A View solution may replace existing physical desktops and require a migration phase, or it may be a completely new solution to an organization. In either case, a proper assessment is required to understand how to scope hardware requirements, storage needs, and additional solutions that might be required (for example, a profile management solution). Many times, an organization that skips the Proof of Concept / pilot phase and goes right into the building and deploying of a VDI solution is able to meet the immediate tactical need, but then it often stalls when these factors scale because larger needs of the solution have not been fully planned out. It is extremely important to establish a baseline and run tests to validate your estimates for hardware, memory, storage, and networking, which will be required for the full-scale solution.

An assessment is used to collect the necessary information in order to design the solution properly. An assessment is the process of collecting both...