Red Hat ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION FOR DESKTOPS User Manual

RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION SIZING GUIDE A Principled Technologies sizing guide commissioned by Red Hat, Inc.

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 10 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide Figure 10: Network traffic in the office worker scenari

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 11 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide SUMMING IT ALL UP Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 12 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide APPENDIX A – HOW LOGIN VSI WORKS After all desktops are

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 13 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide APPENDIX B – INSTALLING AND TESTING RED HAT ENTERPRISE V

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 14 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide 5. Type rhn_register to begin the registration on the R

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 15 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide 9. Change to the Storage tab and select New Domain. Add

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 16 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide Setting up the Login VSI test bed We created the remaini

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 17 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide 33. Start the guest. 34. Connect the guest’s virtual CD-

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 18 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide 9. Assign a Directory Services Restore Mode Administrat

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 19 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide 15. At the Confirm Installation Selections screen, click

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A Principled Technologies sizing guide 20 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide 11. Choose 4 GB RAM, and click Next. 12. Click 1 for the

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 21 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide Cloning the launcher We created a template from the VM n

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 22 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide APPENDIX C – GUEST OPTIMIZATION SETTINGS Below, we summa

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 23 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide o Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service o UPnP

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 24 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide set value to "0" (Disable)  Disable System

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 25 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide  Disable Toolbar Notifications  Disable Balloon Tip

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 26 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide APPENDIX D – DETAILED SERVER CONFIGURATION System Dell

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 27 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide System Dell PowerEdge R710 Rank Dual Operating system N

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 28 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide ABOUT PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES We provide industry-leadin

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 3 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide EXECUTIVE SUMMARY You’re looking to deploy a virtualized

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 4 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide Based on our testing, we developed the sizing guidelines

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 5 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide 01234560 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110Response time

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 6 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide INVESTIGATING THE NUMBERS We ran 110 desktops in our offi

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 7 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide Figure 5: CPU utilization in the power user scenario. M

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 8 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide Power users, understandably, require more memory per gues

A Principled Technologies sizing guide 9 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide Not surprisingly, the power user requires more disk overh