vdi performance assessment

VDI Performance Assessment Moving Desktop Virtualization from Test to Best

Presenters Bala Vaidhinathan (eG Innovations)

Rick Ruskin (eG Innovations)

Contact eG: [email protected]

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About eG Innovations

Performance Assurance

Made Easy

eG Innovations helps you to dramatically simplify, accelerate, and optimize performance management across mission-critical virtual, cloud and physical IT environments

Only eG Innovations award-winning root-cause diagnosis technology can automatically pinpoint performance issues by auto-correlating the user’s service experience with the underlying infrastructure and application components

Deliver exceptional performance, user productivity, and ROI

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Customers Over 1,000 customers worldwide

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Customer Success

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Why Do VDI Rollouts Fail? (and what you can do about it)

Rick Ruskin Vice President Sales eG Innovations [email protected]


Agenda

VDI Performance Challenges

VDI Performance Assessment

vs. Desktop Assessment

Assessment Deliverables

Assessment Benefits

Q&A


VDI Test

- Deploy on a few dozen desktops

- Typically use free licenses (VMware, Citrix, …)

VDI Pilot

- A few hundred desktops

- Test technology feasibility

- Small workgroup rollout

VDI Production

- Thousands of desktops

- Decide between VDI, XenApp, others

- Expect to see benefits of VDI including ROI

VDI Acceleration

- 100,000 desktops

- Reap the benefits of VDI

- VDI is mission critical

The VDI Adoption Stages


Assess Desktops

Plan

Design

Deploy

Re-Mediate

Maintain

The Broken VDI Deployment Cycle

Why VDI Rollouts Fail

- Much focus on early stages and on desktop layer

- Over-confidence in VDI performance

- Performance issues are re-mediated after the fact

- No visibility into infrastructure

- Fixing performance issues downstream is costly & it doesn’t scale


“Traditional management tools and desktop assessments fail to address today’s VDI

performance challenges: too complex, too slow,

too costly, too fragmented, too manual.”



IT Talent Shortage

High downtime

Complexity & Fragmentation

User Frustration

Cost overrun


VDI Performance Pain

50% of all desktop

virtualization projects

stall or fail for 2 reasons:

1) Unacceptable End User Performance

2) Cost Overruns

“Traditional management tools and desktop assessments are failing to

deliver VDI performance, user acceptance and scalability.”


Audience Poll

What is your biggest VDI pain?

– User acceptance / user experience

– Cost control / ROI

– Performance issues

– Deployment complexity

– Lack of VDI management tools

– VDI expertise

– other


VDI Test

VDI Pilot

VDI

Production

VDI

Acceleration

VDI Assessments by Stage

Virtual Desktop Assessment

VDI Performance Assessment (end-to-end)


Virtual Desktop Assessment vs. VDI Performance Assessment

Virtual Desktop Assessment VDI Performance Assessment

Typically, when you are about to start desktop virtualization (focus: pre-deployment planning) – often free

Throughout the life span of your virtual desktop deployment (focus: performance assurance and remediation, right-sizing)

Benchmark usage of physical desktops in the enterprise

Benchmark your virtual desktop infrastructure – every layer, every tier

Identify popular desktop applications, usage patterns , power on times

Baseline current usage patterns and trends of your infrastructure (focus beyond the desktop)

Identify which desktops can be virtualized, which cannot

Identify where your performance bottlenecks lie in the VDI infrastructure and how you can scale your rollouts, ensuring ROI

VDI Performance Assessments and Desktop Assessments solve different problems. They are complementary – not competing.


VDI Performance Assessment with eG Perform

Bala Vaidhinathan CTO eG Innovations [email protected]


WHAT: eG VDI Performance Assessment

Take your VDI from test to best

Designed to help companies overcome existing VDI performance and cost challenges and mitigate the risk of future problems

Overcome adoption issues and seamlessly scale up

Provides deep visibility – every VDI tier, every layer

Alerts, analytics, reports, baselines, insights, recommendations, optimization for VDI

Integrated with eG-on-Tap cloud-based performance management service

Offered by eG Innovations and its partners


WHO are Ideal Candidates for a VDI Performance Assessment

You are moving from pilot to deployment and want to mitigate risk of VDI failure downstream (from test to best)

You are already in production and need to remediate existing VDI performance and/or scalability issues (users are complaining)

You are stuck in the gap between pilot an production and cant scale due to bottlenecks

You want to optimize user experience and maximize infrastructure utilization while keeping ROI high


HOW: 4-Step VDI Performance Assessment

• Goals

• Scope

• Systems

Plan

• Performance Assurance Platform

Deploy • Metrics

• Patterns

• Benchmarks

Analyze

• Audit Report

• Analysis

• Bottlenecks

Review

VDI Assessments delivered by eG partners & eG Professional Services


VDI Performance Assessment w/ eG Enterprise

Automated Diagnosis

User Experience Management

Right-Sizing & Capacity Planning

Pre-emptive Alerting

Total Performance

Visibility

End User Experience

Storage

Connection Brokers

Profile Servers

Network

Applications

Virtualization

Infrastructure Performance

Service Performance

Online Banking

Accounting

Trading

Patient records

. . .

eG Enterprise


Assessment Deliverables

VDI Performance Assessment Reports:

– Enhance User Experience

– Total visibility into infrastructure and services

– Baseline VDI density, demand, usage and the infrastructure

– Identify performance stress points and user experience issues

– Identify capacity bottlenecks to VDI use and expansion

– In-depth visibility into user sessions and applications


VDI Infrastructure & Service Health

Know which tiers are working and which are not.

Root-cause

The effect of the problem

Deep visibility into every layer, every tier, & service-based auto-correlation enable rapid/accurate diagnosis of performance issues.


Root-cause Layer

Other affected Layers

Layer Model enables you to rapidly isolate and demarcate performance issues at different layers.

Isolate Performance Issues

The actual problem within the layer


Understand User Experience

Know how user experience is

impacted

Know when and where it is impacted


Understand User Latency

Top 10 Desktops based on latency

When you have user experience issues, is it due to Latency? And who is Impacted?


Understand User Behavior

Know usage patterns and trends for effective capacity planning.

Top Users based on activity and

impact on resources


Get More Out of Your VDI Investment

A few of the servers are handling most of

the sessions

Track user sessions on each server to identify performance bottlenecks


Understand Applications Usage

Understand application usage patterns and trends to effectively size the environment and maximize resources


Baseline

Actual Metric

Multi-level auto-baselining of the environment helps you automatically identify trends and pro-actively isolate performance issues.

Automatic Baselining


Event Analysis

Event analysis gives you a perspective of the type and frequency of Performance Issues in the VDI environment


Understand VM Sprawl

A few of the systems have not been powered on for over a month

Avoid wasted resources due to VM Sprawl and achieve a more efficient environment


Real-Time VDI Overview

CPU bottleneck identified

Isolate bottlenecks to growth in real-time


Understand Peak Utilization

Identify Peak demand and the time of demand


VDI Demand vs Consumption

Understanding Desktop Demand vs VDI infrastructure resource consumption during peak Demand


Know How to Invest Wisely

Memory bottleneck preventing addition of

more Desktops

Identify and resolve VDI bottlenecks and excess capacity and right-size your environment.


Assess Users, Not Just VMs

See performance issues at the user level so you can fix and right-size your VDI environment for user satisfaction.


CPU usage inside a

virtual desktop is high

Deep Visibility Into Sessions


The top CPU process is Windows Media Player. The user is watching a

movie

Deep Visibility Into Sessions

Accelerate problem resolution by understanding why a VM is consuming resources.


“Dramatically simplify and accelerate VDI performance

management. Deliver peak performance, user satisfaction and ROI.”

VDI Performance Assessment Benefits

VDI Performance

Assurance

IT Productivity

Higher service uptime

Simplicity

User Satisfaction

Cost control & ROI


Better ROI & Better Performance

20% more users per

physical server


What VDI Environments are Supported?

ESX Platform, VMware View, XenServer platform, XenDesktop

9+ virtualization platforms incl. Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Citrix, RHEV

150+ application components incl. application servers, databases, connection brokers, web servers, terminals, messaging, email, profile servers (incl. Citrix, RES, AppSense), enterprise applications and more

10+ operating systems Network, storage & computing hardware … and more (ask us)


Ask the Experts …

&


Let’s Talk Next Steps

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