CDH, a vendor-neutral company with over 21 years of experience, specializes in application virtualization, offering benefits like reduced deployment times and improved security. The document discusses various virtualization technologies from vendors such as VMware and Microsoft, detailing tools like ThinApp and App-V along with their features and deployment practices. Key insights include the efficiency gains from application packaging and support, as well as upcoming briefings on SharePoint and Office 365.

1. CDH
Application Virtualization
CDH Smackdown
February 2011

2. CDH Quick Facts
About Us Approach Partnerships
• 21st Year • Vendor Neutral • Microsoft Gold
• Central Region Client
• Grand Rapids & • Non-reseller Experience Award Winner
Royal Oak • Professional • VMware Enterprise
• 30 Staff Services Only • Cisco Premier
• Novell Platinum
• Citrix Silver

3. CDH Expertise
Project Management Infrastructure
Collaboration Access & Identity Management

4. CDH CDH Talks Tech

5. CDH Your Presenters
• Eric Inch
VCP, MCITP, CISSP
EricI@cdh.com
• Jason Cooper
VCP, MCITP, MCNE
JasonC@cdh.com

6. CDH Agenda
• Overview
• Benefits
• Business Case
• Vendors
– VMware
– Microsoft
• Best Practice
• Summary

7. CDH Overview
• What is application virtualization?
• Isolated containers for applications
– OS, registry, file system
– Redirection
• No traditional installation
• Streaming or deployed

8. CDH Benefits
• Decreased application packaging time
• Decreased testing time
• Faster application deployment
– Deployed to new workstations
– Patching/updates
• Reduction in help desk calls
• Improved security
– Isolation from underlying OS
– Local Administrator
• Run incompatible applications side-by-side
• Simplified operating system migrations

9. CDH Business Case
• 31% less time for application creation
• 20% reduction in deployment
• 29% less time managing and updating
• 18% less help desk / IT support

10. CDH Vendors
• VMware
• Microsoft
• Citrix
• Symantec
• Others
– Endeavours
– Novell
– Spoon
– Unidesk
– InstallFree

11. CDH VMware
• VMware overview
• Server virtualization
• Desktop virtualization
• Application virtualization
– ThinApp
– Acquisition of Thinstall
• Other products
– SRM, Capacity IQ, Chargeback, AppSpeed,
Configuration Manager, vCloud Director, Service
Manager, Zimbra

12. CDH VMware ThinApp
• Agentless
• No server infrastructure
• Deploy vs. Stream
• Thinreg
• AppLink
• AppSync
• Side-by-Side upgrade

13. CDH Microsoft
• Microsoft overview
• Server virtualization
• Desktop virtualization
• Application virtualization
– System Center
– Acquisition of SoftGrid
• Other products
– SCCM, SCOM, SCSM, DPM, VMM, Windows 7,
Windows Server 2008, RDS, SQL, RMS,
ForeFront, Office

14. CDH Microsoft App-V
• Kernel Mode
• Part of MDOP (EA)
• Distributed Server Infrastructure
• 64-Bit Applications
• Windows Services
• Feature Blocks
• Shared Cache
• SCCM Integration
• Dynamic Suite Composition

15. CDH ThinApp Components

16. CDH ThinApp Execution
• Block streaming into memory
• Starts and continues streaming
• Pages shared between
sessions

17. CDH ThinApp Demo

18. CDH App-V Components

19. CDH App-V Components

20. CDH App-V Demo

21. CDH App-V Execution

22. CDH ThinApp Setup Capture
• Prescan – Scan pristine station
• Installation – Install software and
configurations
• Postscan – Scan station for changes
• Configure – All project settings
• Build – Build the
ThinApp application
package from
project files

23. CDH App-V Sequencing
• Installation monitoring
• Reboot handling
• Application installation partition (Q:)
• Virtual File System
• Virtual Registry
• Primary Feature Block
• OSD and SPRJ

24. CDH App-V Demo

25. CDH ThinApp Package.ini
• Brains of the project
• Compression
• Isolation
• Build options
– MSI Parameters
– AppSync
– Sandbox name and path
– AppLinks
– Permitted Groups

26. CDH App-V OSD and SFT files

27. CDH App-V OSD and SFT files

28. ThinApp
CDH Compression & Isolation
• Compression Compression None Fast
– Fast Type
Size 448,616KB 257,373KB
– None
Compression 100% 57%
• Isolation ratio
– Merged Startup time 6 seconds 6 seconds
(first run)
– WriteCopy
Startup time 0.1 seconds 1 seconds
– Full (second run)
• Optimize Build time (first 3 minutes 19 minutes
build)
– Memory
Build time 2 minutes 1.2 minutes
– Disk (second build)

29. CDH App-V RTSP and Streaming
• ZLIB with 40%+ compression ratio
• MSI files
• RTSPS
– 20% – 30% slower than RTSP
• Both RTSP and RTSPS fail to native file
system

30. CDH ThinApp AppLink
• Linking dependent applications to main
app
• Optional and required
• Dependencies loaded into memory
– As listed in Package.ini
– Wildcard  loaded alphabetically

31. App-V Dynamic
CDH Suite Composition
• Application Virtualization Dynamic Suite
Composition Tool
– GUI interface to OSD

32. CDH ThinApp Updating
• Side-by-Side
– Adobe.dat
– Adobe.1
– Adobe.2
• AppSync
– HTTP/HTTPS or UNC
– Remotely update deployed applications
– Block level update
• Sbmerge
– Merge sandbox contents into project

33. CDH

34. CDH ThinApp Demo

35. CDH App-V Updating
• Adds additional package (SFT) to App-V
• Seamless upgrade on next launch

36. CDH ThinApp Converter
• Ability to convert MSI for
installation into ThinApp
package
• ThinAppConverter.ini

37. CDH ThinApp ThinDirect
• Web browser redirection
– Associate web pages with different browsers
• Internet Explorer 6
• ThinDirect.ini

38. CDH App-V Integration Points
• SCCM
• RDS
• Virtual Services

39. CDH ThinApp Editions
ThinApp Enterprise ThinApp Starter
ThinApp Packager Multi User License Single User License
ThinApp Client Multi Client License Single Client License
ThinApp Scripting
Windows 7 Support
IE 6 support
ReLink
ThinApp Converter
AppLink
AppSync
AD Integration
ThinDirect
MSI support

40. CDH Microsoft EA / MDOP

41. CDH ROI / TCO
• VMware ThinApp ROI/TCO Calculator
– http://roitco.vmware.com/ThinApp/
• Microsoft Integrated Virtualization ROI Tool
– https://roianalyst.alinean.com/microsoft/virtualization/

42. CDH Best Practice
• ThinApp Deployment Guide
– http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_ThinApp_Dep
loyment_Guide.pdf
• Best practices to use for sequencing in
Microsoft App-V
– http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932137/

43. CDH ThinApp Limitations
• No reporting
• Concurrent licensing
• Price
– Included with View Premier
• 16 and 32-Bit only. No 64-Bit

44. CDH App-V Limitations
• Complex infrastructure
• Cannot virtualize Internet Explorer
• DSC sequencing
• Need to maintain agent updates

45. CDH Upcoming Briefings
• Migrating to SharePoint 2010
– Wednesday, March 23rd – C/D/H Grand Rapids
– Thursday, March 24th – C/D/H Royal Oak
• Views from the UC Summit
– Wednesday, April 27th – C/D/H Grand Rapids
– Thursday, April 28th – C/D/H Royal Oak
• Office 365: The latest and greatest in cloud
– Wednesday, May 18th – C/D/H Grand Rapids
– Thursday, May 19th – C/D/H Royal Oak

46. CDH Thank You
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