In the View Administrator > Monitoring > Events: I can see messages like:
User DOMAIN\user requested Pool win7-pool, allocated machine win7pro-133
But if I have an active user I will see a bunch of those. I can filter for each VD but that is so tedious to go through 211+ VDs I was hoping for something better.
As to your question about hardware limits: My VDs are linked clones, Windows 7 Pro, each with 2G RAM. My host servers are 2 procs, 512G RAM and my limits really are memory, I’m running about 35 VD per server with 6 servers, I use HA, DRS etc., and my servers are running about 62% memory usage and about 20% on the procs. If I do any maintenance and put one server in maintenance mode it disperses all the VDs to other servers then I’m running about 75% on memory and 30% on the procs and the users start to see a performance hit. I’m sure I could push it a bit further but my users are real sensitive to the performance so I want to keep things running well even if there is a failure or maintenance.
My experience so far is that the only change I see with concurrent users is processor performance, the host memory doesn’t seem to change with multiple users but the processor changes a lot, if I have 30 users running on server the processor can get up in the 30 to 35%. I have DRS set to fully automated and aggressive and I see a lot of movement under heavy loads trying to keep the servers balanced. Over all our users are very happy with performance, I get a lot of remarks about their experience.
I hope this answers your questions. I would love to see your script, would you be willing to share?
