Xangati

[edawg]

Hello-

I am wrapping up a small POC for VDI and getting ready to move into deployment on a much larger scale.  In the POC performance was not an issue because our hardware was overspecked for the amount of users we ended up putting on it.  My concern is I will experience random "my pc is slow" complaints as I start to ramp up my numbers.  I have been looking at Xangati as a possible tool I can use to proactively monitor and fix my entire VDI environment and was wondering if people have been using it.  If yes, do they like it and if no are there any other tools out there you would recommend I consider.

Thanks in advance...erik

[mittim12]

I have used the free version of Xangati before and thought the product was very cool.   I've also used Liquidware labs user performance product which I think is a great bang for your buck.    Hopefully others can share some feedback with other products.

[Sreejesh_D]

you can consider VMware vCenter Operations (VCOPS) too. Its in beta state now. VMware is coming with a specific adapter for VCOPS to monitor VMware view environment.

The beta binary is accessible at the following link.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/vcopsforview

Its compatible with VCOPS 5.0 Beta 3.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/vcops5

[petedr]

Thanks for mentioning the Liquidware Labs Stratusphere product.

Pete

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[gunnarb]

I've used both in production.  The Xangati appliance is simple to setup and gives you good graphing information.  The Stratsphere appliance is much more detailed (which is both good and bad) good becuase I want more detail, bad becuase it requires an Agent to get that detail.  But really they are both good products and I commend you for your forward thinking and making sure you get a product that allows you to keep tabs on what is happening in your environment.  A lot of deployments fail as they scale becuase they have no idea what good performance is and when they aren't meeting an SLA on that kind of performance in their VDI environments.

Gunnar

[edawg]

Thanks for all the helpful replies.  Just saw a demo on a monitoring tool from eg innovations.  Any thoughts from user communit on their View monitoring tools?

[gunnarb · Accepted solution]

Never heard of them but that doesn't mean anything.  If I were you I'd just make sure whomever you go with can monitor the PCoIP WMI Statistics that are in View 5.  Not many of the monitoring solutions do and these stats are exteremly helpful for someone like me to determine what an issue is.

Gunnar

[edawg]

Makes perfect sense.  Thanks for the PCoIP suggestion.

[hschulze]

Here is the VDI webinar you are referring to:

Top-5 Best Practices for Virtual Desktop Success

Join 451 Group & eG Innovations and learn how to deliver
VDI Performance Assurance, User Satisfaction, and ROI.
Watch Now: http://www.eginnovations.com/webinar/vdi

Too often, VDI project owners are surprised by production performance issues when everything worked just fine during the pilot. When VDI performance problems show up, how do you solve them without just throwing more hardware at the problem, and killing budgets and ROI in the process? And when a user calls about "slow applications", how do you pinpoint and fix the true service performance bottleneck: Is it the network? Profile server? Web? Desktop virtualization platform? Storage?

Watch the webinar and learn how to:

- Proactively manage your VDI service performance,

- Mitigate the risk of VDI failure during deployment and ramp-up,

- Right-size your VDI environment for maximum ROI, and

- Deliver on the ROI and user experience promise of your desktop transformation initiatives.

More information about eG Innovations: http://www.eginnovations.com  

Thanks,

Holger Schulze

Vice President Marketing

eG Innovations, Inc.

holger.schulze@eginnovations.com  

[AGratefulDad]

We use Xangati in our environment and it works for the data we are wanting to capture.

Could it be a little more involved? Sure, but that comes with other complications as well.

If you are looking for a very good metrics based VDI monitor, Xangati should be high on your list!

Not heard of EG Innovations, but forcing people to sign up to see a presentation you linked here is in poor taste.

Cheers!

[edawg]

Thanks for the information.  I appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback..