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Citrix Workflow StudioDelivering Operational Efficiency across the Delivery Center

Nikolay ShadrinSystems Engineer

What is Workflow Studio?

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Users Apps

Citrix Delivery CenterTM

XenDesktop XenApp XenServer

NetScaler

Workflow Studio

“Transforming Datacenters into Delivery Centers”

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80%“eight out of ten dollars that companies spend on IT is ‘dead money’”

“80% of unplanned downtime is due to ‘people failures’”

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Users Apps

Workflow Studio is about automation

Citrix Workflow Studio

App UI Logic Data

Workflow Studio Technology

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Workflow Foundation and PowerShell

Workflow Foundation

Base Activity Library

Runtime Engine

Runtime Services

Visual Designer

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Technology Stack

Activity Libraries

Workflow

Product APIs

WMIPowerShell Web ServicesVBScript

Products

XenDesktop XenApp XenServer NetScaler 3rd Party

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Designer

Configuration Panel

Results Panel

Activity Panel

Designer

Solutions

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“average utilization of servers is less than 15%”Gartner

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Power Management

• Monitor XenApp Load

• Modify Load Balancing Rules

• Monitor XenServer VM Usage

• Automatically Migrate VMs

• Start / Shutdown Physical Servers

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User Provisioning

• Add users/groups to Active Directory

• Remove users/groups from AD

• Configure Group Policy

• Generate passwords

• Integrate with applications

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Dynamic Resource Allocation

• Provision additional servers

• Start / Stop VMs

• Copy files

• De-Provision / Re-Provision servers

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Disaster Recovery

• Detect network or system failures

• Detect application failures

• Reconfigure networking

• Automated response

• Automated Notification

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Product Automation

• Implementing Best Practices

• Service Resiliency

• Fixing the 'little things'

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Use Cases

On-Demand Automation Event-driven AutomationSchedule-based Automation

Extensibility

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Extending Workflow Studio

Rich support for existing technologies• Native support for PowerShell, WMI, Windows Script

Support for Workflow Templates

Ability to extend integration points• Workflow Studio UI will expose the ability to build custom activities• New activity libraries can be developed and “snapped in” asynchronously

• Citrix developed• 3rd party developed

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Availability

Workflow Studio 1.0 available nowfor all customers current on Subscriptionfor All Editions except Express Edition

XenDesktop XenApp Essentials

NetScaler

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