and also specify is there any RDS farm? how many desktop they will?Īnd at last I think you need to recognize which type of VDI clients you want to use? (Zero client, Thin client, Desktop App, Web App or. Network Bandwidth (I/O) for your VMs to specify ESXi Uplink counts and speed of each adapter (total transmit rate)Īlso you need to choose which type of VDI protocols you want to use: RDP, PCoIP or Blast? or Mixed. Computing resource (physical CPU and physical RAM for Horizon ESXi Cluster/Servers) 2. Also you need to calculate total hardware requirement: 1. Storage space for VMDK of Desktops and it's required I/O to specify Datastore's Disk type (SAS, Flash-Based. Then you can estimate VDI server requirements, for example if you want to deploy Linked-Clone you need at least one server for Composer and one for its database.

Computing resource (physical CPU and physical RAM for Horizon ESXi Cluster/Servers)Ģ. Average Application Updates per Year: Base Image Updates per Year: Image/Profile Corruption Incidents per User per Year: Total Helpdesk Tickets Raised per Year Due to Image or Profile Issues: Mean Time To Repair (minutes). Then you can estimate VDI server requirements, for example if you want to deploy Linked-Clone you need at least one server for Composer and one for its database.Īlso you need to calculate total hardware requirement:ġ. VDI Image Type: Image Size (GB) Number of Base Images: Average User Profile Size (MB) THREE. Then you need to specify desktop types (full VM clone, Linked Clone, Instant Clone). What is the OS version/build you required to use for your desktops (VMs)? and are they same? I means are they need same computing resources? It will provide information about how many Desktop pools you need for your company desktop environment. So if you want to analyzing your VDI requirement please answer about following questions? This is a suitable file for Horizon Calculation about VDI deployment on vSphere environment:

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