Performance of HP ProLiant BL465c G7 with AMD Opteron processor Model 6174 (2.2 GHz) in a 32-bit virtualized HP SBC environment
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA2-0763ENW.pdf
XenApp Server are used as “working horses in the datacenter”. It is important to identify bottlenecks in the VM and Hypervisor. A good document from Microsoft is “Recognizing a Processor Bottleneck”
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938609.aspx
A good backgrounder for Hyper-Threading Technology from Microsoft :
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/7/7/577a5684-8a83-43ae-9272-ff260a9c20e2/Hyper-thread_Windows.doc
Optimizing Citrix Presentation Server with VMware ESX Server
http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/med0115.pdf
Citrix and VMware “How These Technologies Work Together”
http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/tac9728.pdf
VMGuru “Best Practices XenApp on vSphere”
http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2009/12/best-practices-xenapp-on-vsphere/