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VMware VDI Server Sizing and Scaling Whitepaper

Saturday, 26 August 2006 by Michel Roth

VMware has released a whitepaper on VDI Server Sizing and Scaling. The white paper describes the testing methodology, results, and analysis and sizing guidelines for setting up Virtual Desktop Infrastructure using VMware Infrastructure 3.

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a PC management solution for enterprise desktop administrators. VDI is a server-based computing offering that provides desktop environments as an enterprise hosted service. VDI allows administrators to maintain and manage all user applications, data, and environments in the centrally located data center. VDI provides a true, isolated PC environment while sharing underlying hardware resources. VDI allows administrators to provide PC environments with all the benefits of virtualization central management, hardware consolidation, and resource flexibility. This white paper describes the testing methodology, results, and analysis and sizing guidelines for setting up Virtual Desktop Infrastructure using VMware Infrastructure 3. It covers the following topics:

Understanding Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on page 1
Server Capacity Overview on page 3
Test Environment on page 3
Performance Results on page 7
Summary of Results on page 17
Setting Up the Tests on page 18
References on page 19

Read the whitepaper here.