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 |