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BP1018 Sizing and Best Practices for Citrix XenDesktop with Dell EqualLogic Storage 42
GbE NIC, Dual-Port
Citrix
XenDesktop
Infrastructure
Servers
•
1 x Dell PowerEdge R710 servers:
o ESXi 4.1
o BIOS Version: 3.0.0
o 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5690
3.46 Ghz Processors
o 96 GB RAM
o 2 x 146 GB 10K SAS internal disk
drives
o 1 x Quad-port Broadcom 5709 1 GbE
NIC (LAN on motherboard)
o 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 10
GbE NIC, Dual-Port
The VMs
were loaded with
Windows 2008 R2
OS.
Each VM
hosted:
• Citrix Web Interface
• VMware vCenter
• Domain controller (DNS
and DHCP)
• Microsoft SQL Server
(DDC
/ PVS and vCenter
Database)
• Citrix License Server
XenDesktop VDI
clients (Login
VSI Launchers)
VDI Workload
Generator
•
3 x Dell PowerEdge R710 servers:
o ESXi 4.1
o BIOS Version: 3.0.0
o 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5690
3.46Ghz Processors
o 96 GB RAM
o 2 x 146 GB 10K SAS internal disk
drives
o 1 x Quad-port Broadcom 5709 1 GbE
NIC (LAN on motherboard)
o 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711
10GbE NIC, Dual-Port
o Login VSI version 3.0
ESX
i 4.1 was installed on both R7
10
servers.
12
VMs were created on each ESXi
server
.
The VMs
were loaded with
Windows 2008 R2 operating
system.
40
Login VSI launchers were
initiated from each VM to simulate
VDI workload.
Network
•
2 x Dell PowerConnect M6220 1 Gb
Ethernet Switch
Firmware: 4.1.0.6, A24
• 2 x Dell PowerConnect M8024 switch
Firmware:4.1.0.19
• 2 x Dell PowerConnect 8024F 10 Gb
Ethernet Switch
Firmware: 4.1.0.19
4 x
10 GbE uplinks to the external
PC8024F switch from PCM8024
switches on the blade chassis.
The PC8024 switches
were used
for configuring the dedicated iSCSI
SAN. They
were lagged using 4 x
10
GbE links.
Storage
• 2 x Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS:
o 8 x 100GB SSD
o 8 x 450GB 15K SAS disks
o Dual 2 port 10 GbE controllers
vDisks and write c
ache for each
virtual desktop
was stored on
PS6010XVS
array.
User data
presented as a CIFS
share is stored on PS6510E array.