Cisco UCS B200 M3 Specifications

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CISCO UCS B200 M3 BLADE SERVER:
UNCOMPROMISED VIRTUAL DESKTOP PERFORMANCE
APRIL 2012
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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When deploying your virtual desktop solution, choosing server hardware that is
powerful enough across the compute and memory dimensions to support a large
number of virtual desktops is crucial. The more virtual desktops per server you can
support, the fewer servers you need to buy to provide virtual desktops to support your
desired number of users.
To find the virtual desktop capacity of a single Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server,
we used the Login Consultants Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI) 3.0 benchmark. The
Login VSI workload we used performs a range of tasks to simulate a typical knowledge
worker. The benchmark results show the maximum number of virtual desktops that a
server can support by measuring response times throughout the test.
Testing we conducted in the Principled Technologies lab revealed that a single
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server running VMware® vSphere 5 could support up to 182
concurrent Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 virtual desktops, each running a Login VSI 3.0 Medium
workload, while still providing an excellent desktop experience for the end-user. This
workload only used 3 percent of the available UCS bandwidth, leaving significant
headroom for additional blades in the chassis for scalability, demonstrating the
extensive bandwidth capacity afforded by the Cisco UCS architecture.
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Summary of Contents

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CISCO UCS B200 M3 BLADE SERVER: UNCOMPROMISED VIRTUAL DESKTOP PERFORMANCE APRIL 2012 A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT Commissioned by Cisco S

Page 2 - RESPONSE TIME MATTERS

A Principled Technologies test report 10 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance and applies the formula Baseline

Page 3 - Baseline = 921

A Principled Technologies test report 11 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance APPENDIX A – SERVER AND STORAGE

Page 4 - Average processor utilization

A Principled Technologies test report 12 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance System Cisco UCS B200 M3 server

Page 5 - Total fabric usage

A Principled Technologies test report 13 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance APPENDIX B – HOW WE TESTED To de

Page 6 - Provisioning Services IOPS

A Principled Technologies test report 14 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance Figure 10: Our test environment

Page 7 - WHAT WE TESTED

A Principled Technologies test report 15 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance Figure 11: Our logical network

Page 8 - About Login VSI

A Principled Technologies test report 16 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance EMC CX 3 storage array We cabled

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A Principled Technologies test report 17 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 4. In the NTP settings, add a r

Page 10 - SUMMARY

A Principled Technologies test report 18 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 9. Close DNS. Setting up a VM t

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A Principled Technologies test report 19 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 10. Connect the machine to the I

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A Principled Technologies test report 2 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance MORE VDI SESSIONS ARE BETTER Choo

Page 13 - APPENDIX B – HOW WE TESTED

A Principled Technologies test report 20 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 2. Select DHCP Server, and clic

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A Principled Technologies test report 21 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 6. Click OK. Add the Web server

Page 15 - Setting up the storage

A Principled Technologies test report 22 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 11. Enable remote desktop access

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A Principled Technologies test report 23 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 11. Choose Windows, choose Micro

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A Principled Technologies test report 24 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 4. Change httpsWithRedirect to

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A Principled Technologies test report 25 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 18. Keep the default virtual dev

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A Principled Technologies test report 26 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 11. Click Install. 12. Click Fin

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A Principled Technologies test report 27 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 3. Click the Virtual Machines t

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A Principled Technologies test report 28 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 4. Select default installs. 5.

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A Principled Technologies test report 29 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 7. Create a file called c:\pyth

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A Principled Technologies test report 3 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0006

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A Principled Technologies test report 30 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance Disabling Windows Firewall The d

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A Principled Technologies test report 31 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 10. Log into gold_image as VDI\A

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A Principled Technologies test report 32 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 5. Change mode from private mod

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A Principled Technologies test report 33 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 2. Click Power Management. 3.

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A Principled Technologies test report 34 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance 4. Browse computer Configuratio

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A Principled Technologies test report 35 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance APPENDIX C - LOGIN VSI INI FILES

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A Principled Technologies test report 36 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance baseURL = sys.argv[1] us

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A Principled Technologies test report 37 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance sys.exit(-4)

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A Principled Technologies test report 38 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance APPENDIX D – RESOURCE UTILIZATIO

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A Principled Technologies test report 39 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance ABOUT PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES

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Page 35 - WILauncher.py

A Principled Technologies test report 5 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance Figure 4 shows the fabric usage t

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A Principled Technologies test report 7 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance GREATER BANDWIDTH HEADROOM PROVID

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A Principled Technologies test report 8 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance capacity allocation becomes more

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A Principled Technologies test report 9 Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: Uncompromised virtual desktop performance indicative of a typical “knowledg

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