With all the announcements that were mentioned to kick off this New Year into high gear, one added solution that stood out to me was the Citrix Workspace Pod. Being that we are an HP premier platinum partner, that makes this marriage of products a lot more enticing for us!
Some key elements to CWP worth mentioning:
- CorePod services run on the HP SL4540 dual-socket Xeon-E5 servers (e.g., core services Citrix NetScaler Gateway,
XenDesktop Delivery Controller, Citrix/RDS licensing, XenApp Management, Citrix StoreFront, Vyatta Router, Active
Directory, File Services, Zenoss, ShareFile Storage Zones, Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft App-V 5.0, Microsoft Windows
2012 R2 Templates, and Microsoft SQL Server)
- Additional compute and storage capacity in each SL4540 (six Xeon-E5 and 45 LFF SSDs or HDDs up to 6TB each)
- Flexibility, High Availability, and scalability with a distributed storage software on SL4540
- All-in-one, ultra-converged, heterogeneous solution integrating Xeon-E5 and Xeon-E3 CPUs, GPUs, Distributed
Storage, and Networking (Moonshot’s cartridge-based, modular architecture allows for other workload-optimized
CPU architectures and compute engines.)
- SL4540 provides the gateway to the outside world; the high bandwidth, low latency 40GbE network remains local
within this architecture as the interconnect between HP Moonshot and HP ProLiant SL4540 without the need for a
separate TOR or Core network Switch
- Ability to scale up to three HP Moonshot chassis with a single HP SL4540 3x15 system and the ability to scale to
three ProLiant SL4540 1x60 chassis or three SL4540 3x15 with a single Moonshot 1500 chassis
- Measured lab data for this reference architecture has shown 2250 concurrent sessions for XenApp and 675
concurrent sessions for XenDesktop. This demonstrates great TCO as compared to alternative solutions
While it is modular for scale-out applications, this chassis-pair focuses on an engineered solution around Citrix
Workspace Suite for delivering a secure and cutting edge workspace. This accelerates productivity on any device
of choice, at any time, and from any place. As a result, customers can manage apps and devices, collaborate from
anywhere with secure apps and data, virtualize Windows desktops and apps, optimize their network, and leverage the
cloud. Also, it takes advantage of the SanBolic WARP Drive Technology!
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