Desktop virtualization can help you speed migrations, enhance security, and reduce OpEx—all while delivering a consistent user experience. But implementing the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) necessary to make these gains can increase your IT complexity, resulting in higher costs and heavily taxed network resources.
F5 provides VDI solutions that simplify your infrastructure, reduce costs, deliver unified access and superior performance, and scale up to meet the demands of large, distributed deployments.
Unify access control and security
VDI solutions can contain many disparate components, each focusing on a single task—such as user or device authorization. F5 unified access solutions help you manage access and security policies centrally, enabling secure remote and local access to virtual desktops.
- Integrate with leading VDI security and access solutions.
- Provide user-based access security policies for local and remote users.
- Limit access based on device type, user location, and other key criteria.
Get high availability and scalability
Major hurdles for VDI deployments include scaling up to meet the demands of large and distributed deployments and providing reliable, transparent disaster recovery across data centers. Through intelligent global and local load balancing, sophisticated health monitoring, and SSL offloading, F5 improves the availability of your VDI implementation and ensures your enterprise can scale to meet the demands of large, distributed deployments.
- Scale VDI servers on the back end to support thousands of mobile users.
- Create a single namespace for “always-up” user availability.
- Support VDI instances in multiple locations transparently to your users.
Optimize the experience for your users
Often, there’s a trade-off between VDI performance and security: gain one, sacrifice the other. F5 helps you maintain a high-quality user experience by optimizing VDI delivery over the WAN while streamlining security services such as single sign-on (SSO) and offloading SSL. In addition, your users enjoy access from almost any device of their choice, truly supporting enterprise-level, bring-your-own-device deployments.
- Reduce bandwidth requirements for VDI over the WAN.
- Support any user on any device.
- Improve the user experience with priority support for advanced VDI protocols.
- Deliver a secure and optimized VDI experience with the unified F5 BIG-IP platform.
Simplify your infrastructure and reduce costs
Today, many VDI vendors deliver applications in silos with distinct and dedicated infrastructure components. This complicates the network architecture. The F5 unified VDI solution integrates authentication, directory services, high-speed SSL, and advanced features such as ticket management and SSL offloading throughout the virtual desktop infrastructure so you can optimize virtual desktop delivery with fewer resources.
- Offload VDI application services such as SSL, ticket management, and SSO.
- Manage VDI persistence at the user level.
- Quickly and easily deploy VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop between multiple data centers with F5 iApps.
- Flatten VDI deployments by creating a single-point access solution between data centers.
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F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Immediate Payback for VDI Project
“Initial use of the F5 solutions gave us immediate payback for unified remote access from any device. We are able to plan and expand the technology to cross our DR requirements in a much more simplified way.”
Source: IT Architect, Large Enterprise Energy & Utilities Company
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