FlashStack Cisco UCS X-Series and Pure Storage for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

May 31, 2024

This Cisco document details the design of the FlashStack Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2203, VMware vSphere 8.0 U2 Design Guide, which describes a validated Converged Infrastructure (CI) jointly developed by Cisco and Pure Storage.

In this document Cisco covers how to deploy this solution in detail showing the key performance metrics that were captured on the Cisco UCS host blades during the single server testing to determine the Recommended Maximum Workload per host server. The single server testing comprised of 200 MCS Single-session OS sessions, 200 PVS Single-session OS sessions and 256 PVS Multi-session OS sessions. The Full Scale (8 nodes) Workload Testing comprised of 1400 MCS Single-session OS sessions. 1400 PVS Single-session OS sessions, 1800 MCS Multi-session OS sessions.

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