How to Make OpenStack VDI and Desktops-as-a-Service a Reality

Bob EwanouskiVice President of Sales

Karen GondolyCOO

Jamie CrawshawDaaS Sales

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Introduction to Leostream

Basic overview of OpenStack

OpenStack VDI – How and Why

Managing OpenStack VDI - Demonstration

Questions?

Agenda

About Leostream

Premier Connection Broker management platform for hosted desktops for over 10 years.

Large organizations with complicated use cases require additional management capability and control settings provided by Leostream.

Hundreds of organizations rely on Leostream Connection Broker and DaaS to make desktop virtualization work.

• Physical and virtual desktops (HDI and VDI)

• Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix virtualization platforms

• Viewing protocols include HP RGS, SPICE, NX, RDP/RemoteFX, HDX/ICA, Exceed onDemand, VNC, and PCoIP

• Windows and Linux remote desktops

Enterprise-Ready Approach to Connection Management

Technical Alliance Partnerships

OpenStack

Basics

OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter

Open Source!

Commercial versions available: VMware, HP, Mirantis, etc.

OpenStack Overview

Nova - Compute

Cinder – Block storage

Swift – Object storage

Comprised of Individual Projects Addressing Specific Functionality

Glance - Imaging

Horizon – Dashboard

Neutron - Networking

OpenStack Hypervisor Support

Any option is just fine if you’re managing VDI/DaaS!

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html

KVM

Most feature-rich option

Default hypervisor in many OpenStack distributions

Commercial Hypervisors

VMware vSphere

Citrix XenServer

Microsoft Hyper-V

Building an OpenStack Cloud

OpenStack VDI and Desktops-as-a-Service

Multi-tenant

On-Demand Availability

Networking

Less expensive

4 Reasons OpenStack is Suited to VDI and Desktops-as-a-Service

Users can be grouped into Projects or Tenants

Projects can include quotas, to limit compute, storage, etc., used by a particular tenant

For DaaS environments, this allows the MSP to separate and track resource allocation per customer

Multi-tenant

Build custom images for each customer or use case

Spin up new desktops from these images in minutes

On-Demand Availability

Provide private network for each tenant/customer

Each tenant can have its own IP address scheme

Instances are isolated within their defined network

Security groups define Firewall rules

Networking

Avoids commercial licenses associated with other VDI stacks

Many hypervisors are free!

Less Expensive

Leostream allows you to manage and connect users to desktops in an OpenStack cloud.

Managing OpenStackClouds with Leostream

How to manage boot and login storms

How to provide adequate performance for the applications and desktop connection

How to get users connected to their desktops

Considerations when building VDI/DaaS in an OpenStack cloud

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How to manage boot and login storms

Schedule instances to be created and powered on before high demand begins

Power down or terminate instances that are no longer in use or needed

Cluster the connection broker that processes user logins

1.

How to provide adequate performance

Use instance size appropriate to installed applications

Use a display protocol with adequate performance

2.

How to get users connected to their desktops

Choose a connection broker that supports your environment

Consider if you will host Windows and/or Linux Oss

Make sure the broker supports your chosen display protocol

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What Can You Do With Leostream/OpenstackIntegration?

Leostream leverages the OpenStack APIs to:

1Manage the inventory of instances (desktops)

in OpenStack

2Provision new

instances from existing images

3Assign public IP

addresses to new instances

Administrator Workflow

Pools of OpenStack instances based on use cases

Parameters that determine how the users connection to their instance is established and managed

Rules that indicate which pools users may access

Use a Connection Broker to Define…

OpenStack VDI Demonstration

Conclusion

OpenStack clouds are viable solutions for hosting VDI or Desktops-as-a-Service

Any hypervisor is suitable for desktop workloads

Key to delivering desktops is choosing an adequate display protocol and connection broker

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