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Technical White Paper—Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for the Financial Services Industry
Executive summary VDI design considerations in FSI Solution architecture Standard VDI test results and analysis
Overview
Testing process
Profiles and workloads
Resource monitoring
Test configuration details
Summary of results
Conclusion References Appendix A: Definition of performance metrics

Overview

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Overview

  • Test objectives

    This testing was undertaken to assess the performance of several of the virtual desktop personas in common use across the FSI. The testing was carried out on a four-node VxRail V570F cluster with management functions hosted on a separate E460F cluster.

    The following personas were tested:

    • Front Office / Branch Worker (equivalent to Task Worker)
    • Knowledge Worker
    • Developer
    Note: The Trader persona was deployed with the Bloomberg Terminal application on four 4K monitors and was tested subjectively for the user experience, but was not subjected to performance testing as were the other personas.

    The Developer persona testing used a modified Login VSI Knowledge Worker workload. The workload was modified to run integrated development environments and carry out software developer-type tasks with programming languages in common use in the FSI. The software developer tasks included opening, scrolling, copying and pasting files with program code, compiling and debugging programs, and launching and closing the development environments.

    The following additional VDI test cases were also performed:

    • Running a modified Knowledge Worker workload to perform tasks representative of a software developer working in the FSI. This workload included tasks that perform the loading, editing and compilation of C++ code in the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment. The Developer VM profile is custom-tailored for this persona.
    • Running a modified Knowledge Worker workload to perform tasks representative of a software developer working in the FSI. This workload included tasks that perform the loading, editing and compilation of Java code in the Eclipse integrated development environment. The Developer virtual machine profile is custom-tailored for this persona.