Validation Report and Recommendations for a Scalable VDI Deployment using Citrix XenDesktop and Provisioning Services, NetApp Storage and VMWare Server Virtualization
The following Citrix document is intended to provide advanced technical personnel - architects, engineers and consultants – with data to assist in the planning, design and deployment of a Citrix XenDesktop hosted VM-based (VDI) solution that scales to 5000 desktops. This document presents the findings of internal Citrix testing that simulates a large enterprise deployment of VDI desktops.
This document provides data generated from a sample deployment, in which a single OS image is provisioned to 5,000 unique desktop users. This document is not intended to provide definitive guidance on scalability, and the data should be interpreted and adapted for your specific environments. To help you understand the data, some examples of possible recommendations are made throughout the document to adjust to different scenarios.
The information gathered from this testing is part of a comprehensive and constantly growing guidebook to scalability.