Machine profiles and user workloads determine the density numbers that the solution can support. Each profile and workload is bound by specific metrics and capabilities, with two targeted at graphics-intensive use cases. The profiles and workloads are defined as follows:
- Profile—The configuration of the virtual desktop, the number of vCPUs, and the amount of RAM that is configured on the desktop and available to the user
- Workload—The set of applications used
At Dell Technologies we have defined four different VDI user profiles that represent a large number of typical use cases. The following table describes each profile along with its typical workloads:
| Profile name/workload | Workload description |
| Task Worker | The least intensive of the standard workloads. This workload primarily runs Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Internet Explorer, with some minimal Microsoft Word activity, as well as Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, and copy and zip actions. The applications are started and stopped infrequently, which results in lower CPU, memory, and disk I/O usage. |
| Knowledge Worker | Designed for virtual machines with 2 vCPUs. This workload includes the following activities:
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| Power Worker | The most intensive of the standard workloads. The following activities are performed with this workload:
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| Graphics performance configuration/multimedia | A workload that is designed to heavily stress the CPU when using software graphics acceleration. GPU-accelerated computing offloads the most compute-intensive sections of an application to the GPU while the CPU processes the remaining code. This modified workload uses the following applications for its GPU/CPU-intensive operations:
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