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There are several important factors that should be considered in the EUC infrastructure
design process. By using these factors along with the organization's requirements, one
is better able to consider what the architecture alternatives are going to be. The following
factors should be considered when evaluating architecture alternatives and vendor
options on EUC projects:
• Entry point
• Scalability
• Performance
• Monitoring
• Capacity
Entry Point
The entry or starting point for infrastructure can often be a make-or-break decision
on a project. This is how much infrastructure and cost it will take for an organization
to start the application or desktop virtualization and delivery deployment based on
different starting point sizes.
If the project is planned to reach 10,000 users when fully deployed with the starting
deployment phase of 5,000 users, the organization is probably less inclined to be
shocked by starting costs. The reasoning is that depending on the type of infrastructure
that is selected, the per-user cost may not begin to make sense until you have deployed
a few thousand users.
Architectural
Principles
