#199660 - 2010-08-26 02:52 PM
Re: bandwidth for virtual desktops
[Re: BradV]
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Richard H.
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The correct answer is of course, it depends.
- What protocol is going to be uses to connect to the virtual workstation?
- What size desktop are they going to use?
- What colour depth?
- What applications? A video editing / playback task is going to create significantly more traffic than say program code compilation or editing a Word document.
- How are their files presented? Is it over the same NIC or dedicated? Are they going to be opening huge CAD files or similar?
- Where is the VMWare kernel / management traffic runnning? Dedicated NIC or shared?
Using RDP your traffic needs may be anywhwere between 30Kbps and 1Mbps, which may be fine depending on what other load is on the NIC
I know, more questions than answers
For more helpful answers you are probably better off asking on the VMWare community forums: http://communities.vmware.com/
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#199662 - 2010-08-26 03:15 PM
Re: bandwidth for virtual desktops
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BradV
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Thanks Richard. It is all java and sybase development. No video or huge CAD files. The vmware will reside on the two servers. I'm assuming all connectivity is going through a single NIC. I'll have to dig in and get more answers.
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