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Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying VMware View 4.5
on VMware vSphere 4.1 with Dell EqualLogic Storage
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4.2.3 Host performance in the View Client ESX cluster
During the test, we measured CPU, memory, network and disk performance on all of the View Client
cluster ESX hosts
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Figure 10
. The performance of one of the ESX hosts is presented here. It is representative of
all the ESX hosts under test. The results shown in the figures in this section were captured using
VMware vCenter.
shows the CPU utilization for one of the ESX hosts during the test. The CPU usage ramped
up during the login phase as new client sessions were launched. Overall, the CPU utilization of the ESX
host averaged less than 50% during the test. Figure 11 shows that server memory utilization stayed less
than 90% during the test run. Memory ballooning was minimal to none on the ESX host. As seen in the
figure, transparent memory sharing between VMs started in the latter part of the test period. This led to
lower memory usage than the first part of the test. The increased memory usage toward the end of
the test was caused by client activities during logouts.
Figure 10: CPU utilization for one ESX View Client Cluster Host during 1014 non-persistent desktop test
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Dell PowerEdge M610 blade servers configured with dual Six Core Intel Xeon X5680 CPUs running at 3.33 GHz,
with 96GB of installed memory.