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The goals of this document are to provide storage sizing guidance and best practices based on lab results for a Citrix XenDesktop based VDI solution.
Our test infrastructure included:
Citrix XenDesktop 5.0VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 Hypervisor™Dell PowerEdge™ M610 blade serversDell PowerConnect™ switchesDell EqualLogic™ SANs The primary objectives of our testing were: Determine how many virtual desktops can be deployed using a single Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS virtualized iSCSI SAN array with acceptable user experience indicators for task workers.Determine the performance impact on the storage array during peak I/O activity such as boot and login storms.Determine how to scale the number of virtual desktops by adding additional storage array members.
