1. Architecting your Private Cloud Infrastructure for
Speed and Agility with CloudPlatform Solutions
Tom Davies, Senior Director Product Management, Citrix
Marc Trouard-Riolle, Senior Marketing Manager, Citrix
Rich Wein, President and CEO System Solution Inc. & Aquipt Inc.
Sean Dennin, SVP System Solution Inc. and Aquipt Inc.
May 2014

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Citrix Products discussed
– Citrix CloudPlatform
– Citrix XenServer
– Citrix Cloud Portal Business Manager
Key Takeaways
– A complete Citrix Stack for all cloud layers: out-of-the-box functionality
– Operations, service management & governance capabilities
– Customer-proven production clouds driving real-world business
– Citrix delivers the agility and efficiency demanded by dynamic businesses
Session Summary

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Citrix Private Cloud Architecture
Modular and scalable building
blocks
Flexible component options
Simple to grow and operate
Zone
Load
Balancer
Firewall
….
Pod N
Secondary
Storage
Cluster 1
….
Pod 1
Cluster N
Primary
Storage
Host

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Citrix Private Cloud Architecture
Zone
Load
Balancer
Firewall
….
Pod N
Secondary
Storage
Cluster 1
….
Pod 1
Cluster N
Primary
Storage
Host
Zone
Load
Balancer
Firewall
….
Pod N
Secondary
Storage
Cluster 1
….
Pod 1
Cluster N
Primary
Storage
Host
Citrix clouds can scale
across multiple Availability
Zones
Zones configurations can
be workload optimized
Zone
Load
Balancer
Firewall
….
Pod N
Secondary
Storage
Cluster 1
….
Pod 1
Cluster N
Primary
Storage
Host
Enterprise
Desktops
Cloud-Native
Workloads
Traditional
Workloads

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Storage Performance Flexibility
Primary storage configuration
Support for different storage performance tiers
Flexibility over disk sizing
Provision either local or shared storage
Governance for control of access and consumption
Proven customer value

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Gateway
10.1.1.1
10.1.1.2
10.1.1.3
10.1.1.4
10.1.1.5
Networking Types
Layer-2 Isolation with vLANs
Public
Network/Internet
Guest Virtual
Network 10.1.1.0/24
VLAN 100
DHCP, DNS
NAT
Load Balancing
VPN
Public IP
65.37.14.1
Guest VM
Guest VM
Guest VM
Guest VM
CloudPlatform
Virtual Router
L3 w/Security Groups
L2 Isolation w/VLANs
No Isolation
Overlay Isolation

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Public IP
65.37.14.1
Network Provider Support
Layer-2 Isolation with External Devices for Network Services
Additional support for 3rd party
networking
Physical firewall and load balancers
Enabling increased scale and
enhanced service capabilities
Public
Network/Internet
Private IP
10.1.1.112
DHCP
DNS
Public IP
65.37.14.2
Private IP
10.1.1.111 10.1.1.2
10.1.1.3
10.1.1.4
10.1.1.5
Guest Virtual
Network 10.1.1.0/24
VLAN 100
Guest VM
Guest VM
Guest VM
Guest VM
Juniper SRX
Firewall
NetScaler
CloudPlatform
Virtual Router

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Network Service Flexibility
Multi-tier Network Support for Complex Enterprise Applications
Public IP
65.37.141.111
Public
Network/Interne
t
Private IP
10.1.1.112
DHCP, DNS
User-data
Public IP
65.37.141.112
10.1.1.2 Web
VM1
10.1.1.3
Web
VM2
NetScaler
Load
Balancer
Private IP
10.1.1.111Juniper
SRX
Firewall
CloudPlatform
Virtual Router
Virtual Network
10.1.1.0/24
VLAN 100
Virtual Network
10.1.2.0/24
VLAN 1001
10.1.2.21
10.1.2.18
10.1.2.31
App
VM1 10.1.3.21
Virtual Network
10.1.3.0/24
VLAN 141
10.1.2.24
App
VM2 10.1.3.45
10.1.3.24 DB VM1
DHCP, DNS,
User-data
DHCP, DNS
User-data,
Source-NAT,
VPN Public IP
65.37.141.115
Orchestrate complex
n-tier applications
CloudPlatform
Virtual Router
CloudPlatform
Virtual Router

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Cloud Provisioning of XenDesktop/XenApp
Multiple Workload Types within a Single Cloud
Availability Zone A
XenDesktop Controller
Windows Server Windows Desktop
Apps Desktops Apps Desktops
Controller
XenDesktop
VM
XenDesktop
VM
XenDesktop
VM
Director EdgeSight
Studio
Availability Zone B
XenDesktop
VM
XenDesktop
VM
Pod 1 Pod 2 Pod nPod 1 Pod 2 Pod n
CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack

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Cloud Provisioning of XenDesktop/XenApp
Multiple Workload Types within a Single Cloud
XenDesktop Controller
Windows Server Windows Desktop
Apps Desktops Apps Desktops
Studio
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B Availability Zone C
Controller
XenDesktop
VM
XenDesktop
VM
XenDesktop
VM
XenDesktop
VM
Director EdgeSight
CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack
Server
VM
Server
VM
Server
VM
Server
VM
XenDesktop
VM
Pod 1 Pod 2 Pod nPod 1 Pod 2 Pod nPod 1 Pod 2 Pod n

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“How to deliver a scalable, secure multi-tenant cloud
with end-user self-service, metering and billing, whilst
improving governance, efficiency and cost control”
SSI Business Challenge

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Multi-Vendor Mashup? Or One Stack, One Vendor
Build or Buy?
Better, faster support delivered
through one company vs. trying to
engage multiple vendors
Out-of-the-Box solution allows SSI to
focus on our core business
Citrix Application interoperability

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SSI
SSI’s Powerful Cloud-Enabled Offering
Offers self-service through fully managed solutions
Ability to provision resources for public, private, and hybrid clouds
Enables access to apps and data from any device, anywhere, anytime

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SSI Architecture
Leveraging Citrix Cloud Architecture
Isolated networking
• Application & User Security
Storage tiering
• Flexibility, cost optimisation and predictable
performance
Delivering cloud infrastructure
resilience
10Gbps
Storage
& Mgmt
1Gbps
Guest
10Gbps
Storage
& Mgmt
1Gbps
Guest
…
Core Switch
Aggregation
Switch
TOR Switch
Compute
Nodes
FC
Primary
Storage
NFS
Secondar
y Storage
Pod 1 …Pod n
10Gbps
Storage
& Mgmt
1Gbps
Guest
Pod 2
Internet
NetScalers

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SSI Architecture
Router
L3 Core Switch
Top of
Rack
Switch
……… …
Servers
Primary Mgmt
Server Cluster
Object Store
Availability Zone 2
Pod 1 Pod 2 Pod 3 Pod N
MySQL
Load Balancer
Cloud Operations
Admin
Availability Zone 1
Standby Mgmt
Server Cluster
MySQL

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Service Enablement, Governance and Support
Productivity gains from product integration and self-service components
Cloud automation increased the support capacity of our service delivery team
Centralised billing and resource management
Restricted, but not restrictive administration access with comprehensive logging

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MatterPoint e-Discovery Platform
Aquipt’s MatterPoint platform enables law firms and vendors alike to transform the
complexities and expense of operating and supporting in house e-discovery
infrastructure into an easy to use, affordable service.
Advanced storage tiers address the demands of processing and archive data
Network isolation ensures privacy and protection for a firm’s client data
Web based control panel for self service administration and transparency
Metered usage allows pass through billing and cost certainty per project

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Large Law Firm & Software Vendor
Large law firm needed rapid deployment of Lateral Data’s resource intensive
ViewPoint e-Discovery application.
AMLaw 200 Firm
• Rapid Deployment
• Scalability
• Security
• Cost certainty
• Full support
Lateral Data
• Reduced sales cycle/ barriers to sale
• Optimized deployment
• Security

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Document Review Firm
Large public document review firm leveraged SSI’s MySecureCloud platform to
gain the flexibility, agility and control required in multiple large scale but always
temporary deployments.
1800 Managed Review Seats
Central management and deployment of computing infrastructure
Improved logistics for physical equipment
Subscription operating expense
Flexibility to scale and contract with project demands

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SSI Summary
Citrix technology for complete hosted environments
Delivers secure and scalable infrastructures rapidly,
in about 25% of the time that they previously took to deploy
SSI was able to increase cloud revenue by 50% in 2013,
without additional headcount
Utilized for complete hosted environments and specific e-Discovery applications
Business vertical agnostic, catering for public sector and commercial
organizations

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Citrix Products discussed
– Citrix CloudPlatform
– Citrix XenServer
– Citrix Cloud Portal Business Manager
Key Takeaways
– A complete Citrix Stack for all cloud layers: out-of-the-box functionality
– Operations, service management & governance capabilities
– Customer-proven production clouds driving real-world business
– Citrix delivers the agility and efficiency demanded by dynamic businesses
Session Summary

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250+Large Scale
Production Clouds
In Deployment
Production sites
with over
40,000+
Servers per Region
Service Providers | Telcos
Web 2.0
Enterprise | Education | Government

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Additional Cloud Sessions @ Synergy
Questions?
Date Time Session Title Speaker(s) Location
5/8
10:30am SYN111
From the Field: Autodesk’s Journey Towards
Private Cloud Computing with Citrix CloudPlatform
Shannon Williams
Autodesk: Jason Smathers
Ballroom D
11:30am SYN229
What’s New in Citrix CloudPortal Business
Manager
Jie Feng, Kailas Jawadekar 304C
3:30pm SYN263
What's New in Citrix XenServer: Graphics
Performance, Scalability and More!
David Cottingham, Ken Lee 304A

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