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:
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 |
Hardware configuration
The following table shows the hardware configuration that we used in the testing:
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 |
BIOS, firmware, and software versions
The following table shows the BIOS, firmware, and software versions that we used in the testing:
Hypervisor | Hypervisor version | Hypervisor build | BIOS | NVIDIA vGPU version |
ESXi | 7.0 Update 1 | 17325551 | 2.0.2 | None |
PAAC gold image version
The following table shows the PAAC gold image version that we used in the testing:
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 |