My organiztion is looking to deploy VMware VIEW to manage virtual desktops. We are looking to be able to handle 200 connections at any given time and have 400 VMs all managed using Linked Mode. We are using a Fiber connected SAN with 4TB of storage across multiple LUNs. We are going to redirect users profiles and My Documents to a seperate CIFS.
We are looking to get 4 Servers with the following Specs:
2 Quad Core 2.60hz Chips(totaling 8 cores),
64GB RAM,
4 one GB network connections only used for the VMs(we will have other nics for managment, motion, etc).
Users will be using their Virtual desktops mainly for Office 2007 running on 32bit Windows xp. All other applications they use require minimal resources.
We assumed 8 active VMs per core, and 1gb of RAM per VM. So we assumed each server can handle 64 active VMs. About 3 servers to handle the 200 connected users and 1 Server to handle the 200 other VMs that are powered on but have no user connected to them.
Is this enough hardware to handle the load, is this Overkill, or is the logic above accurate? Thanks for the help.
