A great new VMware View/Cisco UCS/V-Max whitepaper

The team in Santa Clara pumped this one out furiously over the last little while – it’s got great content.

Here are a couple of highlights:

• We showed we could support 640 desktops on four half-width UCS blades, each configured with 96GB of RAM.   That’s 160 users per blade, and almost 4x what we did with the previous generation of this work on older generation Dell M600 blades.
• This time, the workload included not only office apps, but also Outlook – very difficult to generate a workload in this use case (Loadgen is designed to stress the Exchange server environment, not the client) – we’re trying with each iteration to make the VDI use case workload generation more “real world”
• The V-Max wasn’t huffing and puffing.
• This config could scale up linearly due to vSphere, UCS, and V-Max scaling models.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/App_Networking/vdiucswp.html

More to come, we’re starting on new stuff coming from VMware, adding EFDs into the mix, and more.

Comments

[Tyler "T-Rex" Rohrer]

Hey there, we would be happy to give you all copies of Stratusphere to bubble up granular metrics to diagnose what system/infrastructure/user/application elements are being stretched, or not in this architecture...very curious to see the data...bravo, this is great stuff

Ping me at tyler.rohrer@liquidwarelabs.com

Cheers!!!