Specifications

A Principled Technologies test report 10
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
understand and quantify the specific needs of VDI users and create baseline settings to ensure
the results are representative of your environment. For more details on the settings used in our
testing, see Appendix B.
For more information on Classic and Dynamic VSI max, see
http://www.loginvsi.com/en/admin-guide/analyzing-results#h0-1-calculating-vsimax
For more information on Login VSI 3.0, see
http://www.loginconsultants.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=390.
SUMMARY
A server that supports greater density of hosted virtual desktops without sacrificing
performance will minimize the cost of your infrastructure and improve ROI. In our tests, the
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server running VMware View 5 with VMware vSphere 5 provided
impressive virtual desktop hosting density. The Cisco UCS solution delivered 186 concurrent
VMware View 5 virtual desktops with acceptable user response times and minimal bandwidth
usage.