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... Options 12 3.1.4 Appliance User Loads 13
3.2 VDI-in-a-box Core Components 13
4 Hardware Components 15
4.1 The Simplified Appliances 15 4.1.1 PowerEdge R720 Rack-Based Solution 15 4.1.2 PowerEdge T620 Tower-Based Solution 16
4.2 Storage 16 4.2.1 Disk Space Requirement by Workload 17 4.2.2 Drive IOPS Requirement by Workload 19 4.2.3 Persistent and Non-Persistent Desktops Defined 20...
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...and Cloud Client Computing solutions meet the needs of a rapidly changing and increasingly mobile workforce by providing near universal access to corporate apps and data. They also provide IT departments with a greater degree of control by delivering a flexible user experience without compromising security. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.1, the Dell DVS Simplified Appliance provides a simplified, cost...
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... the DVS Simplified Appliance
Dell's DVS Simplified Appliance is a simple, practical VDI appliance designed specifically to address the business and technical needs of mid-sized virtual desktop deployments so you can unlock innovation and productivity enabled by the mobile "consumerization" era. The pre-configured DVS Simplified Appliance pre-integrates hardware and software, simplifying...
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... consolidates connection brokering, load balancing, provisioning and VDI management functions with Dell server hardware to radically simplify management and provisioning of desktops
Affordable
All in one appliance - Integrates VDI Manager software, Dell ProSupport and Dell PowerEdge servers to create a cost-efficient simple appliance with no requirement for network storage
Ideal...
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... for years to come.
Differentiation: Only Dell offers an end-to-end solution. Single point of contact for all hardware, software and services support.
2.4 Feature Overview
2.4.1 Design Principles
The design principles for the flexible computing solution are: ● Secure - Security risks, concerns and policies are addressed or mitigated. ● Manageable - The solution...
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... Deployments
The Dell DVS Simplified Appliance is designed for the progressive mid-market VDI customer supporting anywhere from 50 users to hundreds of end users. While these customers may have considerable IT expertise, they may not have the resources to design and implement a highly flexible and scalable desktop virtualization solution. This design helps drive optimizations in the...
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... staff at a branch office, tellers at credit union retail offices.
Non-primary desktops or access scenarios - home office, office "hotel-ing," mobile user access via tablets, remote service technicians, office desktop pools
2.6 When is DVS Simplified Appliance Right for Me?
The Dell DVS Simplified Appliance is specifically targeted at customers that have hundreds of users versus the...
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...virtual desktops offer another benefit ― single instance management. Rather than juggling many persistent desktops, IT departments can maintain one master copy of desktop images while preserving the personalization of user applications and data. This dramatically reduces recurring management overhead and can cut data center storage costs by up to 90 percent.
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...IP address. This ensures end-to-end high availability regardless of the endpoint device being used and without requiring a load balancer.
2.8 Dell ProSupport and Professional Services Overview
Dell ProSupport is included with the DVS Simplified Appliance, providing comprehensive hardware and software support for three years. This allows your support staff to spend less time on issue resolution and...
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... physical to virtual creation of desktop image, installation of the Dell DVS Simplified Appliance and other client devices and knowledge transfer.
Blueprint Assessment Services - Dell‖s Blueprint Assessment Service uses a virtual appliance and agent software, deployed on the customer‖s network, to gather detailed data from every desktop targeted for virtualization. The outcome...
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... below references a Citrix "VDI-in-a-Box" deployment using a grid architecture that makes expansion easy and delivers high-availability (HA) without requiring externally attached shared storage (such as a SAN). This results in a significant cost savings. To expand a VDI-in-a-Box deployment, simply load the Citrix software on additional Dell
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..., a set of applications and the VDI-in-a-Box Desktop Agent
Policies that specify how many desktops to create, how much RAM to allocate to each, whether local USB peripherals can be accessed by the virtual desktop and the desktop refresh policy.
● Citrix Desktop Receiver
o Software running on an endpoint that enables the device to connect to a virtual Windows XP...
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... downtime, disaster recovery options and extension of the client lifecycle by two to three times.
● Windows 7 Migration: Ease the migration issues typically associated with an operating system upgrade by deploying Microsoft Windows 7 on VDI-in-a-box. This enables you to preserve the current user desktops while upgrading.
● Remote Office/Branch Office: The appliance-based approach of...
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... host server. If the host server fails, another server in the grid becomes the host and fields the connection requests. The grid-wide virtual IP address feature provides end-to-end high availability without requiring a load
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... Server Manager MMC on all Hyper-V versions of the appliance.
Can be loaded on Windows 7 (and above) clients that have "Remote Server Administration Tools" installed (as a free download from Microsoft).
VDI with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V Role benefits from a rich end user experience with support for rich media and USB devices with Microsoft RemoteFX as well as...
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... to "VDI-in-a-Box Best Practices for Microsoft Office Activation:" http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134351.
5.4 Citrix Desktop Receiver
The Citrix Desktop Receiver is a client-based plug-in that is installed on the user‖s endpoint device. This is to be used in-conjunction with Citrix VDI-in-a-box when the user
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... a VDI-in-a-box site to access a virtual desktop, the web site can detect that the Citrix Desktop Receiver is absent from endpoint devices and automatically prompt users to download and install it from the site.
Click HERE for more information on the Citrix Desktop Receiver.
5.5 Citrix XenCenter
The DVS Simplified Appliance virtual machine environment provided by Citrix XenServer is...
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... from the DVS Simplified appliance, there are a number of exclusions that can be configured to optimize performance of the on-access or real-time scanning.
Exclusion C:\*.*
Exclude Subfolders
Yes
Pagefile.sys
No
C:\windows\system32\spool
Yes
Read/Write
Notes
Read
This prevents files from the C drive of the desktops being scanned since these are scanned prior to setting the drive as...
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7.1 Load Generation and Monitoring
7.1.1 Login VSI - Login Consultants
The Login VSI tool (developed by Login Consultants) was used to generate the desktop workloads. It is a widely-used tool for testing VDI environments and server-based computing / terminal services environments. It installs a standard collection of desktop application software (e.g. Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc...
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... address the business and technical needs for mid-sized virtual desktop deployments so you can unlock innovation in the virtual era. The appliance integrates pre-configured Dell PowerEdge 12G servers with factory installed Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.1 software simplifying implementation and accelerating your time to value. Dell Cloud Client Computing is a true end to end solution combining Dell Desktop...