vmSight Virtual Desktop (VDI) and Virtual Application Assessment and Profiling

vmSight’s integrated product suite provides assessment and profiling for virtual desktops (VDI) and virtualized applications. It gives administrators user and application visibility to successfully plan and deploy VDI. vmSight provides end-to-end VDI profiling across the physical and virtual, from the terminal down to the SAN. Patented Connector ID technology provides user tracking for real-time data collection of all user activity. vmSight’s scalable and high-performance architecture enables continuous data collection with reporting and alerting for enterprise VDI deployments.

Desktop virtualization involves a layered infrastructure for delivery of user desktops and applications, and it changes the set of performance and reliability problems that can occur. Existing management systems only provide part of the picture. End-to-end data collection allows you to assess existing desktops and plan for VDI. Dashboards, reports and alerts allow you to identify issues before they become a problem, and quickly solve problems that do occur.

Driven by the promises to lower cost, administrators increasingly deploy application virtualization solutions. However, those deployments add new management challenges and risks. vmSight gives administrators full visibility into individual user and application activity on and through application virtualization platforms to ensure proper configuration and good end user experience.

Organizations look to service providers for Desktops-as-a-Service to gain the cost savings of virtual desktops quickly without extensive startup costs. The service provider administrators need continuous profiling to spot potential problems, and to diagnose issues reported by end users. vmSight gives Desktops-as-a-Service providers full visibility into user and application activity on virtualized desktops, so they can ensure proper functioning of all parts of the virtual desktop infrastructure from the terminal to back-end servers to the SAN—allowing them to more easily spot and diagnose problems and ensure service levels for their customers.

Excess virtual machines (VMs) consume valuable resources that have real costs. vmSight allows VDI administrators to automatically discover the users and applications on each VM, to spot rogue or unidentified VMs and to identify under-utilized or unused VMs. The vmSight solution quickly plugs-in to the virtual environment, and it gives administrators the user and application visibility needed to control VM sprawl.

vmSight contains pre-defined packages of compliance reports and dashboards for specific regulations such as PCI, HIPAA and GLBA. Additionally, the vmSight solution has the ability to schedule report delivery and reminders and to create and track approval workflow processes further ensuring the review of compliance information by appointed security auditors.

Managed service providers and Software-as-a-Service providers implement virtualization to reduce costs and increase manageability of their cloud computing environments. Administrators need continuous profiling to spot potential problems, and to diagnose issues reported by end users. vmSight gives cloud computing providers full visibility into user and application activity in virtualized environments, with end-to-end data collection, allowing them to more easily spot and diagnose problems and ensure the service levels and reliability of their applications.