Benchmarking and User Types in Virtual Desktop Infrastructures

There are many different benchmarks and user types available to evaluate virtual desktop infrastructure solutions. Benchmarks as well as user types are not directly comparable, because they are not uniformly defined. Therefore, the existing benchmarks and user types are analyzed. Benchmarks are analyzed and discussed with regard to the appropriate purpose and structured into the proposed scheme. Existing user types are analyzed with regard to their properties, workloads and complexity. Hence, a classification scheme is proposed. The adaption of both proposed schemes is discussed for the workstation based virtual desktop infrastructure approach.