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Citrix VDI-in-a-Box | Datasheet

Citrix VDI-in-a-BoxSimpliy desktop virtualization withpersonalized VDI that costs lessthan new PCsCitrix VDI-in-a-Box is an all-in-one VDI solution that delivers personalized virtualdesktops or less than the cost o new PCs. VDI-in-a-Box is available as a virtual

appliance that runs on o-the-shel servers and eliminates the need or expensivedatacenter inrastructure. Powered by Citrix HDX technology, VDI-in-a-Box

delivers an excellent quality o experience to users anytime, anywhere and onany device. Designed or desktop IT administrators, VDI-in-a-Box delivers animmediate return on investment (ROI) by being simpler and less expensive to set

up and manage than PCs.

FeaturesPersonalized virtual desktops

VDI-in-a-Box provides personalized desktops where users can install their ownapplications and store their conguration and data.

Users can install applications o their choice, set up their proles and store their data.

Administrators can update and manage these personalized desktops just like

pooled desktops by updating and managing the single master image rom whichthey were generated.

Reduced costs

VDI-in-a-Box reduces VDI inrastructure costs by more than 60 percent comparedto traditional solutions.

Deployed on o-the-shel servers with direct attached storage, VDI-in-a-Boxeliminates the need or specialized servers and expensive SAN storage.

Integrated management and provisioning, sotware-based load balancing andconnection brokering technologies obviate the need or external managementservers, load balancers and connection brokers, respectively.

Centralized administration cuts desktop management and support costs by upto 80 percent. For example, only the master images need to be updated and

patched, rather than every endpoint.

VDI-in-a-Box alls entirely under the purview o Windows desktop administrators,

thereby eliminating the need or specialized networking, virtualization, storageand database administrators.


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Key beneftsDeploy personalized

virtual desktopsor less than the

cost o PCsEliminate over 60

percent o VDI

inrastructure costsIncrease service

levels with built-in

high availabilityGo rom zero to

production in

under an hourStart small and

scale on demand

Provide user accessanytime, anywhere,on any device

Choose rom industry-leading hypervisors

Provide excellentquality o experiencepowered by HDXtechnology

Single-instance management o personalized desktops eliminates more than60 percent o image storage costs. Rather than juggling many persistent

desktops, IT can maintain one master copy o desktop images while preservingthe personalization o user applications and data. This dramatically reduces

recurring management overhead.

Component Cost/CCU Desktop

O-the-shel server1 $100 - $150

VDI-in-a-Box with Citrix HDX $160

Hypervisor2 $0 to $65

Microsot VDA Licence3 $0 to $100

Total $260 to $475 per Desktop

On-demand scalability

The deploy as you grow model gives organizations the fexibility o starting smalland adding more o-the-shel servers as needed.

The hot-pluggable grid can be recongured on demand without having to turno a production grid.

The desktop administrator need only add a hypervisor-equipped server andanswer two questions, and the grid will automatically update the server with allthe necessary sotware and data, then bring it online.

High availability

VDI-in-a-Box provides end-to-end high availability without requiring shared storage.

Using the N+1 model, the grid architecture delivers built-in high availabilitywithout shared storage, connection brokers or external load balancers.

In case a customers IT environment is congured or Microsot Active

Directory ailover, VDI-in-a-Box will deault to a backup Active Directory serverwhen a primary server ails, thereby increasing availability.

The grid-wide virtual IP address eature o VDI-in-a-Box ensures that the entiregrid is accessible by one highly available virtual IP address.

Simple setup, easy management

VDI-in-a-Box can be deployed in less than an hour. Setup, management, support,maintenance and upgrades or this solution couldnt be simpler.

The all-in-one VDI sotware appliance with built-in, policy-based dynamicdesktop provisioning, load balancing and connection brokering enables ulldeployment in less than an hour.

An innovative grid architecture automatically shares conguration and desktopimages, and enables management o all servers as a single entity.

Easy, centralized management cuts desktop management and support costsby up to 80 percent. IT resources are spent on managing centralized corporate

desktop images versus individual endpoints.

1 O-the-shel server cost based on pricing a server rom Dell.com website as o Feb. 2011.2 Hypervisor cost is zero with XenServer and Hyper-V, up to $65/desktop with VMware vSphere/ESXi as o Aug. 2011.3 Microsot VDA is not required with Microsot Sotware Assurance ($0); retail price is $100/primary device/year.


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The intuitive, wizard-driven, point-and-click user interace abstracts virtualizationdetails so a Windows administrator can set up and manage virtual desktops

without any virtualization, SAN or datacenter expertise.

With VDI-in-a-Box, the desktop agent is automatically installed whenevera master image is created or updated. This touchless DTagent savesadministrators time in setting up and maintaining desktop images.

With ull control over VDI desktop names, Windows desktop administrators canautomate various management routines by running scripts inside the desktopsthat leverage their names.

Logs in syslog ormat can be consumed by any third-party log management andanalysis tool such as Splunk and Solarwinds to search, monitor, alert and report

in real time.

Simpliy desktop virtualization

Deliver VDI or less than the cost o PCs with VDI-in-a-Box

Excellent quality o experienceBuilt-in HDX technology ensures a high-denition, high-perormance desktopexperience or users anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Integration with Citrix user prole manager creates a custom user experience bydelivering personalized virtual desktops.

VDI-in-a-Box supports dual datastores to oer bet ter virtual desktop density

by overcoming the input/output operations per second (IOPS) challenge withsmall, high-IOPS SSDs. This dual datastore arrangement with SSDs and

regular SAS disks oers an even better user experience while reducing costper virtual desktop.

The optimization pack or Google Earth, a 3D rendering application, eliminates

the need or a GPU to provide high-resolution graphics or Google Earth whileproviding a good user experience.


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About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) transorms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud,

collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT

simpler and more accessible or 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent o Internet users each day and it partners with more

than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more atwww.citri x.com.

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Open architecture

VDI-in-a-Box eatures an open architecture that provides many platorm andprotocol options.

Virtual ization technology agnostic: it is available on Citrix XenServer, Microsot

Hyper-V and VMware vSphere hypervisors.

Protocol agnostic: it supports both HDX and Microsot RDP technologies.

Security, compliance and data protection

VDI-in-a-Box provides comprehensive security capabilities to protect corporate

data and help ensure regulatory compliance.

Nothing is stored on the endpoint, so data is not put at risk in case o a lost orstolen endpoint device.

Connection between endpoints and the grid is secured.

Seamless single sign-on to a virtual desktop is provided across a VPN.

The abili ty to place users and computers in di erent Windows domains comesin handy when security regulations require a more stringent relationship between

users and their desktops.

Policy-based automation enables administrators to set up access control policies

per user.

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) interace within VDI-in-a-Box enables an

organization to accurately time stamp every single log entry, one o the keysor compliance with requirements rom HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley.
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