Companies looking for advantages of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) must look carefully at cost. Principled Technologies, compared Microsoft Windows 7 virtual!desktops hosted on VMware Horizon View 5.2 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.6.Hosted on the same physical hardware resources and using similar image rendering settings, they conducted scale testing with the Login VSI medium workload.
They found that VMware Horizon View 5.2 supported 174 Microsoft Windows 7 virtual desktop sessions at a cost per user of $483 Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 supported 175 sessions at a cost of $820 per user.
These findings mean that VMware Horizon View 5.2 delivered comparable density at a 41.1 percent lower cost per user,making it an excellent choice for a company that wants to deliver a high]quality experience to users at an excellent price.
