Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions with Citrix XenDesktop

Why Cisco and Citrix

Give your IT Organization the efficiency, scalability, and security required for successful virtual desktop deployments. Cisco Desktop Virtualization solutions, combined with industry-leading Citrix XenDesktop software, can accelerate desktop virtualization and VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) adoption. They can also provide the data center foundation for the end-to-end Cisco Virtual Workspace (VXI) Smart Solution.

These solutions help enable IT to provide users with a productive, mobile, and highly secure work environment anywhere on multiple devices. They do so through a set of scalable, simplified, and cost-effective data center infrastructures tailored to different delivery models, use cases, and scalability requirements.

Cisco UCS and Desktop Virtualization

Delivered as a core building block of Cisco Desktop Virtualization solutions, the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is ideally suited for hosting desktop and application virtualization by providing:

• Simplified operations for greater agility
• Massive modular scalability
• Lower operations and infrastructure costs
• Superior deterministic performance

Desktop IT managers can now benefit from the combined strengths of Cisco UCS and Citrix XenDesktop. Deploy and easily scale virtual desktops, free of the guesswork traditionally associated with sizing, installing, and expanding virtual infrastructure.

Customers of all sizes who want to implement desktop virtualization can confidently deploy a "day-1" infrastructure that provides an optimized balance of memory, I/O capacity, and CPU processing power. The result is a price-to performance ratio that delivers significantly lower incremental costs as virtual desktop seats are added.

With Cisco and  Citrix solutions, desktops can easily be delivered as a service from a single integrated platform. Now IT can quickly scale up and down desktop services on demand to meet changing business needs and proactively protect against unplanned downtime.

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Cisco Validated Designs for Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop

Desktop Virtualization Services

Smooth the transition to a Cisco Desktop Virtualization solution by getting the expertise and best practices you need every step of the way.

Unified Computing and Servers

Deploy, host, and manage virtual desktops on a simpler, more secure and scalable data center infrastructure.

Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers

Simplify, secure, and scale from pilots to enterprise-wide production VDI deployment.

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers

Accelerate small-scale VDI deployments.

Cisco UCS Manager

Simplify provisioning and management of desktop virtualization deployments.

Voice and Unified Communications

Benefit from a portfolio of endpoint devices and collaboration software that provide the flexibility to support a wide variety of different workgroup needs.

Cisco Virtualization Experience Client (VXC)

Achieve the benefits of virtual desktops without compromising a high-quality, multimedia user experience.

Cisco UCS Base and Expansion Packs for Desktop Virtualization

Smooth the transition to a Cisco Desktop Virtualization solution by getting the expertise and best practices you need every step of the way.

Cisco UCS 6200 Fabric Interconnects

The Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects provides both network connectivity and management capabilities to all attached blades and chassis.

Cisco UCS 5100 Blade Server Chassis

The Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server delivers a scalable and flexible architecture for current and future data center needs.

Cisco UCS B200 M2

The Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server is a half-width, 2-socket blade server with substantial throughput and scalability.

Cisco UCS B250 M2

The UCS B250 M2 server uses Intel's latest Xeon 5600 Series multicore processors to deliver superior performance and efficiency.

Cisco UCS B230 M2

The Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Servers deliver the performance and reliability of the Intel Xeon processor E7-2800 product family with up to 32 dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slots, in a compact half-width form factor.

Cisco UCS B200 M3

The Cisco UCS B200 M3 Server harnesses the power of the Intel Xeon E5-2600 processor product family, to deliver exceptional levels of performance, memory expandability, and I/O throughput for nearly all applications.

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface card

Deploy a high-performance, converged network adapter with the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC). This adapter provides acceleration for the various new operational modes introduced by server virtualization.

Cisco Wide Area Application Service (WAAS)

Provides comprehensive WAN optimization and application acceleration solution for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp.

Cisco Identity Services Engine

Provides policy enforcement across the network with a context-aware, identity-based platform that gathers real-time information from the network, users, and devices.