HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Citrix XenDesktop The endtoend desktop virtualization solutio

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HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Citrix
XenDesktopThe end-to-end desktop virtualization
solution

• Presenter name
• Title, HP

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HP and Citrix value to you

• Reduces the cost of managing desktops
• Provides an ideal/effective user experience
• Enables a flexible working environment for
  at-home workers, telecommuters, flex-offices,
  off-shore workers and more
• Includes HP Integrated Citrix XenServer benefits,
  with capabilities only available from HP
• Offers advanced interoperability, including
  Citrix XenApp
• Lowers complexity, cost and energy consumption

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Agenda

• New business challenges
• HP and Citrix partnership and solution
• HP and Citrix value to you
• HP servers, client devices, services
• Citrix Desktop end-to-end desktop delivery
  solution
• Customer success
• HP and Citrix difference
• Now is the time

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New business challenges

• Reducing operating and desktop maintenance/support
  costs
• Reducing business risks and meeting regulatory
  compliance
• Finding new and better solutions for aging
  hardware
• Wanting to get started with virtualization, but
  finding its too complex

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New business challenges

• Needing a fast and easy way to implement desktop
  virtualization
• More fully utilizing computing resources
• Solving desktop challenges and not creating any
  new ones

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What if you could

• Solve your desktop support and maintenance
  challengesfor good
• Extend the life of your existing client devices
• Accelerate your desktop refresh/Microsoft
  Windows Vista rollout
• Streamline desktop operating system management,
  patching, upgrades
• Consolidate/centralize IT for greater control and
  security

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What if you could

• Take an innovative, cost-effective approach for
  desktop and application delivery
• Deliver a new and pristine desktop to every
  user, at every login, complete with personalized
  settings and applications
• Readily adapt to the changes in your business
• Meet your green initiatives

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HP and Citrix partnershipand solution
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HP and Citrix partnership

• Collaborative partnership since 1996
• Leveraging core competencies and best practices
• Mutual customers, as well as partners
• HP is the leader in Citrix environments
• More than 50 percent of Citrix installations
  worldwide run on HP servers (according to a
  recent Citrix survey)
• More than IBM and Dell combined

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HP and Citrix partnership

• Joint engineering solutions
• Dedicated HP team to support Citrix sales,
  operations, marketing, consulting and integration
  services, technical development
• Only partner to have an engineer on-site at
  Citrix worldwide headquarters
• Broadest range of integrated solutions in the
  industry
• Spanning servers, management software, client
  devices, single sign-on, virtualization, storage
  and support services

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HP and Citrix solution overview
Citrix XenDesktop HP ProLiant servers or HP
BladeSystem infrastructure HP Thin Client
access devices HP StorageWorks storage
solutions Todays ideal end-to-end desktop
virtualization solution
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HP and Citrix delivering simple, effective
desktop virtualizationtoday!
November 16, 2009
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HP and Citrix solution overview
Strategic development partners in virtualization
market, co-developed HP Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI)

• End-to-end client virtualization solution
• Based on best-managed and virtualization-ready
  servers, storage and client devices
• Flexible architecture
• Powered by Citrix XenDesktop software
• Supports hypervisors from Citrix, VMware and
  Microsoft
• Manages virtual desktops, as well as blade PCs

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HP and Citrix solution overview
Strategic development partners in virtualization
market, co-developed HP Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure

• Desktop replacement solution
• Provides IT teams with the flexibility to quickly
  deliver and refresh desktops
• Reduces the business risk associated with
  potential data loss or theft
• Lowers the complexity and cost of desktop
  management
• Provides users with a pristine desktop experience
  every time they log on
• Enables IT administrators to manage both physical
  and virtual infrastructure from the same
  centralized console

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HP and Citrix value to you

• Superior user experience
• Delivering a personalized, pristine desktop at
  every login
• Reduced costs associated with desktops
• Ease of maintenance and operating system (OS)
  management
• Simplified desktop management
• Unique value-add from HP Integrated Citrix
  XenServer to provide true out of the box
  virtualization
• HP ProLiant Virtual Console
• HP Systems Insight Manager
• HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO)

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HP and Citrix value to you

• Enhanced power consumption and infrastructure
  utilization
• Ability to purchase, integrate and get support
  for an entire desktop virtualization solution
  from one vendorHP
• No barriers to solution adoption
• Products and services for the complete
  virtualization continuum

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HP servers, storage, client devices, services
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Server building block
What matters in a server for VDI?
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HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers
Ideal server platform for HP VDI

• More efficient virtualization platform
• Deployment advantages
• Virtual Connect no need for MAC or World Wide
  Names (WWN) assignments
• Recovery advantages

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Storage building block
Key considerations for VDI storage

• Storage is the backbone of VDI solutions
• Careful planning is needed when scaling to large
  user base
• How much space per user
• Enable continuity of operations
• Investment matches the importance of the data
• Replication and cloning ability to reduce VDI
  deployments
• Requires high performance to reduce impact users
  experience at log-in time
• Tiered architecture is often in practice
• Usually better to divide storage requests between
  two or more storage controllers
• External direct attach storage (DAS) controllers
  should be increased for onboard cache

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HP StorageWorks
Ideal storage platform for HP VDI

• Scalable capacity expansion
• Centralized consolidated storage
• Integrated snap-shot and remote replication

• Perfect upgrade from DAS
• AiO can be unpacked, installed and running in
  under 15 minutes
• Integrated snap-shot and clone replication

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HP thin clients
Ideal access devices for VDI

• Total cost of ownership
• 80 less maintenance/year
• 25 capital cost savings
• 23 less to operate
• 25 productivity increase
• Power consumption savings
• 20 watts versus 120 watts

Source Zona Research, Intelliquest, META Group
Study
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HP thin clients support VDI
Flexible
Mainstream
Powerful, flexible, easy innovative
Enhanced features for mainstream business use
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Supports Citrix Desktop Appliance Specifications
Price and performance
Microsoft Windows XPe
NeoLinux
Debian Linux
Microsoft Windows CE 5.0

• Ability to run more applications
• Supports richer media experience

• Adds web browser, terminal emulation and media
  player

Flexibility and functionality
Brokers vary by platform
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Best-in-class HP support

• Two-hour response time on all calls, regardless
  of severity
• One-stop support for VMware, Citrix guest OS and
  hardware
• One year 9x5 support and services for HP VDI
  solution
• 24x7 support and Follow the Sun support model

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HP VDI Consulting Services
Solution overview

• HP VDI standard set of services
• HP VDI Planning Services
• HP VDI Quick Start Service
• HP VDI Implementation Services
• HP VDI Options
• HP VDI Supporting Citrix XenDesktop and XenServer
• HP VDI Supporting Citrix XenDesktop and Microsoft
  Hyper-V
• HP VDI Supporting VMware

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Citrix XenDesktop end-to-end desktop delivery
solution
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Citrix XenDesktop

• End-to-end solution from HP
• You benefit from a single vendor for purchase,
  integration and support
• Delivers desktops on-demand
• Dramatically simplifies application lifecycle
  management
• Transforms virtualization into an end-to-end
  desktop delivery solution

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Citrix XenDesktop

• Provides superior user experience
• Offers reliable desktop access management
• Includes desktop enhancement and support
• Offers access to a broad desktop delivery
  ecosystem
• Supports Citrix, VMware and Microsoft hypervisors

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HP VDI difference
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HP VDI difference
The combination of Citrix XenDesktop
qualified and enhanced on HP platforms
provides a simpler desktop deployment and
management environment that speeds adoption of
flexible, cost-saving desktop virtualization
technology
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HP VDI with Citrix XenDesktop a better way to
deliver virtual desktops
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HP VDI package comparison
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Now is the time
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Now is the time

• Enable new flexible work models/environments
• Reduce travel to/from offices
• Support flex-offices, telecommuting, off-shore
  offices and more
• Improve productivity
• Support day-extenders, flex-work hours
• BYOPC Bring your own PC
• Use your PC at home to access resources at work

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Now is the time

• Increase productivity while reducing costs
• By consolidating the desktop environment and
  centralizing desktop management
• Work with leaders in the industry
• Extensive experience in delivering desktop
  virtualization solutions worldwide
• Comprehensive product portfolios
• Best practices services and support

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Why HP VDI with Citrix XenDesktop
The desktop virtualization solution for today and
tomorrow

• HP and Citrix
• Pre-tested, integrated, packaged solutions
• Joint technical evaluation and scalability
  testing of HP VDI
• Creating a world where any worker can work from
  virtually anywhere
• Extensive combined domain expertise
• Citrix XenDesktop coupled with HP platforms
• High-quality, high-performance desktop
  virtualization solution for driving positive
  business results company-wide

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Next steps

• HP platforms presentation
• Agility assessment
• Infrastructure assessment
• Design and architecture
• Proof-of-concept testing
• Implementation

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Thank you for your time and consideration!
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