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5.10.1 Physical Network Connectivity ........................................................ 31
6 End-User Workload Characterization ................................................ 32
6.1 Characterization Overview .................................................................... 32
6.1.1 Basic Workload Characterization ...................................................... 32
6.1.2 Standard Workload Characterization .................................................. 32
6.1.3 Premium Workload Characterization .................................................. 33
6.2 Workload Characterization Testing Details ................................................. 34
7 Performance and Testing .............................................................. 35
7.1 Load Generation and Monitoring ............................................................. 35
7.1.1 Login VSI – Login Consultants ........................................................... 35
7.1.2 Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX ...................................................... 35
7.1 Testing Summary ................................................................................ 36
7.1.1 End User Experience Testing Summary ............................................... 36
7.2 Testing ............................................................................................ 37
7.2.1 Testing Methodology ..................................................................... 37
7.2.2 User Workloads ............................................................................ 37
7.2.3 Standard Workload ....................................................................... 37
7.3 Testing Results – Standard Configuration ................................................... 38
7.3.1 Hyper-V 2008 R2 .......................................................................... 38
7.3.2 XenServer 6.0.2 ........................................................................... 46
7.3.3 Hyper-V ..................................................................................... 52
7.3.4 XenServer 6.0.2 ........................................................................... 59
8 High Availability ......................................................................... 67
8.1 DVS Simplified Appliance Resiliency ......................................................... 67
9 Customer Provided Stack Components .............................................. 68
9.1 Customer Provided Switching Requirements ............................................... 68
10 Conclusion ............................................................................... 69
11 Acknowledgements .................................................................... 70
