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VDI Sizing

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We did some preliminary VDI capacity testing to identify the maximum VMs per server during the latest PoC and here are some results which can help you.The user is assumed a knowledge worker which runs Office 2007 and a LoB application.

  Server Configuration running client VMs:

  • DP quad core server with 32GB of RAM and 4 x1 GB NICs
  • Connected on an iSCSI storage-attached netwo
  • Windows XP VM: 512 MB of RAM
  • Windows Vista VM: 1GB of RAM

Results:

  • 45 Windows XP VMs per Server
  • 30 Windows Vista VMs per Server