Best way to determine how much disk space is needed for a desktop deployment?

[kappyninewood]

We are running a Lakeside Assessment and it looks at total disk space being used by our desktops, but I want to determine how much SAN space we need for our Pilot. What's the best way to figure this out assuming we're going with Linked Clones, but have yet to determine how many bases images we'll have...

[vLarus]

This calculator from myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici - @andreleibovici) is just the tool for you.

http://myvirtualcloud.net/?page_id=1076

Good luck.

Message was edited by: vLarus

[vSolid · Accepted solution]

It's depend on the OS and numbers of VMs, for linked clone images, you may need a few of them, one for standard user, one for task user, and one for power users "admins"

Also is the application will be with the OS or using ThinApp?

All of those need to be consider about before go to storage design, also think about having SSD disk in your host to support replica image "linked-clone"

Sent from my iPad

[mittim12]

Also keep in mind how aggressive your refresh schedule is going to be. If you are going to wait 3 months between refreshes then you would need a lot more space than if you are refreshing at logoff.