Cisco has released a paper titled: "FlexPod Datacenter for 2000 Seats of Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 on VMware vSphere 5.1". The paper which contains 275 pages describes a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) covering FlexPod Datacenter for 2000 Seats of Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 on VMware vSphere 5.1 including technologies XenDesktop 7.1, Cisco UCS Blade Servers, Cisco UCS unified fabric, as well as NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.
The paper contains the following sections:
- Overview
- Architecture
- Infrastructure Components
- Architecture and Design of XenDesktop 7.1 on Cisco Unified Computing System and NetApp FAS Storage
- Solution Validation
- Desktop Delivery Golden Image Creation and Resource Provisioning
- Test Setup and Configurations
- Solution Performance Validation
- Scalability Considerations and Guidelines
- References