Cisco has published a paper titled: "Reference Architecture for 500-Seat and 1000-Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Citrix XenDesktop 7 built on Cisco UCS B200-M3 Blade Servers with EMC VNXe and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012". The paper which contains 418 pages contains a reference architecture for building a VDI infrastructure which is validated by Cisco, Citrix, EMC and Microsoft.
The paper describes provides the architecture and design of a virtual desktop infrastructure that can grow from 500 users to 1000 users. The infrastructure is 100% virtualized on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 with third- generation Cisco UCS B-Series B200 M3 Blade Servers iSCSI booting from an EMC VNXe3300 storage array. The virtual desktops are powered using Citrix Provisioning Server 7 and Citrix XenDesktop 7, with a mix of hosted shared desktops (70%) and pooled desktops (30%) to support the user population. Where applicable, the document provides best practice recommendations and sizing guidelines for customer deployments of XenDesktop 7 on the Cisco Unified Computing System.
The paper covers the following sections:
- Introduction
- Solution Component Benefits
- Summary of Main Findings
- Architecture
- Infrastructure components
- Solution Architecture
- Desktop Delivery Infrastructure – Citrix
- Test Setup and Configurations
- Login VSI Test Result
- Scalability Considerations and Guidelines
- Other Considerations
- References