VDI Performance Assessment

VDI Performance
Assessment
Moving
Desktop Virtualization
from Test to Best
Contact eG: webinar@eginnovations.com

Presenters
Bala Vaidhinathan (eG Innovations)
Rick Ruskin (eG Innovations)

About eG Innovations
 eG Innovations helps you to dramatically simplify, accelerate,
and optimize performance management across mission-critical
virtual, cloud and physical IT environments
Performance Assurance  Only eG Innovations award-winning root-cause diagnosis
Made Easy 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

Worldwide New York, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin,
Locations Singapore, London, Chennai
Customers Over 1,000 customers worldwide
Certifications &
Sample Awards

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Customer Success


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

Rick Ruskin
Vice President Sales
eG Innovations
Rick.Ruskin@eginnovations.com


Agenda
 VDI Performance Challenges
 VDI Performance Assessment
vs. Desktop Assessment
 Assessment Deliverables
 Assessment Benefits
 Q&A


The VDI Adoption Stages

VDI VDI VDI VDI
Test Pilot Production Acceleration
- Deploy on - A few hundred - Thousands
a few dozen desktops of desktops - 100,000
desktops - Test - Decide desktops
- Typically technology between VDI, - Reap the
use free feasibility XenApp, others benefits of VDI
licenses - Small - Expect to see - VDI is mission
(VMware, workgroup benefits of VDI critical
Citrix, …) rollout including ROI


The Broken VDI Deployment Cycle
Assess
Why VDI Desktops
Rollouts Fail

- Much focus on early stages Maintain Plan
and on desktop layer
- Over-confidence in VDI
performance
- Performance issues are
re-mediated after the fact
Re-
- No visibility into infrastructure Design
Mediate
- Fixing performance issues
downstream is costly
& it doesn’t scale Deploy


VDI Performance Challenges
User Frustration

IT Talent
“Traditional management Shortage
tools and desktop
assessments fail to
VDI High
address today’s VDI
Performance
performance challenges: Challenges downtime
too complex, too slow,
too costly, too
fragmented, too manual.” Complexity &
Fragmentation

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 Assessments by Stage
Virtual Desktop VDI Performance Assessment
Assessment (end-to-end)

VDI VDI VDI VDI
Test Pilot Production Acceleration


Virtual Desktop Assessment vs.
VDI Performance Assessment
Virtual Desktop Assessment VDI Performance Assessment
Typically, when you are about to start Throughout the life span of your virtual
desktop virtualization (focus: pre- desktop deployment (focus: performance
deployment planning) – often free assurance and remediation, right-sizing)
Benchmark usage of physical desktops in Benchmark your virtual desktop
the enterprise infrastructure – every layer, every tier

Identify popular desktop applications, usage Baseline current usage patterns and trends
patterns , power on times of your infrastructure (focus beyond the
desktop)
Identify which desktops can be virtualized, Identify where your performance
which cannot 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.

with eG Perform

Bala Vaidhinathan
CTO
eG Innovations
Bala@eginnovations.com


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
 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
Deploy • Metrics
Review
• Scope • Performance • Patterns • Audit Report
• Systems Assurance • Benchmarks • Analysis
Platform • Bottlenecks
Plan Analyze

VDI Assessments delivered by
eG partners & eG Professional Services


VDI Performance Assessment w/ eG Enterprise
End User Service Infrastructure
Experience Performance Performance

Trading
Connection
Brokers Storage
Accounting

Online
Banking Network
Applications
Patient
records

... Virtualization
Profile Servers

User
Experience Total
eG Enterprise Right-Sizing
& Capacity
Management Automated Planning
Performance
Pre-emptive Diagnosis
Visibility Alerting


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.


Isolate Performance Issues

Other affected Layers

Root-cause Layer

The actual problem
within the layer

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


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

Top Users based
on activity and
impact on
resources

Know usage patterns and trends for effective capacity planning.


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


Automatic Baselining

Baseline

Actual Metric

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


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.


Deep Visibility Into Sessions

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 

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


VDI Performance Assessment Benefits
User Satisfaction

IT Productivity

“Dramatically simplify and
accelerate VDI performance Higher
VDI
management. Performance service
Deliver peak performance, Assurance uptime
user satisfaction and ROI.”

Simplicity

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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www.eginnovations.com/vdi-assessment

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webinar@eginnovations.com

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