VDI Calculator- design of VDI infrastructure

Question

Can You Help me? How much resources are needed for a VMware VDI project for 800 Users ?

CPU, Memory, Storage or Local Disk?

How many are needed Host's , vCenter Server and Connection Servers? Please help me in the design of infrastructure?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Description is very vague, but ballpark you should be aware of the following things:

• number of desktops in cluster (in your case 800)
• OS types of the desktops (Windows XP, Vista, 7, etc) as it will affect the number of base images for your Linked Clones Pool and amount of resources you need per VM
• OS applications list and types of users(Basic or Power User), it significantly affects number of resources you need, especially I/O capacity of your storage subsystem.
• current performance of physical desktops; I really liked VMware Capacity Planner, which can give you really good insights about current performance situation

After you answer these questions, it highly recommended to get familiar with following documents:

• VMware View Storage Considerations - based on estimated I/O you will be able to plan storage system capacity.
• VMware Horizon View Best Practices
• VMware View Backup Best Practices
• "boot storm" and "antivirus storm" and how to avoid it

To sum up, it's just the initial things I would consider before planning.