Test configurations

In this release, we chose to test and characterize the Knowledge Worker profile.

Desktop VM test configurations

The following table summarizes the compute VM configurations for the profiles and workloads that we tested:

Table 5. Compute VM configurations
User profile	vCPUs	ESXi configured memory	ESXi reserved memory	Screen resolution	Operating system
Knowledge Worker	2	4 GB	2 GB	1920 x 1080	Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit

The following table shows the hardware configuration that we used in the testing:

Table 6. Hardware configuration
Enterprise platform	CPU	Memory	HBA	Disk	Network	GPU
Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525	2 x AMD EPYC 7543 (64 cores @ 2.8 GHz)	2048 GB (32 x 64 GB @ 2933 MHz)	Dell HBA345	2 x 800 GB WI SAS SSD (cache) 4 x 1.92 TB MU SAS SSD (capacity)	Mellanox ConnectX-5 25Gbe Dual port SFP28	None

The following table shows the BIOS, firmware, and software versions that we used in the testing:

Table 7. BIOS, firmware, and software versions
Hypervisor	Hypervisor version	Hypervisor build	BIOS	NVIDIA vGPU version
ESXi	7.0 Update 1	17325551	2.0.2	None

The following table shows the PAAC gold image version that we used in the testing:

Table 8. PAAC gold image version
Guest OS	Microsoft Office	VMware Tools	Citrix VDA Version	Display protocol
Windows 10 version 20H2	Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise	11.1.5 + appInfo disabled	1912 LTSR CU	Thinwire + switch codec