Desktop Virtualization

Virtualized desktops hold many potential benefits for your organization, including improved manageability, increased security and lower costs. Desktop virtualization, or VDI, involves a layered infrastructure for delivery of user desktops and applications, and it changes the set of performance problems that can occur, especially as organizations scale to hundreds or thousands of virtual desktop users. Connectivity and VDI performance problems can lead to project slow-downs or project failures if not handled effectively.

Continuous virtual desktop (VDI) monitoring during and after deployment helps spot potential VDI performance problems, and it allows administrators to diagnose performance issues reported by end users. Additional capabilities let administrators respond automatically to VDI performance issues and control activity for better and more consistent virtual desktop performance. Existing virtual desktop performance monitoring and management systems only see part of the picture, and lack features for response and control.

vmSight Virtual Desktop (VDI) Performance Monitoring and Management

vmSight gives you a new level of visibility into user and application activity and lets you monitor all parts of the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) from the terminal to back-end servers to the SAN. That means you can more easily spot and diagnose performance problems for virtualized desktops.

vmSight uses patented Connector ID technology to identify and track terminals and desktops and users, combined with a highly efficient monitoring and data collection system inside virtual desktops and at the virtual network layer to give you the deeper data you need without compromising the efficiency of your virtual environment. The virtual desktop management components provide dashboards, reports and alerts that allow you to identify bottlenecks before they become a problem, and quickly solve problems that do occur. vmSight also provides complete response and control capabilities to automate administrative tasks and to block or throttle user activity to ensure good virtual desktop performance.

What’s more, vmSight’s Connector ID technology enables each virtualized desktop with "caller ID" capabilities that gives an irrefutable, scalable and efficient means to gather detailed information on user access to and from virtual desktops and individual applications, and allows you to easily identify the users who are experiencing or causing system problems. Using this information generates compliance reporting and lets administrators ensure strict compliance for specific government or commercial consumer protection regulations such as HIPAA, PCI or GLBA. Use vmSight to:

• Locate a user’s VM(s) and applications
• Identify application dependencies
• Measure end user experience for each desktop
• Get key application performance indicators for users, applications, VMs, network and SAN
• Validate security and regulatory compliance
• Control VM sprawl
• Block unauthorized or costly application activity
• Automatically adjust VMs in reaction to performance problems