Le Moyne university use application virtualization to provide student computer bubbles to their college students. The benefits include - reducing overall IT expenditure - reducing VDI sprawl - improving student experience Find out more at http://www.software2inc.com/news/15/64/Le-Moyne-College-NY-aims-to-reduce-VDI-sprawl-and-create-student-computing-bubbles.html

1. Solving 2 VDI Challenges
with Application Jukebox
Vendor: Software2

2. Guest Speaker
Phil Spitze
● Photographer and Photography Instructor
● Senior System Admin by day
● 15+ years in IT
● 7+ years as Sys Admin
● Focus on system design and implementation

4. A Story About VDI
● About Le Moyne’s computing environment
● All in on VDI
● Problem #1) Gold Image Bloat
● Problem #2) VDI Pool Sprawl
● How we found Application Jukebox (AJ)
● Scense, AJ, Software2
● What AJ enabled us to accomplish

5. About Le Moyne’s Computing Environment
● Private Jesuit College in Syracuse, NY
● 3400 FTE Students
● 520 FTE Employees
● 18 Cisco UCS Blades
● 3 Cisco UCS Chassis
● Dell Equallogic, Nexsan iSCSI SAN Storage
● Partridge in a pear tree?

6. Nope. We’re Dolphins!

7. About Le Moyne’s Computing Environment
Investment costs?
$1.5M - 5 years
$225K - VMware Licenses (current pricing)

8. About Le Moyne’s Computing Environment
Equivalent to
just over 3000
HP Desktops!

9. About Le Moyne’s Computing Environment
What do we run on all that shiny gear?
● 100 Win 2008R2 and Linux servers
● Up to 700 VDI Desktops
Plus, a physical fleet of:
● 350 VDI Thick Clients
● 600 Standard Desktops

10. Original Plan: All In On VDI
● VDI would replace all physical desktops
● Floating, non-persistent pools for student
labs and classrooms
● Dedicated, Persistent pools for employees
● Move to cheaper Thin client hardware in
place of traditional desktops

11. VDI Technology
Gold Image =
-Virtual HW
-OS
-AV
-Local Apps
Pool of Linked
Clones
ThinApps

12. All In On VDI - Year 1
● 1 Gold Image
● 100 Installed Apps
● 100 ThinApps
● 300 VDI Desktops
● 1 Pool

13. VDI Sprawl - Year 2
● 2 Gold Images
● 100 Installed Apps
● 200 ThinApps
● 400 VDI Desktops
● 4 Pools
○ Students: On Campus, Off Campus
○ Employees: On Campus, Off Campus

14. Gold Image Bloat and VDI Sprawl
Professor Bob would like Maple
● Needs 2 vCPUs > New Gold Image
> New VDI Pool
Professor Jane requests MS Project
● Limited License > New Gold Image
> New VDI Pool

15. Gold Image Bloat and VDI Sprawl
Comm. Adjunct wants entire Adobe Suite
● Local Install > Large User Profiles
> Long login times
Professor wants to teach SPSS to outside
clients using a single guest account
● Multiple logons > New VDI Pool

16. Year 3
● 9 Gold Images
● 150 Installed Apps
● 200 ThinApps
● 650 VDI Desktops
● 11 Pools
○ Students, Employees, On Campus, Off Campus,
Specific Classes, Labs, Multiple Logins
● (But only 200 concurrent users!)

17. “There has to be
a better way!”

19. What We Wanted
“Computing Bubbles”
● A way to provision software around each
user intelligently and on-demand.
● A way to properly size our VDI environment
to reduce VMware licensing costs.
● A way to empower users to customize the
look and feel of their desktop (even with
VDI.)

20. How We Found AJ
● Started by trying to solve user profile bloat
and slow login times
● “UEM Smackdown Whitepaper” from PQR
● Scense Workspace Management
● Software2 (Global Distributor of Scense,
Application Jukebox, and Nexthink)

21. Software2
● Conducted Scense Demos
● POC for XP to Win7 migration (physical
fleet)
“By the way, can we show
you Application Jukebox?”

22. Well, that turned our heads...

23. Priority Switch
Even though we originally were seeking a UEM
solution, AJ was so good that we fully funded it
almost immediately.
Scense, the UEM solution from Software2 will
be fully funded for 2016.

24. What is AJ?
Application Jukebox
● Technology that separates the application
layer from the OS through virtualization.
● Handles drivers, services, Registry, etc.
● Enables isolation from the OS, or integration
with the OS.
● 100% of Windows applications

25. What is AJ?
● Gives application admins complete visibility
into all components of a piece of software.
● Presented as a “software store” website akin
to the iOS and Android App Stores.
● Empowers end users to self-install (launch)
any software available to them.
● Administrators can control software
availability via AD Security Group.

27. AJ + VDI - Going into Year 4
● 5 Gold Images
● 125 Installed Apps
● 200 ThinApps
● 30 AJ Apps
● 500 VDI Desktops
● 8 Pools
○ Students, Employees, On Campus, Off Campus,
Specific Classes, Labs, Multiple Logins
● Fewer VMware Licenses

28. AJ + VDI - Plans for Year 5
● 1 Gold Image
● 12 Installed Apps
● 150 AJ Apps
● 300 VDI Desktops
● 3 Pools
○ On Campus, Off Campus, Multiple Logins
● Even Fewer VMware Licenses

29. AJ Across Campus
● VDI
● Physical Desktops
● Pilot BYOD
● Pilot Amazon Workspaces
● Pair with Scense for on-demand,
personalized desktops - creating our
“Computing Bubbles”

30. AJ Benefits for Le Moyne
Virtual and Physical Hardware
(VMware and SCCM)
OS
(VMware and SCCM)
User Environment
(Scense)
Applications
(Application Jukebox)
Just-in-Time
- not -
Just-in-Case

31. AJ Benefits for Le Moyne
● One instance of each application to maintain
and patch, without touching the Gold Images
● Self-service user installs - no more calls to
Service Desk for admin credentials
● Plain vanilla base images (SCCM and VDI)
● Easy hardware replacements, no app
installs, configs, or data transfers

32. What About Other Products?
Technology/Cost Limitations
● Based on snapshot technology
● Limits on number of appsets
● 5x the AJ cost
● Large backend infrastructure requirement
Just out from PQR:
“Application Virtualization Smackdown”

33. In a Nutshell...
“For a small investment, Application
Jukebox has enabled us to finally enjoy
many, if not all, of the benefits originally
sold to us regarding VDI.”

34. Demo and Questions
● Quick Demo by Software2
● AJ Questions?
● VDI Questions?
● Photography Questions?