A fundamental component for all of our Dell and VMware solutions for desktop virtualization is the execution of a variety of performance characterizations and evaluations. Dell and VMware engineering team collaborate closely behind the scenes to do these performance characterizations and to share and establish best practices and guidance in our reference architectures for desktop virtualization. We announced our renewed joint focus on solutions for desktop virtualization earlier this year and we are now beginning to publish an assortment of best practices and unique performance testing results via blogs, wikis, and other social media. We like to think of this as our summer project for 2013! J This engineering work is a core part of “solution–izing” process, aka the taking a set of ingredients and creating a robust, trustworthy, end–to–end optimized solution.
In this blog we introduce a Dell TechCenter wiki article outlining performance testing and analysis of various options for managing a pool of virtual desktops. As outlined in the article we assessed the impact of various boot-on-demand scenarios on resource utilization and end-user experience and the implications of these scenarios on power optimization. The assessment work looked at impacts on both storage and CPU utilization–and also at the end user experience … as implications for the user experience must always be carefully assessed in any virtual desktop environment.
This performance testing article is another example of the system wide approach to testing and performance qualification we do to optimize our solutions for desktop virtualization with VMware. Recently we posted this TechCenter article on testing results of migrating to Office 2013 from Office 2010 in virtual desktop environments. Our efforts for generating best practices and real-world optimization practices you can use are gaining momentum–make sure to check back at Dell TechCenter Client Virtualization site often for the latest technical articles.
Additional resources:
Dell DVS Enterprise with VMware Horizon View 5.2 Reference Architecture
Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions web page
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