Citrix Desktop Server 1.0: What it is and isn’t
Brian Madden posted a new article detailing the bullet points of Citrix Desktop Server (CDS). Citrix Desktop Server is “a strategic enabler for desktop computing allowing organizations to proactively support and drive business objectives by reducing the total time, effort, and cost of delivering desktops by as much as 40%” - according to Citrix. Following are Brian’s points about CDS.
- CDS Version 1.0 will be available to buy and download very soon, most likely on April 27.
- CDS is a brand-new product from Citrix. This means that if you have subscription advantage (SA) on Citrix Presentation Server (CPS), you will not get CDS.
- CDS will give you three options for providing remote desktops: Blades, VDI, and TS-based
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- The blade option will let you connect users to datacenter blade PCs running the desktop OS for a user.
- The VDI option is VM vendor-agnostic, meaning that Citrix doesn’t care whether you use Xen, VMware, Microsoft, Virtual Iron, etc. to power your back-end desktop VM environment.
- The TS-based option is more-or-less like publishing a desktop in Presentation Server, where the CDS product will be an add-on to Terminal Server. Existing Presentation Server customers would probably just use regular Presentation Server for this. However, most CDS customers will be different people than CPS customers, and Citrix wanted to build CDS so that it could deliver all types of desktops to users.
- One Citrix Web Interface site will work for both CDS and CPS deployments.
- There will only be one “edition” of CDS (i.e. no standard, advanced, etc.). It will cost USD $75 per named user, and will include one year of SA.
- CDS is being written by the Virtualization Systems Group (VSG) within Citrix. This is the same group that’s responsible for Presentation Server and the app streaming stuff. CDS and CPS share the same codebase and much of the same architecture.
Also, be sure to check out Patrick Rouse’s article titled “Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Overview” for more information about VDI technologies in general.
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