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Drake University and Citrix Case Study | Drake University Taking High-End Graphics Beyond The Lab Adding NVIDIA GRID™ technology with Citrix XenApp virtual application delivery shortened GIS projects and enhanced student learning and engagement at Drake University. Drake University and Citrix Citrix.com 1 NVIDIA GRID technology brings Esri ArcGIS into the field, allowing students to capture and analyze data in real time without having to return to the campus. Drake University is a mid-sized private and Public Administration uses basic office university located in Des Moines, Iowa. Since applications and other tools (mainly financial its founding in 1881, the university has provided and statistical) that don’t require graphics an exceptional learning environment that acceleration. Second, Law School students prepares students for meaningful personal lives, engage clients for tax preparation and had professional accomplishments, and responsible to share a single desktop PC-a cumbersome global citizenship. The current student body arrangement that required clients to come includes more than 3,300 undergraduates to the campus with careful scheduling to pursuing over 70 majors, minors, and avoid conflicts. Third, the Office of Alumni concentrations. An additional 1,700 graduate and Development needs access to Windows 7 students are working toward more than 20 desktops for accessing call center and other graduate degrees offered through six colleges office applications. Finally, students enrolled in and schools. GIS and field ecology classes need access to Esri ArcGIS, which requires graphics Challenge acceleration in order to function properly. Like most colleges, Drake University includes “I use ArcGIS in two primary ways,” explained several large computer labs equipped with Keith Summerville, Professor of Environmental traditional desktop PCs. The increasing need Science and Associate Dean of the College for access to computing resources required of Arts and Sciences at Drake. “First, it is the ever-larger spaces for labs, and the additional primary teaching tool for a yearlong course in computers required increased IT support for GIS. Second, it is an important component of maintenance and upgrades. Further, the existing our field ecology courses and research. ArcGIS labs were inflexible; they were only open during requires large amounts of storage, processing, certain hours, and students had to be in one of and graphics resources. Students are used to those labs in order to access the applications almost instantaneous responses on their and data needed to complete their assignments personal devices, but our individual and research projects. Meanwhile, current workstations could take several minutes to IT trends are moving toward increasingly return results. Further, a typical project entailed flexible remote Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) gathering data in the field and then returning access, and virtualized application and desktop to the campus to input and analyze that data. deployments are becoming more common as IT The elapsed time between my introductory departments respond to these demands. lecture and having final results could be days or even weeks. That drives down both student “The whole idea behind the application and engagement and retention. Virtualization desktop virtualization project at Drake held out the promise of being able to gather University was to give our students the and process data directly in the field, thus flexibility to access applications and data from shortening project life cycles.” any location on any device,” said Chris Mielke, ISS Network Systems Lead at Drake University. “Our initial virtualization tests revealed that “Over the long term, we may see some significant we could adequately support the needs savings from being able to reduce the number of the business, law, and Office of Alumni of labs and computers that we need to buy or and Development users,” Mielke continued. refresh, but providing BYOD support was our “However, we could not get ArcGIS to work immediate objective.” without graphics acceleration. During our testing, even one or two users running ArcGIS Four distinct user groups were identified could bring the server to a standstill. We needed as candidates for the initial virtualization to find a way to greatly improve performance in deployment: First, the College of Business this area.” Citrix.com | Case Study | Drake University | Taking High-End Graphics beyond the lab 2 “The whole idea behind the At a Glance CUSTOMER PROFILE Company: Drake University application and desktop Industry: Education Location: Des Moines, Iowa virtualization project at Drake Size: Approximately 5,000 students University was to give our Summary • Leading private university in Des Moines, Iowa, with a total enrollment of about 5,000 students the flexibility to students. • Saw the need to adopt BYOD support to increase flexibility for students and faculty. access applications and data • Adopted a virtualized platform based on NVIDIA GRID technology running on the from any location on any proven Citrix platform. • Students have unprecedented flexibility and performance with true anytime, anywhere device. Over the long term, access. • Planning to double the number of users from 100 to 200 in the near future, with additional we may see some significant expansion being researched. savings from being able to Software Hypervisor: Citrix XenServer reduce the number of labs Desktop and Application Remoting: Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp Key Applications: Esri ArcGIS, plus and computers that we various office, financial, statistics, and need to buy or refresh, but tax applications. Hardware providing BYOD support was NVIDIA GRID Boards: K2 Servers: Dell PowerEdge R720 Clients: Various desktop, laptop, and mobile our immediate objective.” devices Chris Mielke | ISS Network Systems Lead | Drake University Citrix.com | Case Study | Drake University | Taking High-End Graphics beyond the lab 3 Solution “The fact that most of the professors needed application access without caring too much Drake University kicked off the application and about the desktop made XenApp a natural desktop virtualization project by assembling choice, because XenApp supports NVIDIA a team of project sponsors who would be GRID™ vGPU™ technology that allows a single responsible for promoting virtualization across physical GPU to support multiple users, unlike the campus. A technical committee made up a traditional graphics-enabled virtual desktop of system administrators from the Law School, deployment that uses a 1:1 user to GPU ratio. College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business This level of flexibility would allow Drake to and Public Administration, and the library was deliver the graphics acceleration needed by tasked with researching, building out, and their students while simultaneously allowing deploying the virtual infrastructure. the other user groups to access their virtual applications and desktops.” After researching various options, the technical committee decided to proceed with “We loaned Drake a GRID K2 card to use for a virtualization solution that would leverage testing purposes without having to completely the Citrix platform consisting of the XenServer buy into the technology,” added Dana Steinlage, hypervisor, with XenApp and XenDesktop Senior Account Manager at Choice Solutions. providing the remote application and desktop “Adding the GRID vGPU support gave students delivery. They then reached out to virtualization the performance they needed, and the solutions provider Choice Solutions, which university went ahead with the deployment.” specializes in solving complex virtualization challenges. The virtualization deployment consists of two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with 256GB of “We visited the university to assess their needs RAM and a single NVIDIA GRID K2 card per and see how best to implement virtualization server. Each server includes local solid state to meet those needs,” said Randy Kearn, drives for write caching, with the applications Senior Solutions Architect at Choice Solutions. and data located on external EMC VNX storage. “They had already decided to use the Citrix Each of the four NVIDIA GRID GPUs is assigned platform because it can tailor application and/ to a separate XenApp server that serves up to or desktop delivery to suit a wide range of use five users for a total of 20 GPU-enabled virtual cases. We’ve had some experience with NVIDIA environments available to the students running GRID technology and knew that it would make ArcGIS. The business and law students access a perfect fit for Drake because XenServer is virtual applications delivered by XenApp, while currently the only platform that loads the the Office of Alumni and Development uses NVIDIA drivers directly into the hypervisor and pooled virtual Windows 7 desktops provided gives virtual machines direct access to the by XenDesktop. Graphics acceleration is not physical GPUs. required for these groups. Citrix.com | Case Study | Drake University | Taking High-End Graphics beyond the lab 4 “We had some challenges with getting the "We visited the university to assess applications to run and figuring out where to store everything because of the steep learning curve faced by the technology committee,” said their needs and see how best to Mielke. “There was also some reluctance on the part of our faculty and students, particularly implement virtualization to meet after the initial trials with ArcGIS failed for lack of GPU support. We also ran into some problems
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