Hi, I have a client that got a little scared with huricane sandy and is considering moving his servers into a datacenter. Before this we where getting ready to test vmware view 5, but it was going to be onsite.
If the client ends up deciding to go with moving to a datacenter, then that changes some things. So one of the ways to connect to there servers in the datacenter was to use virtual desktops. But this brought up performance questions over a wan.
So if they go with the datacenter, we would end up implementing vmware view in the datacenter. Then having them connect to the datacenter through a vpn tunnel to the clients location. Currenlty I would say there is about 80 desktops that will be needed here.
Has anyone had experience running that many VM's through a wan connection and if it will work? Or is 80 connections way to much?
Ive been reading up and some people have said that a typical windows 7 vm can use anywhere from 70k to 120k in bandwidth over a Wan if setup correctly. This is a vm thats only doing basic stuff like office, basic web browsing and a couple other non intensive applications. No flash video or anything like that. We would also be turning of the Aero glass viewing enhancements in windows 7.
Does that sound about right, 70k to 120k per vm?
If that is right then I would need internet bandwidth of about 8Megs. But when they talk about the 70k to 120k, are they talking the download or upload speed?
So would I be safe getting a 15 Meg pipe for this traffic? Again is the bandwidth needed more on the download or upload side, or both?
I realize this is probably hard to answer as there could be allot of factors.
Thanks
Mike