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Citrix releases results of 5000 concurrent session VDI scalability test

On February 9, 2010, in Citrix Synergy, Events, Featured, VDI, Virtualization, XenDesktop, by René Vester

Citrix has released a description of their 5000 concurrent VDI session scalability test, and for their testing platform they chose the Login VSI from Login Consultants, which is the same methodology used in the Project Virtual Reality check, great move from my perspective.

You can download the entire document here: http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx123684

Some of my thoughts after reading:

Great to see the XenDesktop solution based on ESX!
Great and honest in-depth description of problems encountered
Why say scaling to 5000 when you only launch 3268 sessions? i get that 5000 sounds better but 3268 is cool enough
Very impressive PVS scaling i will be looking into the mentioned changes.

What do you guys think? is this possible?

What interest me most.. whats the price pr. Concurrent Device?

But worth a read for sure for everyone considering VDI.

/René Vester

Tagged with: Citrix • Project VRC • Scalability • XenDesktop

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René Vester

René Vester is a fulltime virtualization and server based computing enthusiast working for Conecto A/S a Danish Citrix specialist partner. René is the author of several blogs addressed to virtualization technologies and has authored many articles related to virtualization. He is a dedicated member of the community and spends the time he has sharing his experiences with vendors and peers. René is a Citrix Technology Professional and founder of the Danish Citrix User Group.

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