VD2505

Server and Storage Sizing Best Practices for VMware VDI

As organizations begin to move their desktops into the data center questions often arise on how to size the hardware necessary to run their infrastructure. This session will present a methodology for analyzing a desktop environment and using the findings to help drive decisions about storage and server requirements. We'll overview profiling and simulating desktop workloads, analyze sizing data, and propose a systemic building-block method for planning VDI deployments. Experiments were run at VMware and Dell labs to host 100s of desktop VMs on multiple servers with various storage configurations. Results and best practices for sizing of VDI deployments will be proposed based on analysis of these scenarios.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Dave Korsunsky( VMware,Inc. ), Ramesh Radhakrishnan( Dell, Inc ), Mike Coleman( VMware, Inc. )

Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., is a systems engineer on the Dell Solutions Engineering team. His areas of interest are flexible computing architectures, computer micro-architecture and performance analysis. Ramesh received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Dave Korsunsky: Storage Solutions Engineer. Focused on testing and developing joint solutions with VMware and partner products.

At VMware Mike is responsible to delivering technical content related to VMware VDI that enables customers to understand and deploy effective virtualized desktop solutions. Prior to joining VMware he spent time at Intel, HP, and Microsoft.