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Figure 45. NetApp Deduplication
5.7 Citrix XenServer Configuration
This section details the XenServer configuration and any tuning that was done on for testing.
The following configurations were made to the environment to capture data and increase overall performance:
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A custom XenServer performance measurement script was configured on the XenServers to gather more
specific CPU data as noted in Citrix support article as per CTX124157.
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Addition memory has been added to Dom0 increasing the amount to 2,490MB as per CTX124259.
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A private hotfix (Dom0-multivCPU) was installed on all the XenServers to enable the XenServer control
domain to become multi-core enabled. This private hotfix is scheduled for a 2010 Q4 release
Figure 46. Software Components
XenServer 5.6
Hardware:
Cisco B-Series blade servers
Model:
B250 –M2
OS:
XenServer 5.6.0 buildnumber 31188p
Service Pack:
-
CPU:
2 x 6 Core Westmere or 5680, 3.33 GHz
(24 Logical Cores Total)
RAM:
192 GB
Disk:
Boot From SAN
Network:
4 x 10GbE
Private Hotfix Dom0-multivCPU
3 Resource Pools were created
o 2 RPs x 880 - Virtual Desktops for the scaled out test of 1760
o 1 RP - XenDesktop and associated infrastructure