Sizing Citrix VDA Instances on Google Cloud Compute Engine

October 23, 2023

This document Citrix provides single instance scalability and economic guidance for enterprises that are deploying Citrix workloads (VDA’s) on Google Cloud Compute Engine. The focus is on hosted shared workloads (Windows Server VDA’s with RDSH role installed) running on Google Compute Engine VM instances. Scale testing was performed using a heavy, reproducible synthetic workload, with a goal of providing conservative yet actionable guidance.

The best end user experience was provided by the latest processors available on Google Cloud at the time of publication. These are available in the N2, N2D, and C2 instance families, and leverage Intel’s Cascade Lake and AMD’s Milan and Rome processors.

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