Enable Modern Work Styles with Microsoft VDI David De Backer Device and Desktop Solutions Specialist Empowering User and Device People-centric IT Management Access and Microsoft Information Virtual Protection Desktop Infrastructure Today’s challenges Users Devices Apps Data Users expect to be able to The explosion of devices is Deploying and managing Users need to be productive work in any location and eroding the standards-based applications across while maintaining have access to all their approach to corporate IT. platforms is difficult. compliance and reducing work resources. risk. People-centric IT Enable your end users Allow users to work on the devices of their choice and provide consistent access to corporate resources. Unify your environment Deliver a unified application and Users Devices Apps Data device management on- premises and in the cloud. Protect your data Help protect corporate Management. Access. Protection. information and manage risk. Why Microsoft VDI? Enable users to access Protect against loss corporate apps and and leaks of sensitive data from any corporate data device/any location Deliver great user experience Why Microsoft Centrally administer and VDI? manage desktops Balance user requirements with Save resources with Reduce time to deploy corporate compliance the flexible storage applications and options right to your updates environment VDI with Windows Server 2012 Powered by Windows Server 2012 Desktop Pooled Personal Firewall sessions VMs VMs 1 platform • 1 experience • 3 deployment choices Corporate Office Branch Office Home Public Location Choosing the Right VDI Architecture Sessions Pooled VMs Personal VMs Good Better Best Personalization App compatibility Ease of management Cost effectiveness Solution Principles Efficient Management Best Value for VDI Rich User Experience Easy deployment automates deploying and User Profile Disk maintains user RemoteFX for wide area network (WAN) configuring server roles. personalization in pooled deployments. dynamically detects network conditions and tunes experience. Unified administration uses a single, Fair Share dynamically distributes Graphics processing unit (GPU) support integrated console for management. bandwidth, CPU, and disk use. for both physical and software GPUs. Streamlined management helps IT manage Flexible storage options support direct- USB redirection enables access to locally pooled and personal virtual machines. attached, network-attached, or storage area attached devices in remote desktops. network (SAN) storage of virtual machines. Seamless experience supports multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu integration. Unified administration that is intuitive to manage Provide one, integrated Offer consistent publishing Automate and manage at scale console for roles, servers, applications and desktops with Windows PowerShell collections, users, and virtual machines Session Shadowing integrated with console Streamlined management of virtual machines for scalability Avoid patch storms by Use master images for personal Accelerate system queuing maintenance and pooled virtual machines preparation, optimize logons, updates and provide automatic rollbacks Best value for VDI with key platform capabilities User Profile Disk Fair Share Multiple storage options Maintain user Dynamically distribute Support direct attached, network, or personalization in pooled bandwidth, CPU, and disk SAN storage of virtual machines. deployments use Automatic Tiering and Deduplication High availability for all roles Personalization with User Profile Disk Benefits What should I deploy? Available with pooled virtual machine User Profile Disk collections and remote desktop session host collections With every virtual machine pool and remote desktop session host collection Stores all user settings and data User environment virtualization Contains roaming user profile, Folder User Profile Disk with To apply roam settings across collections Redirection cache, and user environment pooled virtual machine virtualization collections Folder Redirection To apply roaming user data across Roams with user within collection collections Appears as a local disk and improves To centralize user data backup application compatibility User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections Multiple storage options Use direct-attached Leverage tiered storage to Reduce storage cost by storage, network- automatically optimize leveraging disk deduplication attached storage, and performance clustered or SAN storage Storage options Sample configuration Windows Server 2012 Hyper V • Storage spaces • Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB3) and Hyper-V SMB support SMB • Cluster storage volume • Scale-out file server Scale out file server • Online disk dedupe and tiered storage VDI storage configuration • Direct-attached, central SMB, or central CSV / SAN Storage Storage Storage • Storage location of User Profile Space Space Space Disks, parent virtual hard disk, and virtual machines can be configured separately for each collection Storage Pool Storage Pool Storage Pool • Optimum use of high I/O Block operations per second versus high based volume storage storage Microsoft Application Virtualization Anywhere productivity Virtual desktop Access to applications on any device without installs Avoid business disruptions Log in to retrieve applications and restore productivity Accelerate deployment Login xxx Faster provisioning of virtual Login xxx applications on demand Local Device Thin Client High availability Use a scale-out file Improve with Experience up to 64 Further increase density server and Hyper-V active/active nodes and 8,000 by using Remote clustering broker virtual machines per Desktop Session Host cluster (greater than 2x with Hyper-V compared to virtual machines) High availability Web farm Hyper-V cluster Remote Desktop Connection Broker Remote Desktop With Windows Server 2012 Virtualization Host Active/active high availability mode for brokers Remote Desktop Remote Desktop Remote Desktop Connection Scale-out file server and resiliency Web Access Web Access Broker Remote Desktop Virtualization Host SQL Server Clustering Requires Microsoft SQL Server Remote Desktop Remote Desktop Session Host Automatic data migration from single instance Session Host to high availability Database RemoteRemote Desktop Desktop GatewayGateway Web farm Remote Desktop Licensing Remote Desktop Session Host farm Cluster Comparing and reducing VDI costs Personal virtual EachWith image Application = OS + application machines DAS Storage savings savings +userVirtualization data and + App-v and disk Eachstorage user hasfor appsa personal image dedupelication Pooled virtual machines + Reduce costs across all deployment DAS Storagetypes for by OS using images Windows 8 and direct- User Profile Disk + savings attached storage (DAS). DAS is Application Images to manage Virtualization approximately 25% the cost of SAN. DAS Server infrastructure savings management effort Costs Management Costs Compute Costs SAN Storage Costs DAS Storage Costs DIRECTACCES What is a rich user experience? Adaptive graphics Reconnect feature for ease of Ability to serve desktop apps to Full single sign-on RemoteApp programs remoting based on movement across devices Windows RT tablet users integrate seamlessly with content type local desktop Roam desktop and application Full multitouch and Aero always on, crisp text, settings from device to device gesture remoting USB Redirection rich new Windows UI RemoteFX and WAN Acceleration RemoteFX adaptive graphics Text Content Image Content Video/Animations RemoteFX progressive rendering RemoteFX for WAN Benefits Combines RemoteFX adaptive Delivers a great user experience graphics with intelligent WAN-aware beyond corporate networks transports Branch offices Automatic choice of TCP or secure UDP Wireless devices transport Work-from-home offices Detects and tunes graphics to network Roaming users on 3G/4G networks dynamically and automatically Integrated with Remote Desktop Gateway Balances bandwidth and scale to give the best user experience RemoteFX Media Streaming Supports redirection of Windows Media Decreases bandwidth consumption as much as 90% Uses dynamic codecs that have low bit rates for audio and Media Streaming video Provides server-side video detection for other media types RemoteFX USB device redirection Can be used with all scenarios Physical, virtual, or session desktop No GPU needed Isolates devices to the user’s session Uses a wide variety of USB peripherals, including those requiring isochronous USB Device Redirection transfers Isochronous transfer RemoteFX USB Device Redirection Choice of GPU on server Provides 3-D capabilities to sessions and virtual machines at high scale CPU-emulated DirectX Optimized for knowledge worker workloads such as Microsoft Office and web browsing 11.1 software GPU Provides the highest scale for session host and VDI Provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX 11 GPU for VDI, optimized for: Best performance for 3-D graphics-intensive applications RemoteFX vGPU Best experience with full animations and transitions Best application compatibility, running as a console session in a virtual machine New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Dynamically Improved Quick Reconnect DX11.1 support and Add/Remove RemoteApp behavior improved Codec monitors performance Cross Platform Client Support Microsoft User Experience Virtualization File share Virtual desktop Anywhere productivity Access to data and personal settings on any device Avoid business disruptions