Leading Market & Media Research Company, US

Infrastructure / Volume Metrics

• Around 8500 Virtual Desktop hosted globally in the standard Cluster structure out of which 5500 use VMWare View and 3000 are Citrix HSDs
• Around 12,000 users access 3,000+ applications accommodated in 28 Citrix XenApp farms
• ESX hosts configured on Dell series (R905, R815, etc) configured between 48 CPUs, 196 GB RAM, 12 Nics, and Cisco UCS blades
• All ESX hosts are vMotion and HA configured on a cluster basis
• Both connectivity were tested and validated using thick and thin clients
• Storage: Netapp, EMC, IBM etc

Scope

• VDI (dedicated desktops) for users using VMWare View technology
• Use of HSD workstations via traditional Remote desktop Connection and Citrix XenApp technology
• Application virtualization solution using Citrix XenApp

Implementation Challenges

• Existing stand alone ESX host migration to Cluster-based setup due to varying factors like vendor and version compatibility issues
• Desktop / Application performance issues due to Network latency and BW constraints
• Thin Client / VDI Imaging and manageability through HPDM servers

Customer Benefits

• Cost saving, Minimizing Hardware requirements
• Increased business response time and ease in managing the Virtual Infra as compared to the Physical desktops
• Minimize space requirements to host the Virtual machines helping in financial cut-downs
• Established high availability and Rapid provisioning of production desktops