The power of virtual desktops in an easy, affordable package

VDI-in-a-Box offers the best of both worlds: users get personalized desktops for their applications, configurations and data, while Windows desktop administrators manage a single master image. Personalized desktops also allow for single-instance management. Now, rather than juggling many persistent desktops, IT can maintain one master copy of desktop images, while preserving personalized user apps and data. This saves IT time and money—including up to 90 percent of datacenter storage costs—while delivering a highly personalized end-user experience.

To get started with virtual desktops, you need only two things: an off-the-shelf server with a hypervisor and VDI-in-a-Box software. Just load the software, power it on, and you're ready to go. How easy is that? High availability is built-in, so you can go to production by simply adding a second server.

Users have the freedom to work from anywhere and access their desktop from any device. With Citrix Receiver, you can provide secure access to any desktop from any of over two billion devices, including iOS, Android, WebOS, Chrome OS, Mac OS, Linux and Windows PCs, thin clients and mobile devices.

Desktop administrators manage VDI-in-a-Box servers centrally with an intuitive wizard-driven interface that abstracts virtualization details. A “touchless” desktop agent (dtAgent) saves administrator time in setting up and maintaining desktop images. Full control over virtual desktop names allows admins to run scripts and automate management routines. VDI-in-a-Box logs are in a syslog format to leverage any third party analysis tool, including Splunk, Solarwinds and Loggly. Automated policy-based management cuts desktop support costs.

VDI-in-a-Box removes the need for the shared storage, high-speed interconnects, multiple management servers and clustered SQL servers that VDI typically requires. The all-in-one design simplifies VDI and delivers high availability without additional infrastructure.

You can start small with one or two servers and grow as your needs evolve by simply adding more servers to the grid. No re-design is required.