*Based on a 3 year amortization and publicly available information as of February $42/device annual $21/device annual $133/ ccu MS $63/device Licensing Comparison of VDI* Citrix Microsoft, Citrix and Dell VDI delivers savings – with lowest CAPEX numbers. Hardware and Hypervisor scale of VDI Hyper-V 2008 R2 RTM 1000 users Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP users $320/user 2 $222/user 2 VMware 1280 users $242/user 1 1 Based on: StatelessVirtualDesktop-WP.pdf?src=ie9trhttp:// StatelessVirtualDesktop-WP.pdf?src=ie9tr 2 Based on Dell MSRP pricing online as at 3/17/2011 of hardware used in MMS keynote MS VDI Standard Suite Citrix XenDesktop “VDI Edition” VMware View Premier
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Virtual machine-based Remote Desktops (VDI) Session-based Remote Desktops (RD Session Host fka Terminal Services) Think of VDI like RD Session Host with higher isolation but with less scale and more cost
Current Disk Queue Length (Aggregate of 42 disk Storage target + local disk usage) Memory Add Operations % of working set Peak test load reached PP Processor %
% Total Run Time (Total Processor load) Memory Operations % remaining of working set Memory Operations A single VM memory load (no higher than 540MB)
Memory Operations % remaining of working set Peak test load reached PP Processor % Current Disk Queue Length (Aggregate of 16 disk SAN + local disk usage)
Memory Operations % remaining of working set Peak test load reached PP Processor % Current Disk Queue Length Scale 1/100 Length never hits beyond 1
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