Patent ID: 8751654

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: mimicking, by a remoting agent installed on a computing device, host operations of a host remoting agent that are necessary to direct graphics data to a client at a remote site, wherein the computing device includes a graphics unit to simulate the host operations locally at the computing device without directing the graphics data to the client at the remote site; measuring, by the remoting agent, a graphics load incurred by the host operations at the computing device to determine a capacity of a virtual desktop system prior to deployment of the virtual desktop system on a host system, wherein the host system includes a set of one or more servers to run one or more virtual machines, and wherein at least one of the one or more virtual machines provides a virtual desktop for the client at the remote site; estimating a capacity of the virtual desktop system prior to deployment of the virtual desktop system on the host system based on the measured graphics load of the computing system; and estimating a capacity of the host system based on the estimated capacity of the virtual desktop system, wherein said estimating the capacity of the host system comprises calculating a number of virtual desktops that can be run on the host system based on the estimated capacity of the virtual desktop system.