THE CHALLENGE The world’s largest privately-held insurance brokerage firm was running Citrix Virtual Desktops, hosted on VMware vSphere 6.5 and supporting approximately 4,500 users. They wanted to move from a traditional three- tier data center architecture to hyper-converged infrastructure. Testing the new configuration was critical to their business continuity. They needed to ensure the new infrastructure could handle their full user capacity, at full load. Given the new architecture, the customer needed to validate performance and density before migrating to production virtual desktops. The legacy data center consisted of Cisco UCS B Series Blades for computing and an all-flash storage array for storage. Additionally, the performance in the existing production environment had

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