In reply to Gary Davis.

Hi Gary,

Take a look at the Cisco Validated Design (CVD) from the link in the post. It will answer a lot of your questions.

To address your specific questions, we booted 5000 Windows 7 SP1 HVDs from shut down to ready to log in 40 minutes.

The Login VSI workload test logged in 5000 users who all started using eight applications immediately after login with a random delay of application startup after login of up to 15 seconds in 30 minutes.

Every user is working productively on all of their applications concurrently within that 30 minute period.

See page 187 in the CVD for a detailed description of the user workload simulation.

The VNX7500 configuration is detailed in Chapter 6 on page 101.

All of the HVDs ran on a single dedicated VLAN. See Chapter 6, page 49 for a list of all VLANs configured in the environment. We utilized our Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco Nexus 5548UPs, and Cisco Nexus 1000Vs to provide VM to L3 QoS priority for HVD traffic.

Thanks for your comments!