Hardware recommendations

To achieve good performance with your MultiPoint Services system under various loads, use the guidelines in the following table when you are
planning and testing your system. These are the basic requirements forMultiPoint Services . The actual configuration sizing depends on your
system configuration, the workload you are running, and the hardware capability. You should always validate by testing your applications and
hardware.

Note

2C = 2 cores, 4C = 4 cores, 6C = 6 cores, MT = multithreading. Processor speed should be at least 2.0 gigahertz (GHz).

Minimum recommended hardware for running default MultiPoint Server stations

Application Scenario Up to 5 Stations 6-8 Stations 9-12 Stations 13-16 Stations 17-20 Stations 21-24 Stations
Productivity
CPU: 4C+MT or
CPU: 2C CPU: 2C CPU: 4C CPU: 4C CPU: 6C+MT
6C
Office, web browsing,
line-of-business RAM: 2 GB RAM: 4 GB RAM: 6 GB RAM: 8 GB RAM: 12 GB
RAM: 10 GB
applications
Mixed
CPU: 4C+MT or
Office, web browsing, CPU: 2C CPU: 2C CPU: 4C CPU: 6C+MT CPU: 6C+MT
6C
line-of-business
applications, and RAM: 2 GB RAM: 4 GB RAM: 6 GB RAM: 10 GB RAM: 12 GB
RAM: 8 GB
occasional video use
by some users
Video intensive
CPU: 16C+MT
Office, web browsing, CPU: 20C+MT
line-of-business
RAM: 10 GB
applications, and CPU: 4C+MT CPU: 6C+MT CPU: 8C+MT CPU: 12C+MT RAM: 12 GB
frequent video use by
- Thin Client:
all users Note: Video RAM: 2 GB RAM: 4 GB RAM: 6 GB RAM: 8 GB - Thin Client: RemoteFX
RemoteFX
testing was performed - USB video not
- USB video not
using 360p H.264 recommended
recommended
video at native
resolution.
Minimum recommended hardware for running full Windows 10 virtual desktops

Running a full virtual operating system instance for each station is more compute resource-intensive than running the default MultiPoint desktop
sessions, so the host hardware requirements per station are higher:

1. CPU: 1 core or thread per station

2. Solid State Drive (SSD)
1. Capacity >= 20GB per station + 40GB for the WMS host operating system
2. Random Read/Write IOPS >= 3K per station
3. RAM >= 2GB per station + 2GB for the WMS host operating system

BIOS CPU setting has been configured to enable virtualization – Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)