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VDI PERFORMANCE COMPARISON:
CISCO UCS SOLUTION VS. HP SOLUTION
CISCO UCS SOLUTION VS. HP SOLUTION
JANUARY 2011
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Cisco Systems, Inc.
OUR FINDINGS
Organizations deploying a desktop virtualization
solution benefit by using servers that support many
users. Using servers with high memory capacity lets an
IT department save money by requiring fewer servers to
support their virtual desktop load. In Principled
Technologies’ tests in our labs, the Cisco Unified
Computing System™ (UCS) B250 M2 Extended Memory
Blade Server (Cisco UCS solution) supported 112 virtual
desktops, while the HP ProLiant BL460c G7 Server (HP
solution) supported 93 virtual desktops. Thus, the Cisco
UCS solution supported 20.4 percent more virtual
desktops. Both solutions ran Citrix® XenDesktop® 4 with
Citrix XenServer® 5.6 hosting Microsoft® Windows® 7
virtual desktops on a NetApp® FAS3040 storage area
network (SAN).
OUR PROCESS
To measure the virtual desktop capacity of the Cisco
UCS solution and the HP solution, we used the Login
Consultants Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI) Beta3
benchmark. Login VSI consists of several workloads that
perform a range of tasks to simulate a typical office
user. The results show the maximum number of virtual
desktops a server can support at a given memory
configuration while giving an acceptable response time
and user experience.