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BP1018 Sizing and Best Practices for Citrix XenDesktop with Dell EqualLogic Storage 40
8 Conclusions
The life cycle of a virtual desktop in a VDI environment includes many stages such as boot, login,
steady state, and logoff. Each of these stages results in varied amount of IOPS and can create a huge
impact on the underlying storage. The test configuration used in our tests could support up to 630
desktops with one array and 1270 desktops with two arrays and there were no bottlenecks observed
related to storage performance. The EqualLogic PS6010XVS arrays offers the right combination of high
performance SSD drives and 15K SAS drives for ensuring that the performance and capacity
requirements of a VDI environment are met. The test results also proved that linear scaling could be
achieved by adding additional EqualLogic array members.