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Nathanael Iversen, Director of Technical Marketing, Xangati
Our fifth tip talks about the need to have capability that looks across the silos and enables you to be proactive in management. When we look at these interactions, it’s important that we don’t just look at them one at a time - that is that a particular desktop is talking to a particular user and using 150K of bandwidth - it’s also important to know at the same point in time what usage level is going to the storage. What is the use of different application ports and protocols that may be contending with the desktop protocol. And, it’s important to see all of this information at once and that’s exactly what a Xangati dashboard provides.
Take a look at this diagram and consider the idea that any one of the items on the outside of this wheel could be placed at the center so that we could see the whole world from the perspective of a virtual desktop. We could see the perspective of the world from a storage array looking back at the desktops or at other servers. We could look at a particular protocol and see what devices were implementing or using that protocol. It’s this 360 degree visibility that actually enables you to traverse the whole virtual infrastructure and quickly spot problems in a proactive and meaningful way.
For example, if we put the virtual desktop in the center of the universe. We understand how it talks to other virtual machines, it’s back end storage and what network issues may be affecting its application delivery. On the other hand, we could just as easily put a protocol into the center of the world and understand how PCoIP is being affected by perhaps file sharing traffic going across the WAN or a large corporate video chat that is happening at the time. Similarly, we could put the storage into the center of the universe and understand how the desktops may be contending against a particular data store or how a large request by a particular user may actually be causing storage latency for other connected users.
Thanks for reading our blog series on the top 5 Tips for an Optimal VDI End-User Experience. We have one bonus VDI tip coming for you on Monday so, be sure to read on and not miss out!
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