The Side Channel Aware scheduler was not enabled.

The Hypervisor we used was vSphere 6.7 Update 3.

The following parameters apply to this research: The three other Nutanix nodes in the cluster provide the test host with storage through an NFS-mount.

2x CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 5220, 18 cores 2.20GHz.

The host for the desktops has the following specifications: This research has taken place on the Nutanix lab environment.

Then we compare these results to Windows 10 build 1809 fully updated. Therefore it would be interesting to see what the performance differences are between Windows 7 SP1 without updates versus Windows 7 SP1 that is fully updated. We’ve also seen that vulnerability mitigations for Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF, and MDS also have an impact. We’ve already seen that with every new feature release of Windows 10, there is an impact on user density and application response times. For those environments, it’s interesting to know what the performance impact will be when they migrate to Windows 10. Nonetheless, there are still (VDI) environments that haven’t been upgraded to Windows 10 (or 8) and are still running Windows 7. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to you, as Microsoft has been warning for this for the past couple of years: On January 14 2020, support will end for Windows 7. What would the impact on performance be if you migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 10? In this research, we investigated the impact on performance when comparing Windows 7 and Windows 10 in a VDI-context. Windows 7 is almost end of support but still, there are VDI environments running Windows 7.

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