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5 Software Components 5.1 Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.1 The DVS Simplified Appliance is based on Citrix‖s VDI-in-a-box solution. VDI-in-a-Box is an easy, affordable, all-in-one desktop virtualization solution that makes the benefits of desktop virtualization available to nearly every business. VDI-in-a-Box is the virtualization solution that makes the benefits of desktop virtualization available to every business. Customers of VDI-in-a-Box are radically improving PC management and availability by replacing traditional PCs with virtual desktops that are centrally managed and provisioned. Since VDI-in-a-Box seats generally cost less than PCs to deploy and scale on demand, organizations are able to repurpose existing PC budgets to deploy it. Desktop administrators manage a grid of VDI-in-a-Box servers centrally with an intuitive wizarddriven interface that abstracts virtualization details. Automated policy-based management cuts desktop support costs. Here are some scenarios in which VDI-in-a-Box can be effective: ● PC Replacement: When considering a PC refresh cycle, for the same budget you can upgrade to VDI-in-a-Box. Benefits include sizable reduction in the operational costs of patching and updating desktops, greater security, lower unplanned 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 VDI-in-a-Box offers the flexibility to co-locate servers at remote or branch offices and still manage them centrally. This overcomes the WAN bandwidth constraints that traditional centralized (VDI) architectures face. ● Desktops as a cloud-based service and managed services: The scale-on-demand architecture of VDI-in-a-Box enables service providers to incrementally scale their data center as demand grows, without having to over-invest and overprovision upfront. 24 Dell DVS Simplified Appliance Reference Architecture

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Dell DVS Simplified Appliance Reference Architecture
5
Software Components
5.1
Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.1
The DVS Simplified Appliance is based on Citrix
‖
s VDI-in-a-box solution. VDI-in-a-Box is
an easy, affordable, all-in-one desktop virtualization solution that makes the benefits of
desktop virtualization available to nearly every business. VDI-in-a-Box is the virtualization
solution that makes the benefits of desktop virtualization available to every business.
Customers of VDI-in-a-Box are radically improving PC management and availability by
replacing traditional PCs with virtual desktops that are centrally managed and
provisioned. Since VDI-in-a-Box seats generally cost less than PCs to deploy and scale on
demand, organizations are able to repurpose existing PC budgets to deploy it. Desktop
administrators manage a grid of VDI-in-a-Box servers centrally with an intuitive wizard-
driven interface that abstracts virtualization details. Automated policy-based management
cuts desktop support costs.
Here are some scenarios in which VDI-in-a-Box can be effective:
●
PC Replacement: When considering a PC refresh cycle, for the same budget you
can upgrade to VDI-in-a-Box. Benefits include sizable reduction in the
operational costs of patching and updating desktops, greater security, lower
unplanned 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 VDI-in-a-Box
offers the flexibility to co-locate servers at remote or branch offices and still
manage them centrally. This overcomes the WAN bandwidth constraints that
traditional centralized (VDI) architectures face.
●
Desktops as a cloud-based service and managed services: The scale-on-demand
architecture of VDI-in-a-Box enables service providers to incrementally scale
their data center as demand grows, without having to over-invest and over-
provision upfront.