a desktop – other users may not and can be perfectly fine using on-demand apps from XenDesktop!
This is really application virtualization via XenApp…but XA now comes in 2 flavors (online and offline)Online is the classic XenApp published apps…client/server apps are the bread and butter and task workers are the ideal userOffline is the new(er) Application Streaming via XenApp…desktop apps (WinZip, Adobe) are the bread and butter and mobile/offline workers are the ideal user there
This is really application virtualization via XenApp…but XA now comes in 2 flavors (online and offline)Online is the classic XenApp published apps…client/server apps are the bread and butter and task workers are the ideal userOffline is the new(er) Application Streaming via XenApp…desktop apps (WinZip, Adobe) are the bread and butter and mobile/offline workers are the ideal user there
This is really application virtualization via XenApp…but XA now comes in 2 flavors (online and offline)Online is the classic XenApp published apps…client/server apps are the bread and butter and task workers are the ideal userOffline is the new(er) Application Streaming via XenApp…desktop apps (WinZip, Adobe) are the bread and butter and mobile/offline workers are the ideal user there
This is really XenClient – Citrix’s new type 1 client hypervisor!Great for the road warrior/mobile worker
This is really PVS for Desktops – which is now the OS streaming feature of XD!Great for diskless thin-clients on a LAN…perfect in govt with zero touch clients or education (learning labs, etc.)
This is really XenDesktop and the VDI that we all think of when we hear VDI or XD. This is many VMs hosted on XS/ESX/H-V served out in a pooled fashion to users.
This is really XenApp published desktops! This is what we’ve also been doing forever with thin-client deployments…it’s just a W2K3 or W2K8 desktop shared by many users on a Terminal Server.Great for task workers and apps requiring integration with each other.
FlexCast is all about choices – and the key here is it’s not just “desktops” like the definition may say…it’s both desktops and applications. Some users may need a desktop – other users may not and can be perfectly fine using on-demand apps from XenDesktop!
[Juan]The HDX Monitor is a key tool for you to determine if your current settings are optimized for your users. This tool runs inside the virtual desktop and can tell you which HDX settings are not set correctly.We will go over some of the key HDX areas and discuss what are those settings you will probably need to look into.Graphics remoting is probably the most important one as it is the base for everything else we do in HDX.
[Juan]HDX delivers graphics very efficiently by letting the client render graphics primitives. With this approach, we send GDI graphics commands over ICA to the user device and let the client render the graphics. But we also deliver some graphics via bitmaps. Those bitmaps can be sent with different encodings including lossless and a range of lossy compression settings. Pixel-perfect lossless compression is generally only used for medical imaging, like CT and MR scans. Visually lossless compression is actually lossy, but still appears lossless to the human eye. Lossy compression works great for rich graphics, offering significant savings in bandwidth. This also has a performance benefit.
[Juan]Low compression is ideal for most LAN users. It offers visually lossless image qualityMedium compression is ideal for most WAN users. It offers a good balance between image quality and bandwidth consumption.Lossless is ideal for specialized use cases like medical imaging, where pixel-perfect imaging is needed. High compression is ideal for extremely low bandwidth scenarios. Also, many images are compressed with a visually lossless algorithm even when using High compression. It depends on the type of image getting compressed. So Citrix ensures that users get the best possible experience for the bandwidth available.
[Derek] So now, let’s put together everything that Juan has just explained…
[Juan] One of the most critical steps in configuring XenDesktop for HDX is to ensure that all of the virtual channels you will be using are listed in the XML blob. Virtual channels you likely will need to add to the default blob include Multimedia, USB, and Flash. If you neglect to add these VCs to the blob, you will likely get poor performance over WAN connections because of competition for computing resources.
What’s wrong here? The audio virtual channel used at too low of a priority. It is at High but it should be at Very High priority if you’re delivering speech or music, since Audio demands a real-time level of performance. On the other hand, when a virtual channel runs at a higher priority than necessary, it can starve other virtual channels like Thinwire and Audio that really do need to run at real-time priority. And that can degrade the user experience. If all you play are system sounds, the default settings are just fine.
[TEXT REPEATED FROM PREVIOUS SLIDE (VIDEO)] Flash Redirection is definitely the most exciting technology in our HDX MediaStream portfolio. Flash Redirection complements server-rendered multimedia delivery, providing an outstanding optimization for LAN-connected users that offloads Flash rendering to the user’s Windows device. This technology is based on Flash 10 and Internet Explorer 7 and above. As you know, the Flash Player is a plug-in to the browser. So normally these two components co-reside. But now Citrix has found a way to pull the Flash Player plug-in out of Internet Explorer so that the browser continues to run as a hosted application on XenDesktop in the data center while the Flash Player executes locally on the user device. The result? A truly local-like user experience, even for HD video and highly graphical content. But on top of that, server scalability goes way up, because the resource-intensive Flash Player no longer consumes shared resources.
[Juan]HDX MediaStream can offload the entire process of fetching content away from the server and shift it to the user device. Streaming content is delivered at a bitrate that matches the connection from the client to the media server, matching the same performance and user experience as with the local browser.Derek: Juan, what benefits does this approach to content fetching have to bandwidth consumption? Juan: That’s another area where client-side content fetching shines. Since the data goes directly between the media source and the user device, rather double-hopping through the server, this approach immediately cuts network bandwidth consumption in half.
To increase the number of web sites for which you can use Flash Redirection, we offer a Cookie Replication feature. This provides compatibility when the web site requires Flash requests to present a session cookie. We recommend that you consider enabling this option so that Flash content can be redirected to the client in more cases, thereby increasing server scalability. Derek: Juan, what happens if Cookie Replication is not enabled and the user accesses a site like that? Juan: In that case, the system will detect that the request is rejected by the web site, and SmartRendering will automatically revert to server-side rendering and add that URL to the blacklist (which I’ll discuss in a moment). So the user still gets a very good experience, but it puts more load on the server. Derek: Can you explain the concept of the URL blacklist?
[Juan] HDX Flash provides a dynamic way to determine if a Flash application is compatible or not with Flash redirection.Flash applications that are not suited to Flash redirection are automatically added to a dynamic black list which allows the Flash app to render on the server. No action on the part of the user is necessary. The administrator can also set a static blacklist via group policy objects. This can be handy if any web sites are discovered that perform better with server-side rendering yet do not automatically trigger an entry in the dynamic blacklist. [transition:] Derek: Juan, does the Flash Redirection technology have any value if the user’s device doesn’t have direct access to the media content?
[Juan] If the user device doesn’t have access to the Internet, server-side content fetching solves the problem. (Explain)
[Juan] Flash is more than just videos.There are business applications, collaboration tools and much more.Adobe’s Flex is a Rich Internet Application platform to build sophisticated applications.Flash Redirection can be used to deliver such applications… including applications that use local resources like webcams.<Demo of tokbox>
[Derek] Flash redirection is not our only multimedia redirection technology. HDX MediaStream can also redirect a long list of Windows media formats such as WMV, MPEG4, AVI, DivX, H.264 etc. Architecture Client requirements (codecs, Windows/Linux)SmartRendering fallback if codec is missing or effective bandwidth is below the SmartRendering bandwidth threshold Make sure that the CTXMM virtual channel is running at High priority (1), not at Very High priority (0), or it can starve the Thinwire virtual channel
(video of HDX 3D Pro Graphcs) [Derek] Limited bandwidth is an especially big issue for companies with users that need to work on large 3D graphics models, such as the designs for aircraft and automobiles. Without Citrix technology, the users may have to wait hours for large files to be transferred from the data center to their local workstation before they can work on them. This is a great example of where a virtual desktop outperforms a local desktop. With a virtual desktop, these large 3D models (which can be TeraBytes of data) are loaded at data center speeds. On top of that, users can access these models remotely, even over intercontinental WAN connections.
Do you have users working with 3D CAD/CAM applications or 3D medical imaging? These are examples of high-end professional graphics applications that need the extra performance of a Graphics Processing Unit. To serve this need, and to deliver these applications even over challenging Wide Area Network conditions, we offer the HDX 3D Pro Graphics feature in XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum editions. To configure Pro Graphics for a great user experience, the starting point is to understand your network. How much bandwidth will there be between the users and the data center? On a WAN where bandwidth might be as low as 2 Mbps per user, you’ll get the best performance with GPU-based compression. This is our best solution for delivering professional graphics to workers who may be located on another continent. To use the GPU codec, the host workstation in the data center must be equipped with an NVIDIA graphics card with at least 96 CUDA cores. We use CUDA to achieve a very high level of real-time data compression. On the other hand, on a LAN or on a WAN with at least 3 Mbps of bandwidth per user, you can use any graphics card that’s adequate for the applications you need to deliver. XenServer 5.6 introduces an important new capability for multi-GPU access through the hypervisor. GPU Direct Mapping allows for multiple graphics cards per host, which brings down the cost per user. This feature is being introduced on a Tech Preview basis in XenServer 5.6 pending additional testing. All initial tests have been successful so we’re very excited about this major step forward. This technology works with a range of graphics cards from NVIDIA such as the Quadro F35800, FX4800, and FX5800. What about the user device? This month (May 2010), Citrix is releasing a 12.0-based version of our special Pro Graphics online plug-in for Windows which supports the GPU codec, so we recommend that client for the best WAN performance. If you have 3 Mbps of bandwidth or more, you can also consider using our Citrix Receiver for Linux, version 11.100.
HDX™ WAN Optimization, part of Citrix’s HDX, is a set of technologies that provide performance and network optimization across the WAN.Powered by the Branch Repeater products, HDX WAN Optimization provides a LAN-like experience for branch office and mobile users while reducing the bandwidth consumption of virtual desktops and applications by up to 90%.<>