Citrix Synergy 2014 - Syn228 What's new in Citrix CloudPlatform

1. What’s New in Citrix CloudPlatform
Ken Lee
Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Platforms Group
Manan Shah
Principal Product Manager, Citrix CloudPlatform

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Citrix Products discussed
– Citrix CloudPlatform
– Citrix XenDesktop
Key Takeaways
– Both Enterprises and Service Providers are rapidly moving desktop & data center
workloads to the Cloud to dramatically reduce costs and increase agility
– Enterprise IT and Service Providers need your help, today, to deliver Desktops,
Apps and Infrastructure as-a-Service on Citrix CloudPlatform environments
– Start your journey towards IT-as-a-Service today. Contact your local Citrix sales
representatives.
Session Summary

4. Market Reality of Cloud Computing

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Challenges Today
Operational complexity
To scale, admins required to be
experts in network, storage,
compute in addition to desktop
virtualization
First 1000 users
Next 2000 users
Unpredictable Demand
Provisioning based on future
demand projections are often
inaccurate, leading to delayed
time to value
Proj.
Demand
Actual
Demand
Upfront CAPEX
Each modular building block
requires new capital expenditures
with step-function cost increase
$/user
# of users
Complexity. Unpredictability. Expensive.

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[Source: Gartner, 2013]
• Virtualization has prepared
Enterprise IT workloads to
be cloud-ready
• Private clouds are mainly
hosting datacenter
workloads but rapidly adding
desktop and collaboration
apps
• Most Enterprises (IT and
LOB) are considering
leveraging, or are already
consuming, Public Cloud
services, e.g. Hybrid Cloud
Computing
• Future of Enterprise IT is
projected to be “Hybrid IT”
Key Trends in Cloud Computing

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Hybrid Cloud Computing
Desktops &
Applications
Data Center
Infrastructure
Virtualization Platform
Enhanced Virtualization
Cloud
Management
Platform
Moving From Virtualization to Cloud Computing
Enabling the Journey from Enhanced Virtualization to Hybrid Clouds
Off-Premise
Desktops &
Applications
Data Center
Infrastructure
On-Premise

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What is Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
• Enable IT organizations to build, and manage, private-public-hybrid cloud environments
• Adds self-service access, full automation and resource usage tracking
Service
Management
Service
Optimization
• Orchestration
• Policy management & optimization
• Abstraction layer to external service provider & resource management tier
• Federation
Access
Management
• Self-service request interface
• Programmable interface
• Subscriber management
• Identity and access management
• Vendor management
• Service catalog
• Service model
• Service level management
• Availability & performance management
• Demand & capacity management
• Chargeback/showback, metering, billing
• Service provisioning, configuration management

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Citrix CMP Solution
Citrix CloudPlatform
Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager
Citrix CloudPlatform
Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager
Citrix Cloud Management Platform Solution
Cloud Management
Platform
Service Optimization
(resource management, external service
providers)
Service Management
(service catalog, provisioning,
showback/chargeback)
Access Management
(self-service request portal)

10. Citrix Cloud Platforms Products & Solutions

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Citrix Cloud Platform Products
Citrix Cloud Platform Products
Cloud Business
Management
Citrix CloudPortal
Business Manager
Cloud Infrastructure
Orchestration
Citrix CloudPlatform
Server
Virtualization
Citrix XenServer
Tier 1 App
Workloads
NFV/Telco
Workloads
Cloud-Native
Workloads
Datacenter
Workloads
Dev/Test
Workloads
Desktop/App
Workloads
Virtualized
Data Center
Enterprise IT
Cloud
NFV/Telco
Cloud
Public
Cloud

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

13. New Solution:
Citrix XenDesktop Cloud Provisioning with
CloudPlatform

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XenDesktop Cloud Provisioning w/
CloudPlatform
Desktop Virtualization
7.5
Application Virtualization
7.5
Hypervisor Layer
Desktop Virtualization
XDCCP
Lighthouse
Program
Virtualized Desktops are Moving to Clouds
Enabling the Journey from Desktop Virtualization to Desktop Cloud
Desktop Virtualization
7.5
Application Virtualization
7.5
Off-PremiseOn-Premise

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What is Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp Cloud Provisioning
Desktop Virtualization
7.5
Application Virtualization
7.5
Off-PremiseOn-Premise
• Enable Cloud DaaS-based XenDesktop/XenApp
Solution
- Built on the latest releases of Citrix
XenDesktop/XenApp (XD/XA) v7.5 and Citrix
CloudPlatform (CCP) v4.2.1.4/v4.3
- XD/XA 7.5 workloads can be natively provisioned into
CCP on or off premises
• Key Business Benefits
- On-premise: Lower upfront CAPEX, easier scaling,
more efficient and OPEX-based model
- Off-premise: Elastic, no infrastructure to manage
• Key Technical Benefits
- XD-specific workload monitoring in CCP
- App orchestration in XD
- No new consoles or additional training needed
Cloud-Enabled, Simplified, Enhanced Desktop & Application Delivery

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Advanced Use Cases Standard Use Cases
Dedicate XD/XA
deployments to specific
group or use case
XD/XA deployments across
two availability zones for
higher availability
Multiple XD/XA
deployments on single
private cloud
Customer-specific use
cases & deployments
Multi-tenant mgmt across
datacenters while preserving
per-tenant dedicated resources
HA leveraging multiple
datacenters for pooled desktops
Billing and chargeback across
multiple XD farms
Leverage less expensive local
storage for pooled desktops
and get scaled-out architecture
Self-Service Desktops for
dev/test use cases needing
custom desktop configurations
Separation of desktop and
infrastructure admin tasks
XenDesktop/XenApp Cloud Provisioning with CloudPlatform
Key Use Cases for XenDesktop/XenApp Cloud Provisioning

17. Citrix CloudPlatform

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Mature Complete Product
Customer-proven with over 250+ global production cloud
deployments
Complete data center and desktop infrastructure
orchestration, provisioning and management
Enables organizations to deliver cloud-native services in
days, not weeks or months
Supports both traditional enterprise and cloud-native
workloads
Integrated turnkey solution
Powered by Apache CloudStack

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Availability and Security
Service Management (Billing, Metering, Accounts, etc.)
Resource Management
Servers Storage Network
Dynamic Workload Management
Backup LB HA Monitoring
User Interface Developer API
Amazon
Image Libraries
Application Catalog
Custom Templates
Operating System ISOs
IntegrationAPI
Operation,Administration,
MaintenanceandProvisioning
Administrator End User Console CloudPlatform Custom
Citrix CloudPlatform Product Architecture
Citrix CloudPlatform

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Clusters & Pods
• Hypervisor pools
• Isolate server farms and storage
Availability Zones & Regions
• Separate failure domains
• Public and private networks
• NW services: LB, FW, VPN, etc.
…
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Pod 1
TOR Switches
Aggr. Switch
Core Router
NetScaler Secondary Storage
Primary
Storage
Storage NW Guest NW
…
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Pod 2
Primary
Storage
Storage NW Guest NW
Aggr. Switch
CloudPlatform is Architected to Scale

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Open, flexible architecture
Leverage Existing Investments | No Vendor Lock | Choose Best of Breed
Compute
XenServer VMware KVMHyper-V Bare metal
Hypervisor
Storage
Local Disk iSCSI NFSFibre Channel Swift
Block & Object
Network
Network Type Isolation LBFirewall VPN
Network & Network Services

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Compute Orchestration
Compute
Storage
Network
Non-disruptive Operations
Live Migrations, Dynamic Scaling
Deliver High Availability for Workloads
VM HA, Anti-Affinity
Higher VM Density and Lower TCO
Overprovisioning resources
Tiered Service Offerings
Desktops with GPU support
XenServer

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Compute
Storage
Network
Non-disruptive Operations
Live Storage migrations
Open and Flexible
Standard protocols, Plug-in frameworks
Ensure Business Continuity
Snapshots, Backups
Tiered Services
Disk offerings
Delivers Scale
Primary storage and Secondary Storage
Storage Orchestration

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Network Orchestration
Compute
Storage
Network
Multi-tenancy with isolation
VLANs, Security Groups
Comprehensive Networking
Layer 2, Layer 3, Virtual Private Clouds
Network Services Out-of-box
DNS, DHCP, Load balancer, Firewall, VPN
External Device Support
NetScaler, Cisco, Juniper, VMware

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Virtual Private Cloud & nTier Applications
Benefits
• Deploy & manage applications
• Flexible access to VPC
Features
• Create multiple tiers (networks)
and route traffic among them
• Configure firewall rules (ACLs)
• LB support for all tiers
• Anti-affinity rules
• External device support
• S2S VPNs & Private GWs
Web
App
DB
Router
DC1
DC2
DC3
DC4
DC5
DC6
Citrix
VLAN 1
VLAN 2
VLAN 3
S2S VPN
Private
GW
Virtual Private Cloud

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NetScaler Integration
L2 Switch
L3 Switch
(zone-level)
L2 SwitchPod 1 Pod N
Host 1
Host N
Host 1
Host N
Zone Public Network
Private Network
ELB across all products in
NetScaler family
Deploy side-by-side or in-
line with firewalls
AutoScale services in the
Cloud
Load balance across
zones in the Cloud using
GSLB

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Management Server is stateless
Single Management Server per
5,000 hosts
Deploy using RHEL 5.4 + or
CentOS 5.4 +
MySQL database as data store
Management server and database
support clustering for redundancy
and scale
Back Up
DB
Management
Server
MySQL
DB
Replication
Management
Server
Load
Balancer
Infrastructure
Resources
Citrix CloudPlatform Management Server

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Primary Storage
• Cluster level storage for VMs
• Can have multiple primary storage per cluster
• Local for high performance
• Connected directly to hosts
• NFS, iSCSI, FC and Local
Secondary Storage
• Zone level storage for template, ISOs and
snapshots
• Region level object storage repository
• NFS or AWS S3 API compatible Object Storage
via CloudPlatform System VM
Templates and ISOs
• Imported into Citrix CloudPlatform
• Can be private or public
Secondary Storage
Pod
Cluster
Host
Host
Primary Storage
Template
Storage and Templates

29. What’s New in Citrix CloudPlatform 4.3

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Compute
VM:
Start/Stop/Reboot/Destroy
Host-to-Host manual live
migration
Console access
Upload/Download of
Volumes/Templates/ISOs
Host Tags
Networking
Advanced: VLANs
Isolated and Shared
Networks
All Network Services
Multiple NICs
Storage
Primary: SMB, Local Disk
Root and Data Volumes
Add/Delete/Attach/Detach
Volumes
Secondary: SMB
Storage Tags
Hyper-V – New Hypervisor Support in CloudPlatform

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Custom Compute Offering with Dynamic Scaling
Flexible compute offering allows users to
specify compute parameters at VM creation
time
Admins can define Compute Offering with
‘Custom’ option
Can dynamically scale offering
From Custom to Non-custom offering, and
From Non-custom to Custom offering

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VPN Enhancements for VPC
Remote Access VPN
• Remove users can connect to VPC from Windows/Linux/MAC/iOS native VPN
Clients using L2TP-over-IPSec
• VPC’s Network ACLs are used control which VMs the remote client can access
Site – Site VPN for VPCs
• Enables customers to deploy applications across multiple DCs
• Supports IPSec VPNs between VPCs as well as VPC and Remote DC

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Virtual Router Rolling Upgrades
Minimizes service interruption to users during upgrades
Significantly reduces the application maintenance windows
Gives admin the control over the upgrade sequence of the Virtual Routers
- By Infrastructure hierarchy: by cluster, by pod, by zone
- By Administrative hierarchy: by tenant/domain

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Monitoring Services in Virtual Router
Increased availability of Network Services with Virtual Router monitoring
Service daemons in Virtual Router are monitored and restarted on failures
• DHCP, DNS, Load balancer Services are monitored when enabled in the Network Offering
• SSH, Webserver daemons on VR are monitored by default regardless of offering
Actions are logged for ease of admin access

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Management Server Database High Availability
Support high availability for the DB in a
single Master/Slave cluster setup
Using MySQL two-way replication
between two DB servers
Static strategy sends all reads/writes to a
single DB instead of load balancing
Allows Management Servers to
seamlessly transition to a backup DB on
DB access failures

36. Partner Integrations

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Cisco UCS integration Architecture
Feature
• Admins can use UCS blades as
hardware resource pool
• Pre-defined UCS profiles can be
driven from CloudPlatform UI
• Discover UCS blades and profiles
and add them to CloudPlatform’s
resource pool
Benefit
• Rapid provisioning of guest OS/bare
metal onto UCS from a single
console
• Agility through streamlined expansion
of cloud resources
Things to Know
• Leverages programmability of UCS
Converged Infrastructure with
CloudPlatform’s Orchestration

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Public
Network/Internet
Guest Virtual Network (Isolated/Shared)
VLAN 100
DHCP,
DNS
10.1.1.1
Guest VM 1
10.1.1.3
Guest VM 2
10.1.1.4
Guest VM 3
10.1.1.5
Guest VM 4
CS
Virtual
Router
NetScaler
Load
Balancer
Cisco
ASA100v
Firewall
F5
BIGIP
Juniper SRX
Firewall
Features
• Support for Isolated, Shared networks
only
• Supports for Source NAT, Static NAT,
Port Forwarding, Firewall
Benefits
• Best of breed external FW
N1K
DVS
Cisco ASA1000v as a Firewall

39. Summary

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Citrix Products discussed
– Citrix CloudPlatform
– Citrix XenDesktop
Key Takeaways
– Both Enterprises and Service Providers are rapidly moving desktop & data center
workloads to the Cloud to dramatically reduce costs and increase agility
– Enterprise IT and Service Providers need your help, today, to deliver Desktops,
Apps and Infrastructure as-a-Service on Citrix CloudPlatform environments
– Start your journey towards IT-as-a-Service today. Contact your local Citrix sales
representatives.
Session Summary

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Date Time Session Title Speaker(s) Location
5/6
3:00pm SYN228 What’s New in Citrix CloudPlatform Manan Shah, Ken Lee 304C
3:00pm SYN123 The Software Defined Data Center – Myth vs. Real World
Sameer Dholakia, Nexenta: Tarkan Maner
Wipro: Andrey Zhulenev; Brian Madden
304A
5:00pm SYN110 Transforming the IT Landscape with Cloud Computing Krishna Subramanian 304A
5:00pm SYN226
Leveraging public cloud infrastructure to flex and grow XenApp and XenDesktop
deployments
Orestes Melgarejo, Josh Fleming, Kedar Poduri Ballroom B
5/7
1:30pm SYN114 Field Report: SAP’s Implementation of Private Clouds in Vertical Industries (SAP) Christian Ferber, Priya Ketkar, SAP: Markus Heib 304C
2:30pm SYN231 Top 10 Reasons Why Cloud Implementations Fail Kish Yerrapragada 304C
3:30pm SYN230 Building successful clouds based on Citrix Consulting methodology Priya Ketkar, Kish Yerrapragada 304C
4:30pm SYN232 Building a Standardized Cloud Architecture and Self-Service Portal with Ease (NetApp) NetApp: David La Motta 304C
5/8
9:30am SYN227
Architecting Your Private Cloud Infrastructure for Speed & Agility with CloudPlatform
Solutions (SSI)
Tom Davies, Marc Trouard-Riolle
SSI: Rich Wein, Sean Dennin
Ballroom A
10:30am SYN111
From the Field: Autodesk’s Journey Towards Private Cloud Computing with Citrix
CloudPlatform (Autodesk)
Shannon Williams, Autodesk: Jason Smathers Ballroom D
11:30am SYN229 What’s New in Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager Jie Feng, Kailas Jawadekar 304C
2:30pm SYN226
Leveraging public cloud infrastructure to flex and grow XenApp and XenDesktop
deployments
Orestes Melgarejo, Josh Fleming, Kedar Poduri Ballroom B
2:30pm SYN122 Moving Australian National Research into the Cloud (Univ. of Melbourne) UoM: Nick Golovachenko 304C
3:30pm SYN263 What's New in Citrix XenServer: Graphics Performance, Scalability and More! David Cottingham, Ken Lee 304A
4:30pm SYN235 Supporting Graphical Software in a Cloud Environment (Univ. of Sao Paolo) USP: Cyrano Rizzo 304A
Please Attend Additional Cloud Platform Sessions

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