This document summarizes a webinar about optimizing Windows virtual desktop deployments. It discusses tools for creating optimized VDI images, such as the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and PS Image Factory. It also covers performing optimizations on images, assessing performance, and how changes to images can impact performance. The full loop analysis of creating, deploying, and improving images over time is presented. Presenters are from eG Innovations and Microsoft and discuss performance challenges and assuring performance for VDI.

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Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Windows
Virtual Desktop Deployments
Jeff Stokes, Senior Content Developer
Microsoft
jeff.stokes@Microsoft.com
Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO
eG Innovations
bala@eginnovations.com

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Moderator
Christine Ackley
Director of Marketing Operations
eG Innovations
Christine.Ackley@eginnovations.com

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Logistics
 Please submit your questions at any time during the
webinar using the questions panel on the
GoToWebinar client.
 This webinar is being recorded. You will receive a
link to the recording in a few days.
 A copy of this presentation is posted on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/eginnovations/

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Today’s Presenters
Bala Vaidhinathan
CTO
eG Innovations
bala@eginnovations.com
Jeff Stokes
Senior Content Developer
Microsoft
jeff.stokes@Microsoft.com
PIC TO
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Agenda
• VDI image creation 101
– Tools for the image creation tool belt
• Optimization
– How and Why
• Performance implications of change and scope
creep
– Full loop analysis

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VDI Image Creation 101
Microsoft
Deployment Toolkit
PS Image
Factory
Base Image
Optimizations

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Performance Tools
Comprehensive
Tools Suite
Windows
Assessment
Services
Manual Testing

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Optimization

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Impact of Change on the Image
Full Loop Analysis
Create Image
Baseline Image
Deploy Image
Track Incidents
Change/Improve
Image

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VDI Performance Challenges

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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.”

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Assess
Desktops
Plan
Design
Deploy
Re-
Mediate
Maintain
Why Do VDI Projects Stall?
Why VDI
Rollouts Stall
- 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

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Virtual Desktops
Endpoints | User Workspace
Management | Desktop Mgmt
Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure
Connection Brokers | Provisioning Servers
Profile Servers | Storage | Network | Apps
 Complexity
 Investment
 Performance
impact
 Technology
choices
 Opportunities
for Problems
20%
80%

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VDI Management Today
Profile Server
Network
User Virtual Desktops
on VMs
Connection
Broker
vCenter
Active
Directory
on ESX
Oracle License Server
Provisioning
Server
SAN
Switch
Isolated Management Tools
A single failure can bring down the entire service – but where is the root cause?
Each VDI element has its own dedicated management tool, but the service
owner has no correlated performance visibility across the VDI environment.

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Network Web on
ESX
Active Directory
SQL
XenApp on
VMware ESX
ZDC on
VMware ESX
License Server
Profile Server
Enterprise
Apps
vCenter
Oracle
Client
Where is the Root-Cause?
SAN
Switch
What is the root cause of the service problem?
Network? VMware? AD? SQL? Storage? Profile Server?

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eG Performance Assurance
for VDI

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Comcast Gets VDI
Performance Assurance
• Challenge: How to scale from ZERO to
10,000 VDI users in one year
– Client performed considerable research, and understood that through
the roll-out, performance issues will occur. Challenge was to have VDI
performance platform in place that would instantaneously show root
cause and allow client to remediate issues quickly, before users are
impacted.
• Solution: eG Performance Management for VDI
– By implementing eG, client has immediately been able to see the Root
Cause of the inevitable User Experience issues.
– Issues have occurred relative to database, application, and networks, but
the eG Solution immediately pointed the issues, and the scale out of VDI
users has proceeded virtually unimpeded.

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VDI Performance Assurance with eG
Virtualization
Desktop
Brokers
and
Support
Systems
Performance
management for VDI is
extremely unique as you
need a solution that
combines multiple
different performance
management
methodologies
VDI

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VDI Performance Assurance 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

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Unmatched Performance Visibility
Cloud
Private, Hybrid,
Public
Virtual
VMware, Citrix,
Microsoft, IBM,
Red Hat, Solaris
Physical
X86, SPARC,
PARISC, RS6000
Desktop Apps Storage Network Compute
!
Complete, correlated visibility beyond basic health.
Actionable insight into service performance & dependencies.

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
Monitor
VDI Service,
not Silos

Deep
Visibility
into
Sessions
VDI Performance Assurance Best Practices

Right-Size
for Great
ROI

Monitor
Users,
Not Just
VMs

Preemptive
Detection
& Alerting

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Assess
Design
Deploy
Maintain
Performance Management with eG for
Virtual Desktop Success
Performance
Lessons
- Consider inter-
desktop dependencies
from the beginning
- Mitigate risk of VDI
failure downstream
- Process vs costly
ad-hoc fixes
- Ensure scalability
& deliver ROI
Performance
Management
Plan

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VDI Imaging Tools & Scripts
• Windows Assessment Toolkit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windows/hardware/dn923543(v=vs.85).aspx
• Windows Performance Toolkit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windows/hardware/dn927310(v=vs.85).aspx
• Jeffs Library of previous content: https://docs.com/jeff-stokes/7309/jeffs-presentations
• Windows 8 VDI Script: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/09/hot-off-
the-presses-get-it-now-the-windows-8-vdi-optimization-script-courtesy-of-pfe.aspx
• Windows 7 VDI Script: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2012/10/15/the-
microsoft-premier-field-engineer-pfe-view-on-virtual-desktop-vdi-density.aspx
• Microsoft 2000 seat VDI Deployment:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2013/05/22/2000-seat-vdi-deployment-
benchmark.aspx
• RemoteFX Configuration Guide:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16652.remotefx-vgpu-setup-and-
configuration-guide-for-windows-server-2012.aspx
• Manual tools link: http://www.windowsperf.com/blog/2015/2/20/vdi-workshop-notes-as-
promised
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