VMware Performance and Capacity Management - Second Edition

VDI capacity planning

We've covered a lot about SDDC. Let's include VDI, as it shows how capacity management changes when you include higher-level services (above your IaaS).

VDI differs from SDDC at the business level. It is much more than server workload versus desktop workload. With VDI, it is DaaS, which runs on top of the IaaS. So, the scope goes beyond IaaS. It includes the VDI VM (for example, Windows 7 and Windows 2008) and the Horizon infrastructure VM.

As a result, there are three areas where you need to monitor for capacity:

• The user's VDI VM: This is typically Windows 7 or Windows 10 64-bit. Different users have different workload profiles, even though they may use the same set of applications. I've seen users who use Microsoft Excel ...