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HP reference configuration for Citrix XenApp: 1,500 Microsoft Office 2003 users on HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades

This document illustrates multiple blades configurations using bare-metal configurations and converting them to virtualized ones.  The goal is to illustrate the value of virtualization and detail cost and associated power improvements.

There are three configurations discussed:

• Configuration 1: x64, bare-metal – Four HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades
• Configuration 2: x64, virtualized – Five HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades
• Configuration 3: x86, virtualized – Four HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades

But I think that even with just these two images they tell the story quite succinctly?

Figure 1. Reference configuration 1 – Four bare-metal HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades (x64) – 1,608 users

Figure 2. Reference configuration 2 – Five virtualized HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades (x64) – 1,700 users

written by dcaddick