The challenge A large Dutch hospital (over 4,000 employees and volunteers) selected, and planned to completely move to, a new Electronic Patient Records (EPR) application. For the desired flexibility of the workplaces and the safety of sensitive patient records, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was chosen. The hospital sets high standards on the performance of its systems and therefore chose solutions of established market leaders including Citrix XenDesktop, VMware (for the hypervisor) and HPE servers. To get the optimal ROI of the broad functionality offered, it was important to select the best possible hardware and software infrastructure. Furthermore, to gain end- user acceptance it was crucial that the end-user experience of the new environment would be as good (or better

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