Slash Your VDI TCO with Citrix Entitlements

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) isn’t cheap. Between licensing, endpoint refreshes, hypervisor fees, monitoring tools, and load-balancing appliances, it’s easy to spend more on management than on servers themselves.

But what if we told you that with a few smart moves - using only tools you’ve already paid for - you could cut your VDI total cost of ownership by up to 40%? That’s right: when you fully leverage your Citrix licensing entitlements, you can transform VDI from a money pit into a lean, mean, productivity machine.

Unicon Thin Clients: Zero-dollar Device Refresh

Most organizations replace PCs on a 3-5 year cycle. Citrix licenses include unlimited seats for Unicon thin clients which reduce licensing and maintenance costs, extend the life of PCs to 5-7 years, and can be installed on a device that costs a few hundred dollars.

• Long-life hardware: 5–7 year refresh cycle
• Lower support overhead: streamlined management and updates
• Instant provisioning: PXE boot or local flash image

Savings spotlight: Switching 200 seats from PCs ($800 each) to Unicon thin clients ($300 each) saves ~$100K right off the bat—before you even log into the hypervisor.

XenServer: The Included Hypervisor That Scales

Did you know your Citrix license covers Citrix XenServer at no additional cost? Say goodbye to per-socket fees with outrageous minimum core counts from other vendors:

• Unlimited hosts & VMs: Scale out your cluster without surprise invoices
• Built-in HA & live migration: Protect and maintain uptime for all sessions
• Integrated GPU support: Deliver 3D-accelerated workloads via NVIDIA GRID

Pro tip: Convert existing ESXi or Hyper-V hosts to Citrix Hypervisor to consolidate management and eliminate your hypervisor license line item.

UberAgent: Visibility You Already Own

Monitoring, alerting, diagnostics—these used to require separate APM or endpoint-management tools. With Citrix Workspace entitlements, you get the ability to deploy uberAgent across your whole environment.

• Session-level metrics: CPU, memory, I/O per user in real time
• Auto-discover hotspots: Quickly pinpoint overloaded hosts or apps
• Historical trends: Drive capacity planning and justify hardware purchases
• Pinpoint application performance issues and stop guessing what technology is at fault
• Shut down redundant monitoring licenses and reduce helpdesk MTTR by up to 50%.

Unlimited NetScaler

Traditional ADC appliances will nickel-and-dime you per-instance. Your Citrix licensing includes unlimited NetScaler VPX instances with 1Tb of throughput. 1Tb of licensed throughput means you’ll never have to by more capacity again – you simply add instances to scale.

• Global Server Load Balancing: Zero-cost DR and geo-load distribution
• SSL VPN & MFA: Secure remote access without extra appliances
• Single Sign-On: Seamless authentication into SaaS and web apps

Consolidate your F5, Palo Alto, and VPN appliances into a single pane of glass—and cut licensing fees in half.

Putting It All Together: A 4-Step Action Plan

1. Audit your Citrix entitlements. Identify unused rights for thin clients, hypervisor, uberAgent, and NetScaler.
2. Redeploy endpoints. Pilot Unicon thin clients in one department, measure support calls, then scale.
3. Migrate hypervisor. Stand up a Citrix Hypervisor cluster and start testing workloads alongside your other hypervisors.
4. Switch monitoring & ADC. Decommission legacy APM and Application Delivery Controller appliances after netting identical functionality with Citrix tools.

Result: Real-world customers are seeing 25–40% reductions in both CAPEX and OPEX within the first year.

Ready to stop overpaying for VDI?

Contact us to schedule a no-obligation assessment of your Citrix footprint—and start turning your entitlements into hard-savings today.