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Whether you are migrating from Citrix XenApp 4.5 to 6.5 or from 6.5 to 7.5, or you are virtualizing your desktops as part of your Windows XP to Windows 7/8 migration project, performance is a key priority. Users will expect the same or better performance after the migration as they had before the migration. When performance problems occur, the migration is always blamed first! Join this webinar to learn about the latest best practices and secrets for making your Citrix and desktop migrations successful. Performance management experts Dennis Callaghan (Senior Analyst, 451 Research), Rick Ruskin (Vice President, VDX) and Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) will discuss how to: - Transform your Citrix and desktop environments successfully without project delays or cost overruns - Deliver superior end-user experience, simplify management, and reduce cost - before, during and after migration - Assure user satisfaction by pre-emptively detecting and resolving performance issues - before users are impacted - Utilize next-gen management solutions to accelerate troubleshooting and identify the true root-cause of problems (is it the Network? Database? Application? Citrix? Virtual platform? Storage?) - Ensure maximum ROI by right-sizing IT infrastructure using powerful analytics & reporting
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PresentersDennis Callaghan (451 Research)Rick Ruskin (VDX)Bala Vaidhinathan (eG Innovations)
Citrix & Desktop Migration Success The 3 Secrets to User Satisfaction and ROI
• Migration and related challenges
• Keys to Successful Migration
• Real world case-studies
• Q & A
Agenda
• User experience issues
• Lack of visibility across silos
• Complex and/or slow issue identification
• Proactive problem solving
• Lack of representative baselines
Poll: What Are Your Biggest Migration Performance Challenges?
Migration Challenges
Dennis CallaghanSenior Analyst451 [email protected]
Significant change underway in today’s IT environments:
• Traditional desktop to virtual desktop (including upgrade XenApp 4.5 to 6.5, 6.5 to 7.5, Windows XP to Windows 7/8)
• Physical to cloud migration, including hybrid cloud. Don’t forget software!
• Virtualization of infrastructure and app layers—some legacy apps not designed for virtualization
• Moving off Windows Server 2003 and AIX. They’re still out there!
Users expect the same or better performance after the migration as they had before the migration. And when performance
problems occur, the migration is blamed first.
Migration Trends
• Migration increases complexity of underlying IT platforms—Dependencies discovered the hard way.
• Migration project delays due to unexpected performance and availability issues
• Migration project cost overruns due to new hardware and software demands/requirements greater than original design
• Legacy applications running on legacy infrastructure. Don’t know where to start.
• Configuration Drift: ITSM issue that leads to performance issues
Common Migration Challenges
Where the puck’s going
Challenges ahead
• Where does my application reside? What services/infrastructure does it depend on?
• Will my current monitoring tools work in new environments my applications/infrastructure are moving to?
• Can I get a true “single pane of glass” of performance levels from multiple monitoring tools?
• Can I maintain configuration integrity when changes are constantly made?
• Can I maintain a consistent view of end-user experience as applications and infrastructure migrate, especially with more applications being accessed by mobile devices?
• Can I foster more collaboration/cooperation between developers and operations teams (DevOps)
Keys to Successful Migration
Bala VaidhinathanCTO, eG [email protected]
Migration Considerations
Configuration
• Configuration at the hardware/OS/app layers
• Physical Virtual / 32 Bit 64 Bit
• App/OS Compatibility
• App/OS Dependencies
• Private/Public Cloud dependencies & setup
• Assessments
Migration Considerations
Performance• Performance Baselines of pre-migration environment.
• Total performance visibility into the post migrated environment
• User Experience tracking
• Identifying Bottlenecks, Peak Usage, Capacity
• Critical when it comes to migration, but often overlooked
3 Keys to Success
Citrix & Desktop Migration
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Citrix & Desktop Migration
Performance Baselines
Performance Baselines
• How is the user experience in the pre-upgrade environment?
• What are the current usage patterns in the pre-upgrade environment?
• What are the consumption patterns in the pre-upgrade environment?
• What are the baselines for the pre-upgrade environment for user/app/OS/infrastructure performance?
• Ability to track all of the above in the post-upgrade environment and compare
• Key to success is to get equal or better user experience without compromising other KPIs
Understand User Experience
Know how user
experience is impacted
Know when and where
it is impacted
Understand User Behavior
Know usage patterns and trends for effective capacity planning.
Top Users based on
activity and impact on resources
Understand Applications Usage
Understand application usage patterns and trends to effectively size the environment and maximize resources
Baseline
Actual Metric
Multi-level auto-baselining of the environment helps you automatically identify trends and pro-actively
isolate performance issues.
Automatic Baselining
Event Analysis
Event analysis gives you a perspective of the type and frequency of Performance Issues in the
VDI environment
Understand Peak Utilization
Identify Peak demand and the time of demand
VDI Demand vs Consumption
Understanding Desktop Demand vs VDI infrastructure resource consumption during
peak Demand
Use Case – Successful Migration
Performance before migration
Performance after migration
XenApp 4.5 to 6.5XenApp 6.5 to 7.5
XenDesktop 5 to 7.5
2
Citrix & Desktop Migration
Total Visibility
WhoWhat How
User complaints are about the “service”, not about individual tiers.
Total Visibility
WhoWhat How
To troubleshoot user service performance issues, end-to-end visibility is required.
Performance Management
WhoWhat How
Profile Management
SharefileControl
DeviceManager
CitrixPerforma
nce Managem
ent
Citrix & VDI performance management must cover the non-Citrix tiers as well.
Total Visibility
A Real-World Example without Total Visibility
08:00User to the helpdesk – “my application access is very slow. I am not able to work properly.”
8:00AM
Helpdesk
We will get on it right away!
A Real-World Example
The helpdesk has received many calls that application access is slow. The Citrix admin is called to look at the issue.
9:00AM
Things look
normal from
here …
Citrix ServiceManager
The load is not unusually high – there are 5 active
sessions.
Logon times are ok.
Citrix ServiceManager
A Real-World Example
Director’s availability
monitoring of the infrastructure also
shows nothing wrong.
9:30AM
09:30 Basic infrastructure status checks don’t reveal problems.
Citrix ServiceManagerA Real-World Example
Search for a specific user.
See processes that the user is running and
their CPU & memory.
View HDX channel information for the
user.
10:00AM
10:00 User-by-user troubleshooting begins.
What Follows …
•
Citrix Director / EdgeSight
VMware VCOPS - Virtual
Task Manager - Windows
Event Viewer - Windows
EMC Ionix - Storage
Cisco UCS Manager - Hardware
CiscoWorks - Network
A Real-World Example
08:00 Helpdesk receives a call that application access is slow
09:00 Helpdesk has received many calls that application access is slow. The Citrix admin is called to look at the issue.
11:00 The Citrix admin has reviewed Director/EdgeSight metrics, has killed the offending process. But user complaints persist.
12:00 The Citrix admin decides to reboot the server but the problem persists even after the reboot.
13:00 The problem does not appear to be specific to Citrix. The Citrix admin calls for a conference call with the other administrators .
17:00 After hours of troubleshooting, the problem is identified in the VMware tier!
Slo
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anual dia
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Performance Management
with Total Visiblity
•
Real-World Example - Revisited
06:30The helpdesk receives an automatic alert saying that access to Ctirix is slowing down. No user has been impacted yet.
6:30AM
Helpdesk
This looks odd. Let’s get to the bottom of this before users start calling …
•
Triage Problems Quickly
The application that is
responsible for the slow down – a
samba backup job
6:35AM
Helpdesk
Yup, the backup job is
taking up resource
s …
•
Focus on the Root-Cause, Not Effects
Without root-cause diagnosis, you have no idea where the problem lies
With root-cause diagnosis, you have a clear idea of what to do to resolve the problem.
All the problems appear to be equally important.
The root-cause of the problem
The effects of the problem
The Result
06:30 The helpdesk seels an alert of a slowdown with Citrix access.
06:35The helpdesk reviews the service topology and determines that there is an issue on the VMware server. Contacts the VM administrator.
06:45The VMware administrator realizes that the backup job is impacting the user experience. Reschedules the backup job for later in the evening.
Performance Management Made
Rapid
and a
uto
mate
d
dia
gnosi
s
Profile Management
SharefileControl
DeviceManager
CitrixPerforma
nce Managem
ent Total Visibility with Performance Management gives comprehensive coverage to be pro-active
End to End Performance Management
3
Citrix & Desktop Migration
Rightsizing for ROI
Real-Time VDI Overview
CPU bottleneck identified
Isolate bottlenecks to growth in real-time
Use Case – Performance Optimization
A few of the servers are
handling most of the sessions
Citrix Architect
Use Case – Bottleneck Analysis
Analyze which tier is the bottleneck
Know How to Invest Wisely
Memory bottleneck preventing addition of
more Desktops
Identify and resolve VDI bottlenecks and excess capacity
and right-size your environment.
Assess Users, Not Just VMs
See performance issues at the user level so you can fix
and right-size your VDI environment for user satisfaction.
CPU usage inside a virtual desktop
is high
Deep Visibility Into Sessions
The top CPU process is
Windows Media Player. The user
is watching a movie
Deep Visibility Into Sessions
Accelerate problem resolution by understanding why a VM is consuming
resources.
Case of Disk I/O Bottleneck
Clicking the Magnifying glass reveals the Root Cause which turned out to be a rogue process consuming Disk I/O
Forecast the Future
Predicted FUTURE performance
based on the past
Citrix Architect
Assess/Plan/
Design
MigratePost-
Migration
Maintain
Migration Performance Assurance
3 Keys
- Performance Baselines
- Total Visibility - Rightsizing for
ROI
Performance Assurance
using
eG
Pre-Migrati
on
Real-World Migration Case Study
Rick RuskinVice President Sales & [email protected]
Our Mission
A premier consulting organization that specializes in redefining the way companies manage, package and distribute their desktops, applications and services to end users. A provider of unique technologies that assure the success of those projects.
Connecting People Process and Technology
• Microsoft, Vmware, Citrix, NetApp expertise
• Microsoft National System Integrator – Merit based designation
• Proven customer success
• Migrated over 200,000 XP desktops in the past year
• Deep technical capabilities
• Level 400 consultants ONLY
• Core focused on enterprise infrastructure:
• Desktop transformation
• Private and public cloud
• The management tools to optimizethese solutions
About VDX
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What We Deliver
Strategic Platform Engagements
Technology Implementations
Desktop/Data Center Migration &
Transformation
Cloud Acceleration
AssessKnowledgeTransfer
Plan
Pilot
Transform
• High level goals in any of these migrations is to upgrade as much of the infrastructure as possible to avoid major architectural work every time an upgrade needs to take place.
• Current major Migration initiatives in flight today:
• XP End of Life
• Server 2003 End of Life
• Citrix 4.5 End of Life
Migrations
• Approximately 33% of Desktops still running XP
• Even if you are 80% migrated, there is considerable work to be done
• Why is it imperative that you finish the migration process?
• Security upgrades WILL end soon
• Third party software companies will cease support soon
• No ability to acquire new hardware that supports XP
• The cost for extended support from Microsoft will continue to increase over time
XP End-of-Life Migrations
• Build out of supporting infrastructure – upgrade to SC2012
• Re-packaging and virtualization of applicationsso that at next O/S most of the work is done
• Profile management and performance management technologies:
• Preserve user experience
• Decouple personna from physical devices
• Enablement of automation and self-service portal for application download
• All this creates the foundation or BYOD and private cloud
Windows 7/8 Migration
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Enablement of the Cloud
• Migrations are also the time to initiate your Cloud strategy:
• RAG assessment against the application portfolio
At the end of 2014, not only will XP be eradicated from their
environment, but they will have enabled over 30,000 users to
access any application, from any worldwide location, from ANY
supported Device
Global Fortune 100 Health Insurance Company
• VDX decoupled personas from desktops
• VDX virtualized all applications across the organization. Now virtually O/S independent.
• VDX Build out a virtualized XenApp infrastructure for all apps that couldn’t be virtualized.
• Enabled IT to more easily support large user community across all geo’s
In roughly One year, totally transformed environment from
Physical with much EOL product, to Modern, Up To Date, and
Cloud-Ready
Mortgage and Lending Leader
Massively parallel modernization of entire desktop infrastructure which included:
• Upgrading to System Center 2012
• Virtualizing and de-coupling of user profiles
• Upgrading all desktops to Windows 7 or 8
• Enabling folder redirection
• Virtualizing or repackaging of 1,000’s of applications and building application catalogues
In less than 5 Months, the entire Environment was transitioned from Windows XP to Windows 7/8, and
NO Financial penalties were incurred
Mid-Size Regional Bank
• Needed to get off XP before April, 2014 deadline
• As of November 2013, no apps had been migrated and all DT’s were still running XP
• Built out SCCM 2012 so could do “zero touch” upgrades
• Took “Virtualize First” approach to applications and put the others into Citrix
• Virtualized profiles to ensure positive user experience
Q&AAsk the Experts
About eG Innovations
eG Innovations is the only enterprise-class performance management solution that provides virtualization-aware correlation and complete visibility across every layer and every tier of dynamic & complex cloud, virtual, and physical IT environments to reliably deliver mission-critical business services.
WorldwideLocations USA, UK, Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, India
Customers Over 1000 customers
Certifications
Awards & Recognition
Customer Success
• eG Innovations – www.eginnovations.com
• Bala Vaidhinathan - [email protected]
• eG Innovations Resources
• XenApp Monitor – www.eginnovations.com/xenapp
• XenDesktop Monitor – www.eginnovations.com/xendesktop
• Product Trial – www.eginnovations.com/trial
Resources, Q & A