The document provides an overview of Citrix's portfolio updates, including support for Windows Server 2016 and enhancements in various services such as XenApp, XenDesktop, and Citrix Cloud. Key features highlighted include universal app publishing, improved telemetry, and new integrations with app and desktop services. Additionally, the document discusses infrastructure improvements and advancements in security measures, including memory introspection technology.

1. Citrix Portfolio Updates
Sebastian Kisiel
Senior Systems Engineer, Central Eastern Europe,
Citrix Systems Poland

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XenApp & XenDesktop 7.11
Pronounced “Seven-Eleven”

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Day 1 support for Windows Server 2016
• Apps, desktops, and infrastructure
• Requires Desktop Experience version
– Available on the Long Term Service Branch
(LTSB)
• 2016 Apps and Desktops
– 7.11 Server VDA
• 2016 Infrastructure
– Controller
– Studio
– Director
– StoreFront
– Provisioning Services
– Hyper-V through SCVMM 2016
– License Server (new release)
– SCOM Management Packs (new release)
– AppDNA (new release)
– Session Recording (new release)

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Delivery Group 1 Delivery Group 2 Delivery Group 3 Delivery Group 4
Office Yes Yes Yes Yes
ShareFile Outlook Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes
GoToMeeting Outlook Plugin Yes Yes
Finance Excel Plugin Yes Yes
App-V Isolation Group Support
Scenario with automatic/explicit designations
Isolation Group 1
Explicit Automatic Explicit Explicit
- 4 App-V Sequences
- 1 Isolation Group
- Assignment via
Automatic or Explicit
Office
ShareFile
Plugin
Finance Excel
Plugin
GoToMeeting
Plugin

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SCVMM support for AppDisks
• Leverage the Hyper-V platform
+
Citrix AppDisk

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– Deliver Universal Apps seamlessly without the need for a desktop session
– Universal Apps are published through the app publishing wizard in Citrix
Studio
Deliver new Universal Apps to any device
• Publishing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps on Server 2016 and
Windows 10

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Embracing the latest Azure platform
• VM provisioning with Machine Creation Services (MCS) on Azure Resource
Manager (ARM)

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Citrix Director enhancements
Resource Utilization Reporting Additional Alert Conditions Large Scale Export

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Profile Management - Protection

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Simplified management for dedicated VDI
• Provisioning full clones with Machine Creation Services
Base VM Image Dedicated Machine
Catalog with Independent
Disks

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• Allows users to easily unlock their accounts or reset their password
• Fully integrated with StoreFront for a seamless experience
Web-based self-service password reset
• Save time and money by keeping users productive

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Telemetry features
Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)
Call Home
License Management Service (LMS)

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North America User
Zone Preferences
AppX Data
AppXWin10 Browser App
User Profile
Win10 Browser App
User Profile
NorthAmericaZone
EuropeZone
Gateway Gateway

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North America User
Zone Preferences
AppX Data
AppXWin10 Browser App
User Profile
Win10 Browser App
User Profile
NorthAmericaZone
EuropeZone
Gateway Gateway

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• Publish document files and web URLs through the PowerShell SDK
• Once published, content items are managed through Citrix Studio
Content publishing
Offer documents and URLs through StoreFront

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HDX enhancements
Elevating the user experience
Generic USB Redirection for Mass Storage Devices with Server Machines
Optimized Delivery for Sessions with Both Video and Text
Hardware Video Encoding with NVIDIA NVENC

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Additional releases
Linux VDA 1.4
App publishing (non-seamless)
Anonymous sessions
USB redirection
Policy management
NVIDIA vGPU Support

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Unified app/desktop
cloud-enabled platform
(FMA)
1st GPU support
PVS write cache
Hybrid cloud
provisioning
Skype for Mac/Win/Linux
Acquire Framehawk
Prelaunch, linger, anon logon
Next Gen Thinwire
HDX Framehawk GA
Faster SmartCard logon
FIPS & Common Criteria
Clipboard policies
X1 Mouse
Session recording
Watermarking (Labs)
Jailbreak detection
Linux GA and 2.0
Windows 10 support Day 1
Supportability tools
Automated migration service
DesktopPlayer (Mac/Win)
Multi-geo management
Horizon migration service
Advanced alerting
Workspace Cloud GA
Browser Apps Service (Labs)
AppDNA Express (Labs)
2013 2014 2015
Download Today
Federated Authentication
MCS I/O Optimizations
Intel Iris Pro Graphics
Nutanix MCS provisioning
Enhanced Director reporting
Advanced printing capabilities
Secure Browser
Long Term Service Release
StoreFront 3.5
AppDisk
AppDNA for App Disk
App-V Integration
Enhanced App Publishing
Session Recording for VDI
Framehawk & HDX 3D Pro
2016
Windows Server 2016
Azure Resource Manager
Zone Preference
App-V Isolation Groups
Content publishing
Linux applications
7.11

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XenServer 7.0

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Intel GVT-g
• Intel’s GPU virtualisation technology
• No additional graphics card needed
• Leverages Intel’s on-chipset Iris pro graphics
– on Broadwell and Haswell processors equipped with the C226 chipset
• Uses a standard Intel GPU driver within the VM
• Each CPU can support up to seven virtual GPUs
• Developed by Intel on xen

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128 vGPUs per Host
With NVIDIA M6/60
Photo by nvidia.corporation, CC-by-NC-ND-licensed

23. vGPU for Linux
Photo by nvidia.corporation, CC-by-NC-ND-licensed;
Penguin by Larry Ewing.

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Installing PV Tools has always been a pain

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XenServer Tools: Windows Update will be used
• New VMs will use Windows Update by default (still need
“full” guest agent
• XenServer 7 will use a Wizard to get VMs up to date
• No-touch tool/driver updates after that

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Health Check
Automating the existing Server Status Report process

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4 GB Logs
18 GB
Backup
Local SR
18 GB
Primary
0.5GBUEFI
1GBSwap
Bigger Control Domain
(Return of) Mixed Pools
Offline migration & <3s
migrations

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Support for SMB
Server Message Block

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RAM per Host
Host
...
XS 6.5
XS 7.0 5 TB
1 TB
1.5 TB
192 GB
...
RAM per VM
XS 6.5
XS 7.0
Increased Configuration Limits
...
pCPUs per Host
XS 6.5
XS 7.0 288
160
32
16
...
vCPUs per VM
XS 6.5
XS 7.0
...
VBDs per Host
XS 6.5
XS 7.0 4096
2048
255
16
...
VBDs per VM
XS 6.5
XS 7.0

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Single-stream storage IOPS
Reason for improvement:
– Polling in tapdisk3
+30%Measurements on average SSD
Aggregate storage IOPS
Reason for improvement:
– Increased number of dom0 vCPUs Measurements on average SSD
+50%
Aggregate intrahost network throughput
Reasons for improvement:
– Grant-table locking scalability
– Increased number of dom0 vCPUs
Measurements on Dell R730
+160%
Networking and Storage throughput improvements
XS 6.5
XS 7.0 74Gb/s
28Gb/s
XS 6.5
XS 7.0 66,000
43,000
XS 6.5
XS 7.0 8,000
6,000

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X-ray Guard Memory Introspection *Tech Preview
• Memory Introspection - Next generation anti-virus protection
• No agent runs in the VM instead
memory is monitored via Xen
Xen
Privileged
Unprivileged
OperatingSystem
Device Drivers
Kernel
Security Appliance
(Using Xen’s X-ray Guard API)
Guest Memory
X-ray Guard

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X-ray Guard Memory Introspection *Tech Preview
• Memory Introspection - Next generation anti-virus protection
• No agent runs in the VM instead
memory is monitored via Xen
• Malicious memory activity blocked
Xen
Privileged
Unprivileged
OperatingSystem
Device Drivers
Kernel
Security Appliance
(Using Xen’s X-ray Guard API)
Guest Memory
X-ray Guard

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X-ray Guard Memory Introspection *Tech Preview
• Memory Introspection - Next generation anti-virus protection
• No agent runs in the VM instead
memory is monitored via Xen
• Malicious memory activity blocked
• Clean up tools injected directly into
the VM
• Immune to traditional attack
vectors (no agent to attack)
• Industry-first for desktops and applications
• Only on XenServer
Xen
Privileged
Unprivileged
OperatingSystem
Device Drivers
Kernel
Security Appliance
(Using Xen’s X-ray Guard API)
Guest Memory
X-ray Guard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Xievs_fGE

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Many more features!
Docker Container Management for Windows OS
Improved Conversion Manager for VMware
vSphere VMs
UEFI host boot
Improved Active Directory Scalability
Welcome TLS 1.2
Hypervisor upgrade to Xen 4.5
Dom0 moves to CentOS 7.1
SSH consoles to Dom0 and Linux VMs
Additional Guests
NFS4 SRs

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Platform: Central Design and Control, Local Execution
Citrix Cloud - Control Center
XenApp & XenDesktop
Service
XenMobile Service ShareFile Lifecycle Manager
Cloud Connector
Data Center
Citrix Cloud - Service Platform
Customer /
Partner
architects &
operates
Citrix
architects &
operates
WorkspacePod
Cloud Connector
Public Cloud
Cloud Connector
SP Cloud
Cloud Connector
Apps and Desktops File Sync & SharingMobile App & Device Mgmt Design, Deploy, Manage

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Move Management Infrastructure to the Cloud
Workloads
Management
Public Clouds
Workloads
Management
Today: Management + workloads are disconnected islands of management & control
Private Cloud / On-Prem
Tomorrow: Cloud Management enables single unified hybrid system, allowing customers to take advantage of
cloud-scale economics AND leverage their existing investments

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Hypervisors
Active
Directory
NetScaler
Gateway
License
Server
Studio Director
SQL
Server
VDAs
Server
VDAs
Server
VDAs Server
VDAs
Server
VDAs
Desktop
VDAs
StoreFront/
Receiver for
Web
Delivery
Controllers
Customer/Partner
managed
XenApp and XenDesktop
Traditional Deployment

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SQL
StoreFront/
Receiver for
Web
Delivery
Controllers
Hypervisors
Active
Directory
NetScaler
Gateway Server
VDAs
Server
VDAs
Server
VDAs Server
VDAs
Server
VDAs
Desktop
VDAs
License
Server
Studio Director
Customer/Partner
managed
Citrix Cloud (operated
by Citrix)
XenApp and XenDesktop Service

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Active
Directory
NetScaler
Gateway
Exchange /
Storage
Zones
XenApp
XenDesktop
Customer/Partner
managed
Citrix Cloud (operated
by Citrix)
XenMobile Service
Citrix Cloud Connector
IdentityProxy
XMS

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Private CloudsHypervisors Public Clouds
Citrix Lifecycle Management
Target Products and Environments
Citrix Lifecycle Management

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Add Blueprint
from Catalog
to Library
Deploy
Blueprint
Manage
Deployment
Add Resource
Location
http://manage-docs.citrix.com/entries/83322315-Quick-Start-Create-a-XenDesktop-proof-of-
concept-deployment
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

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New Naming Scheme for Worx Apps: Citrix Secure Apps
Secure Hub Secure
Mail
Secure
Web
Secure
Notes
Secure
Tasks
Secure
Forms
Does not require a re-enroll or re-install of the apps

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1. Deploy a unified App Store
2. Enforce device encryption
3. Use microVPN for secure data communications
4. Apply Open-In policy for Office 365 mobile apps
5. Block saving of files to un-sanctioned storage
XenMobile
XenMobile and Office 365 integration

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