Planning and Pulling Off Your Citrix Cloud Migration
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Whether you’ve already embarked on the Citrix Cloud migration journey or are just evaluating options, there are best practices that will make the process go smoother. This presentation includes: - Citrix Cloud architecture and operations overview - How to prep for migration - Business continuity and disaster recovery planning - Importance of testing, testing, testing - Go-live…and beyond Presented by GTRI Director of Engineering Craig Jeske and Citrix Solutions Engineer Michael Pahl.
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Planning and Pulling Off Your Citrix Cloud Migration
- 1. PLANNING, AND PULLING OFF, YOUR CITRIX CLOUD MIGRATION ENVISION DESIGN DEPLOY EVOLVE
- 2. AGENDA 1 Why Citrix in the Cloud? 2 Citrix Cloud Overview 3 Prepare for the Migration 4 To Go Live and Beyond 5 Q&A with Open Discussion
- 3. WHY CITRIX IN THE CLOUD? ENVISION DESIGN DEPLOY EVOLVE
- 4. COMMON BUSINESS DRIVERS SECURITY DECREASE COST STABILITY / SCALABILITY MANAGABILITY / SUPPORTABILITY CLOUD Reduce risk and enhance security posture 7 Shrinking Operational Budgets Ability to grow or shrink on demand as the business does the same Organizations desire to move from CapEx to OpEx Staff is shrinking while complexity is increasing
- 5. Use Cases 6 • Small IT staff environments • Distributed user environments • Multiple geographies • Multiple compliance regions • Follow the sun IT management • Hardware end of life scenario • Declining data center budgets Uptime Institute / ZDnet
- 6. CITRIX AS A SERVICE ENVISION DESIGN DEPLOY EVOLVE
- 7. User State Virtualization Application Virtualization OS Virtualization Jointly Integrated, Unified Management Microsoft and Citrix better together
- 8. IT is Undergoing a Cloud Transformation On-premises Installed Software Software Builders Capital Expenses Transactional Sales Cloud-First as-a-Service Service Brokers Operating Expenses Subscriptions
- 9. Service available now Service available soon Secure Browser Smart Tools AppDNA Express IoT Automation 3rd Party Services XenApp and XenDesktop XenMobile ShareFile NetScaler Gateway Service Citrix Cloud: Uniting Delivery of All Citrix Services Cloud-based management and delivery for all Citrix workspace technologies Hybrid Cloud | Private Cloud | Any Public Cloud | Any Hypervisor
- 10. Where Citrix Cloud Helps Reduction in overall complexity, infrastructure, time Traditional SW Deployment Citrix Cloud Hybrid Deployment Citrix Cloud Cloud Deployment ITEffort Upgrade cycles HW procurement Capacity/sizing Software set-up App/OS Virtualization SW maintenance Admin time Admin time App/OS Virtualization Software set-up HW procurement Capacity/sizing Admin time App/OS Virtualization Software set-up Example: XenApp and XenDesktop Service
- 11. Value of Citrix Cloud Subscriptions and SaaS Model Citrix Operates the platform Platform is all-inclusive Fewer servers to own/operate Transparent upgrades Citrix integrates the services Inherent multi-site capable Maintenance and support included Connectivity included
- 12. PREPARING FOR THE MIGRATION ENVISION DESIGN DEPLOY EVOLVE
- 13. 13 Considerations for Migration • What level of external support do we want? • What level of external support do we NEED?
- 14. 14 On Premise Managed Service Cloud Based Hosted & Managed TODAY’S SPECTRUM OF CITRIX HOSTING OPTIONS
- 15. 15 Considerations for Migration • What level of external support do we want? • What level of external support do we NEED? • Where should my desktops live? • Should the workloads remain on premise? • Should I be looking at the Cloud? • Where do my high latency applications live? • Keep the desktops “close” to the applications • Coordinate potential desktop move to the Cloud the dev group
- 16. 16 Cloud or On-premise Sizing Considerations • Workspace size requirements • Workspace schedule requirements • 24x7x365 • 8x5 work week • Desktop type • Dedicated • Pooled • Performance requirements
- 17. 17 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Requirements • Retention/Frequency • Recovery Time Objective • Recovery Point Objective
- 18. 18 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Requirements • Retention/Frequency • Recovery Time Objective • Recovery Point Objective • Geographic requirements • Separate disaster zones • Economic zone regulations • Regulatory requirements • Country specific • Industry specific
- 19. 19 Test Plan Creation • User functionality testing • User experience testing • System performance testing • Network performance testing • Network latency • Network bandwidth • To end users • To applications • Fail-over testing
- 21. GO LIVE AND BEYOND ENVISION DESIGN DEPLOY EVOLVE
- 22. 22 Additional Citrix Cloud Potential • Leverage additional Citrix Cloud options • MDM • File sharing • Workflow automation • Spread workloads across Clouds • For application proximity • For data sovereignty requirements • For geographic consolidation
- 23. 23 Performance Monitoring • Long term success relies on user acceptance
- 24. 24 Performance Monitoring • Long term success relies on user acceptance • Monitoring is key • Consider outside offerings (i.e. Lakeside or others) • Talk to users about their experience
- 26. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING ENVISION DESIGN DEPLOY EVOLVE cjeske@gtri.com michael.pahl@citrix.com
Editor's Notes
- [Initial Build] Microsoft and Citrix are better together in delivering the best complete Application Virtualization solution in market: Microsoft…is the Market Leader for Desktops Best in class Application Virtualization Over 45m MDOP licenses sold and more than 100 cases studies of global companies using App-V and many together in partnership with Citrix technologies Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop provide full support for App-V integrated the delivery of virtual applications to the Citrix Receiver or surfaced within Cloud Gateway for self service. Customers can get the best of both virtual application and virtual desktops by combining Microsoft and Citrix. With UE-V, customers can be confident their personalized settings for the OS and applications will be with them no matter how they access Windows 7 or Windows 8. If they are using XenDesktop for their virtual desktops or XenApp for application access, UE-V will keep their experience consistent in both cases. Modern Server Platform Microsoft Cloud OS vision delivers a modern platform of products and services that helps enterprises transform their current infrastructure. The Cloud OS delivers Integrated Virtualization via Hyper-V and VDI to help enterprises achieve the modern datacenter, which includes an infrastructure that provides a generational leap in agility, leveraging virtualization to deliver a highly scalable and elastic infrastructure with always-on, always-up services across shared resources and supporting cloud service delivery models with more automated management and self- service provisioning. With Windows Server 2012, the Microsoft Cloud OS is engineered for the cloud from the metal up with virtualization built as an integrated element of the operating system, not layered onto the operating system. Citrix technologies are built to run on Microsoft. XenDesktop and XenApp can be run on top of Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V and if desirable HDX and RemoteFX can be used together. Microsoft Hyper-V is the Hypervisor optimized for VDI (with a 40% higher VM density) Microsoft System Center offers People-centric management of Devices, Desktops and virtual assets, from hardware to apps, data and OS, in the cloud or on premises Is integrated with Citrix via the XenApp Connector allowing XenApp apps to be managed and delivered through SCCM. Together, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Citrix XenDesktop ensures IT organization have a more accurate inventory of virtual desktops, improved enforcement of configuration policies, greatly enhanced reporting to meet business and technical demands, and complete automation of virtual disk patching. Citrix XenApp and System Center Configuration Manager in combination facilitate a broad range of application and desktop delivery mechanisms demanded by today’s business needs. This also enables a single pane of glass to deliver any Windows application to any user on any device through the broad footprint of Citrix Receiver. Citrix XenDesktop and System Center Virtual Machine Manager pairing enables delivery of high-availability and load balancing services for XenDesktop virtual machines while leveraging Citrix Provisioning Services to extend scalability to thousands of concurrent virtual desktops in a single infrastructure. By integrating the XenApp’s robust provisioning features with the hypervisor management features in Virtual Machine Manager, administrators can add (or remove) computing horsepower to meet growing and/or flexible demands. Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Manager in combination with Citrix XenServer facilitates unified virtual machine management across both XenServer and Hyper-V hypervisors with the same levels of parity for deployment, migration and a variety of host management functions. Citrix in cooperation with ComTrade has developed a Management Pack that extends Operations Manager’s vision deeply into a XenDesktop infrastructure. This added visibility greatly enhances the efficacy of Operations Manager’s behavioral, logging, and performance monitoring, and aids IT administrators in quickly tracking down problems and implementing resolutions. Citrix is…the market Leader for Virtual Desktops with XenDesktop which provides a solution that supports all FlexCast models to deliver virtualization scenarios on any device type. Here are some examples on where Citrix brings additional value on top of the Microsoft platform. Receiver, XenDesktop and XenApp help customers when they have needs in the following areas: Many devices types accessing Windows applications or desktops in the datacenter A consistent rich experience across ALL - Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 & 8 over LAN/WAN Non-Windows devices accessing Windows applications or desktops in the datacenter over LAN or WAN Hosted Application compatibility for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 and down level operating systems - i.e. Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or below Customers need to mix & manage multiple Windows Server versions WAN support for sessions running on Servers other than Windows 2012 Need enterprise scale VDI administration tools that integrate with system center Extend VDI solutions beyond sessions and VMs to include Desktop Streaming using PVS Need to embrace both private and public clouds XA solutions on common IaaS clouds powered by Citrix CloudPortal Service Manager Citrix provides the only certified workload on MS Private Cloud Support customers with heterogeneous hypervisors in the datacenter XenClient provides an enterprise client hypervisor solutions for all users that enables: Efficient image management and update via the XenClient Synchronizer that can deliver images to clients both on the LAN and WAN. Provide the ability for everyday users to leverage their Windows Enterprise license by simply being able to use multiple local VMs with all their USB devices and rich graphics capabilities Enable high security scenarios by leveraging a ‘kill pill’ feature to automatically suspend the use of VMs that have not contacted home frequently enough Together, Microsoft and Citrix offer best of breed solutions for all Desktop Virtualization Scenarios. We’ll talk about each of these in turn over the next few slides
- With the sea-change toward Cloud and SaaS, every IT organization is re-thinking how it operates. On-premises software models are adopting cloud-first SaaS approaches The burden of installing software is being displaced by software-as-a-Service, where upgrades and maintenance are a thing of the past. IT staffs are shifting their skill-sets and mentalities from becoming engineers and builders, to more of service brokers and assemblers Infrastructure that consisted of large capital outlays is being replaced by subscription-based cloud-based infrastructure and services which are recorded as operating expenses. The idea of a transactional software sale – where the vendor “walks away” – is being displaced by subscription services, where the vendor is always responsible for service delivery and quality.
- Think of Citrix Cloud as a management plane spanning multiple Citrix products. The core cloud services are operated by Citrix, and contain all of the management functions customers would ordinarily have to install and provision themselves. The value here is that Citrix has already deployed – and integrated – all of our services into Citrix Cloud. So in many cases, all a customer needs to do is activate, configure and deploy them. <CLICK> for services like the XenApp and XenDesktop service that have components that require specific deployment locations (such as for virtual desktop machines), Citrix Cloud allows for deployment on ANY cloud or infrastructure. This is VERY different from any of our competitors, who require that management AND apps/data all reside in the same cloud. And all services are based on our core award-winning products such as XenApp, XenDesktop, XenMobile, ShareFile, NetScaler and AppDNA With the ability to allow customers to place workloads and data ANYWHERE they want, Citrix Cloud gives them an unparalleled degree of control over security, simplicity and flexibility.
- Where does Citrix Cloud remove cost and complexity? Take the XenApp and XenDesktop Service as an example. In a traditional software-based deployment, customers invest in capacity, procuring hardware, configuring the Citrix software, virtualizing apps and desktops, maintaining Citrix software, administering to the stack, and occasionally investing in comprehensive Citrix upgrade cycles. When using Citrix Cloud to manage a local (Hybrid) deployment, customers can completely avoid many of the time/labor costs they’re accustomed to – specifically they no longer have to worry about Citrix software maintenance (Citrix Cloud automatically maintains the services) and similarly, customers never have to worry about upgrades (as Citrix Cloud manages this too). Additionally, customers enjoy reduced time/labor costs because (a) much of the hardware needed to actually run Citrix software is eliminated, and much of the software configuration is similarly reduced/eliminated. Overall, simplicity in set-up/management is the largest single savings Citrix Cloud provides When using Citrix Cloud to manage a cloud-based deployment, customers of course enjoy even greater time/labor savings, since HW sizing and deployment is eliminated – shifting it to an OpEx cost with the cloud provider of their choice.
- Citrix operates the Cloud for you: The Citrix Cloud management plane is provided by Citrix, and is as an always-on SaaS-style cloud service. That means that Citrix management infrastructure, scaling, monitoring, and delivery technology is always maintained and kept up-to-date – relieving your need to monitor, scale and/or manage updates of the Citrix software. All-inclusive: Citrix provides all of the ‘hidden’ infrastructure such as database and brokering infrastructure, as well as the cloud connector software agent. Citrix Cloud subscription packages include everything from Citrix you need to get going. Just bring your data center, public cloud or private cloud. Fewer servers to buy: Because Citrix operates the management components of each service, you have less infrastructure to buy or if you are deploying into a cloud, you have less IaaS to consume. For example, with XenApp and XenDesktop service, Citrix operates the services for delivery controllers, SQL database server, studio, director, and the licensing server. Even though you still operate VDA servers, there is less fixed infrastructure, installation and operational costs you’ll incur. Transparent upgrades: Upgrades to the Citrix Cloud management plane, as well as upgrades to individual services, are all automatic. This added value allows customers to take advantage of the latest Citrix technology as soon as it’s available, and avoid the operational overhead of manual upgrades. Citrix integrates: Integration between individual services is automatic and provided as part of the Citrix Cloud management plane. That means customers no longer need to spend time hand-crafting service interactions. Inherent multi-site management: For deployments with 2 or more geographic locations, Citrix Cloud eliminates the need for management infrastructure in each location, saving on hardware and labor. Maintenance and support included: Software maintenance is included with Citrix Cloud; in addition, enterprise-grade 24x7x365 support is also included with each subscription package. Connectivity included: All key connectivity features are included in each subscription package for example the ICA Proxy VPX, CloudBridge Connector, and Citrix Cloud Connector for resource location connectivity and monitoring.
- Also attributed to Alan Lakein