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Virtual desktop solutions have been around for a number of years; however, they have been complex and costly to set up, limiting the technology to larger enterprise-sized organizations. With the release of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, organizations of all sizes can now benefit from VDI. VDI-in-a-Box is often a new area for small to mid-sized businesses, and it is vital to gain a detailed understanding of the technology to ensure a successful project.
Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with all the information that you need to understand the technology in detail. It provides comprehensive guidelines that will help you to design and implement a solution and it also helps you to build a case for VDI with the help of use cases and case studies.
Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box starts with a detailed look at the architecture of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box before moving on to discuss the design tools and implementation methodologies. It then moves on to typical use cases, including a detailed case study to enable you to position where VDI could sit in your organization. This will help you to build a strong business case for VDI by referencing the significant advantages that the technology can bring. The book finishes with a chapter describing how you can run a successful proof of concept project using existing hardware and free evaluation software.
Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box will enable you to introduce VDI into your organization and to utilize the incredible benefits within your management team.
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Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box
Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box
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Credits
Author
Stuart Arthur Brown
Reviewers
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James Preston
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About the Author
Stuart Arthur Brown is a Pre-Sales Consultant, specializing in VDI. Stuart lives in Cheshire, a county in the north-west of the UK. He has worked in the Citrix reseller channel since the mid 90's, and has been involved with the design and project management of a number of shared and virtual desktop solutions.
Stuart first became aware of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box in 2011, and was hugely impressed with the functionality and simplicity that the product offered; so much so that he changed the focus of his business to become a VIAB solution reseller, working with organizations to help them to successfully implement the technology. Stuart's business, Vitalize Consultancy (http://www.vitalizeconsultancy.co.uk), is working with organizations to help them to make the right decisions with VDI, and can offer skilled consultants and a wide range of complimentary solutions.
I would like to thank my wife, Tamara, and my son, Henry, for their help, support, and encouragement for not only writing this book, but running my own business.
About the Reviewers
Mark Fermin is an Information Technology Architect in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He has over 17 years experience in Information Technology Engineering, Consulting, and Architecture. His most recent work has been focused on virtualized application and desktop delivery and solutions design, mobile technology enablement, and cloud computing architecture and engineering. Mark has significant industry experience in healthcare and legal technology.
Mark's expertise has come from employment with industry leaders and clients including Microsoft, Citrix Systems, GlassHouse Technologies, Xerox, Bayer AG, and McKesson Corporation.
Mark has been an active blogger and contributor to the Citrix, application, and desktop virtualization community through publications in his own blog (http://benchtime.wordpress.com), contributions made through exclusive membership in the Citrix Partner Technical Experts workgroup, membership and participation in local Citrix user groups, VMWare, Cisco partner, and customer advisory groups, and healthcare and industry specific advisory workgroups.
Acknowledgement
I'd like to thank my family for their sacrifices in enduring my years spent in consulting and sales engineering that have contributed to my technical and business expertise. They were instrumental and supportive through the years of my career spent mostly on the road and away from home. Without their support, I would not be where I am in my career now, and have the wonderful opportunities to provide expert reviews on works such as this one.
I would also like to thank all of the mentors I have had over the years, who have challenged and guided me to attaining the expertise I have today, and who have taught valuable professional and personal lessons along the way. From my professors at Lawrence University who taught me the foundations of how to think analytically, and how to creatively solve problems in the truest of liberal arts fashion, to my managers and mentors in technology who conferred vast knowledge of how to apply analytical thought from a Biology major to real world technical and business challenges. I thank you all. I would not have the opportunities I have today to lead, design, and be a mentor myself to the next generation of technologists who will follow in our footsteps.
James Preston has been working in the field of Educational IT since leaving college and has worked to provide the same level and variety of services that businesses enjoy to schools in the United Kingdom.
Over the past few years, James' focus has been on remote access technologies including Microsoft Direct Access, Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, and Microsoft Lync empowering educators and students to work from home just as well as they can in school.
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Preface
The purpose of this book is to assist you to understand, design and implement a Citrix VDI-in-a-Box solution. Beginning with a background and introduction to the product it then moves onto how you should design and size a solution prior to implementation. It then shows you how to build a VDI-in-a-Box solution and concludes with more information on use cases and case studies, before finishing with a chapter on how to test VDI-in-a-Box.
What this book covers
Chapter 1,Background and Benefits of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box provides a brief introduction to the technology before moving onto an overview of the components of the VDI-in-a-Box software appliance. It also discusses use cases and provides a highlevel overview of the configuration process.
Chapter 2, Designing and Sizing Citrix VDI-in-a-Box provides a comprehensive breakdown of the decision-making process prior to the implementation. There are a number of options to consider plan and siz required before implementation can begin.
Chapter 3, Building and Configuring Citrix VDI-in-a-Box aims to work you through a typical VDI-in-a-Box setup starting with the hypervisor installation to the importing of VDI-in-a-Box and the configuration. It also describes some of the more advanced configurations options such as profiles and printing.
Chapter 4, How Organizations are using Citrix VDI-in-a-Box provide you with details on typical use cases for VDI-in-a-Box to help you to plan how to use it. It also includes a detailed case study showing how a UKbased manufacturing company is using Citrix VDI-in-a-Box to deliver a desktop to users at a satellite office.
Chapter 5, Conducting a Successful Proof of Concept helps you to plan a proof of concept project, focusing on user acceptance testing. It also contains valuable information to enable you to create a business case.
What you need for this book
To implement Citrix VDI-in-a-Box you will need your choice of Hypervisor and Citrix VDI-in-a-Box which you can download from the Citrix web site.
Who this book is for
This book is designed for IT staff who are planning to test and implement Citrix VDI-in-a-Box.
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