I have manage to put together VDI – Calculator. It is targeted for VMware View designs running on top of vSphere infrastructure.
Please feel free to suggest if anything missed or needs to be updated.
How to Use
• This calculator is targeted for VMware View designs running on top of vSphere infrastructure |
• All the inputs are Mandatory |
• All the calculations are done assuming VMware Composer along with Linked Clones is being used. |
• Hybrid Architecture is N/A |
• It assumes the processor speed as 2.5Ghz |
• All the calculations have been done for RAID5 |
• Overheads are considered 1. 5% for CPU 2. 5% for Memory 3. 10% for Storage |
• IOPS calculated at 10 IOPS per VDI with 80% Read IOPS & 20% Write IOPS |
• This calculations doesn\’t count the Boot storm IOPS |
• Three Types of Users are considered 1. Task Workers 2. Knowledge Workers 3. Power Users http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-18924 |