{"id":9923,"date":"2009-10-16T06:56:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2009-10-16T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"microsoft-vdi-sizing-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9923","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft VDI Sizing Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3f5f040-ab7b-4ec6-9ed3-1698105510ad&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> the Remote Desktop Load Simulation tools to help you size your VDI deployments.\u00a0 This release is due to customer requests.\u00a0 The responsible teams are very web connected so they\u2019re interested in getting genuine feedback (use <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connect<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p><a><\/a><em>\u201cThe Remote Desktop Load Simulation toolset is used for server capacity planning and performance\/scalability analysis.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>In a server-based computing environment, all application execution and data processing occur on the server. 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