Citrix C3 Lab

Citrix Cloud Center - C3

The Citrix Cloud Center (C3) is an integrated portfolio of Citrix delivery infrastructure products packaged and marketed to the cloud service provider market. C3 integrates cloud proven virtualization and networking products that power many of today's largest Internet and Web service providers.

Citrix C3 is designed to give cloud providers a complete set of service delivery infrastructure building blocks for hosting, managing and delivering cloud-based computing services. C3 includes a reference architecture that combines the individual capabilities of several Citrix product lines to offer a powerful, dynamic, secure and highly available service-based infrastructure ideally suited to large-scale, on-demand delivery of both IT infrastructure and application services.

Resources

Getting Started in AWS

Citrix Cloud Center

Citrix Access Gateway

Citrix Branch Repeater

Citrix XenApp

Product Documentation

C3 Lab Support Forum

Licensing

Related Blogs

Amazon Web Services

Amazon AWS Console

C3 Virtual Appliances

XenServer Virtual Appliances

Delivering Apps in EC2

Citrix C3 Solutions for Amazon VPC

Amazon VPC is a secure and seamless bridge between a company's existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources. Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2, and will integrate with other AWS services in the future. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no long-term contracts, minimum spend or up-front investments required. With Amazon VPC, you pay only for the resources you use.

Solution Blueprint

Description

XenApp farm expansion into the cloud, Data on premise - This blueprint documents deploying Citrix XenApp in a private cloud environment to deliver Windows applications from the cloud over a secure VPN. Citrix XenApp is provided as an Amazon Machine Images (AMI) running in Amazon VPC. With this Citrix XenApp AMI, both hosted application and streaming application is supported. You must have a XenApp server farm, SQL database, and License Server on premise in your datacenter for this XenApp server to connect back to. This XenApp AMI, the expansion AMI, will connect back to your premise datacenter for license retrieval and SQL datastore. Customers and prospects will benefit from using this blueprint to gain experience with hosting applications, streaming applications and for testing applications prior to delivering them in their corporate environment.

XenApp farm expansion into the cloud, Data in the cloud - This blueprint documents deploying Citrix XenApp in a private cloud environment to deliver Windows applications from the cloud over a secure VPN. Citrix XenApp is provided as Amazon Machine Images (AMI) running in Amazon VPC. With these Citrix XenApp AMIs, both hosted application and streaming applications are supported. The first AMI will serve as the first XenApp server in the cloud farm, and contains both a license server and SQL Server 2005 Express. Other XenApp AMIs (expansion AMIs) will connect to the First server for licensing and SQL datastore. Customers and prospects will benefit from using this blueprint to gain experience with hosting applications, streaming applications and for testing applications prior to delivering them in their corporate environment.

Citrix C3 Solutions for the Cloud

Amazon EC2's simple web service interface allows customers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides companies with complete control of the computing resources and lets customers run on Amazon's computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing companies to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing payment only for capacity used.

Solution Blueprint	Description
	Windows Applications as a Service - This blueprint documents deploying Citrix XenApp in a public cloud environment to deliver Windows applications from the cloud. Citrix XenApp is provided as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running in Amazon EC2. With Citrix XenApp AMI, both hosted application and streaming application is supported. Customers and prospects will benefit from using this blueprint to gain experience with hosting applications, streaming applications and for testing applications prior to delivering them in their corporate environment.
	Secure Hosted Windows Apps as a Service - This blueprint documents deploying Citrix XenApp with Citrix Secure Gateway in a public cloud environment to deliver Windows applications as a service securely via an application specific Virtual Private Network (VPN). Citrix XenApp is preconfigured for application hosting and secure delivery via Citrix Secure Gateway in a single Amazon EC2 AMI. Customers and prospects will benefit from using this blueprint to gain experience with the performance characteristics and user experience of providing secure remote access to Windows applications via Citrix XenApp hosted application virtualization.
	C3 XenApp Fundamentals - This blueprint describes how to deploy Citrix XenApp Fundamentals 2.0 in a public cloud environment to deliver Windows applications. This page provides all of the details you will require to create a XenApp Fundamentals instance running in Amazon. Citrix XenApp Fundamentals is a simple, cost-effective remote access solution that enables small to mid-size businesses with up to 75 remote users to securely access corporate Windows® applications and files from anywhere at anytime.
	Accessing Corporate Data from the Cloud - This blueprint documents deploying Citrix C3 in a public cloud environment to deliver Windows applications from the cloud with secure, high performance access to corporate data residing behind the corporate firewall. Citrix XenApp, the Citrix Access Gateway client and the Citrix Repeater client are provided in a single Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running in Amazon EC2. Customers and prospects will benefit from the ability to configure and test applications in a cloud environment without having to migrate or replicate their sensitive corporate files in the cloud. Instead, the application accesses the corporate data on-demand via the Citrix Repeater and secured via Citrix Access Gateway. The WAN acceleration benefit of the Citrix Repeater can also be easily demonstrated with this configuration.
	Bridging to a Corporate Network from Amazon EC2 - This blueprint documents deploying Citrix XenApp in a public cloud environment to deliver Windows applications from the cloud with secure access to corporate data residing behind the corporate firewall. Citrix XenApp, the Citrix Access Gateway client and the Citrix Repeater client are provided in a single Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running in Amazon EC2. Customers and prospects will benefit from the ability to configure and test applications in a cloud environment without having to migrate or replicate their sensitive corporate files in the cloud. Instead, the application accesses the corporate data on-demand via the Citrix Repeater and secured via Citrix Access Gateway. The WAN acceleration benefit of the Citrix Repeater can also be easily demonstrated with this configuration. Users authenticate once, using their enterprise credentials, and are then given access to applications on EC2 and data held in the enterprise.
	C3 Cloud Bridge - This blueprint documents how Citrix is using the Citrix C3 lab to demonstrate the feasibility of application virtualization and data delivery from the cloud. The datacenter or premise infrastructure is located at Citrix Labs in Santa Clara. The Citrix C3 lab is running in Amazon Web Services EC2. A Vyatta site-to-site SSL VPN connects the two. Citrix Branch Repeater/WANScaler makes the data delivery fast, Vyatta makes it secure. This page describes the Citrix technologies used to create this demo environment and is a compelling example of how ISV's and Enterprises can setup similar demo environments using Citrix XenApp in the cloud.
	C3 Cloud Burst - This blueprint documents how Citrix is using the Citrix C3 lab to support the launch of Citrix Receiver for iPhone. A "private" cloud is created using Citrix C3 – Citrix XenServer, Citrix NetScaler, Citrix Workflow Studio and Citrix XenApp hosted by Citrix partner Softlayer - to deliver Windows Application to the iPhone. The private cloud uses the Citrix C3 Lab running in Amazon Web Services EC2 as an "overflow" cloud when demand exceeds the private cloud capacity. The blueprint documents the mechanics and workflow required to synchronize user data across clouds and load balancing across the cloud for optimal performance.
	Delivering Windows Apps to an iPhone - This blueprint documents how to deliver Windows applications and documents to the iPhone.for demonstration and evaluation purposes. Citrix XenApp is provided in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running in Amazon EC2. Links and instructions are also provided for Citrix Recever for iPhone and Citrix Doc Finder. Customers and prospects will gain experience from the ability to rapidly evaluate application usability for use with the iPhone.
	Secure Access to the Cloud - This blueprint documents deploying Citrix Secure Access Gateway in a public cloud environment to enable secure access via a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Citrix Access Gateway Standard Edition is provided as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running in Amazon EC2. By utilizing the Citrix Secure Access Gateway AMI a secure SSL VPN connection is established to the Amazon EC2 resources. Customers and prospects will benefit from this blueprint by ensuring any applications and data they deploy in the Citrix C3 Lab is secured via SSL VPN.
	App Virtualization Test Lab - This blueprint documents how Citrix is migrating Citrix Ready Virtual Test Lab from a hosted resource capped environment to the non-constrained resource elastic Citrix C3 Lab running in Amazon EC2. The Citrix Ready Virtual Lab is an online lab environment that can be utilized by partners that do not have access to their own Citrix lab environment; however, it currently can only support 8 concurrent testing sessions due to physical lab constraints. After the migration is completed, the new Citrix Ready Virtual Test Lab will take advantage of the Amazon Web Services Elastic Computing Model to dynamically scale up or down based on demand.