Foglight for Virtual Desktops

Virtual Desktop Diagnostics — Simplified

Foglight for Virtual Desktops brings powerful diagnostics and rich visualization to Quest’s market-leading vWorkspace solution. Built on Quest’s popular and industry-proven Foglight® monitoring platform, Foglight for Virtual Desktops monitors Quest vWorkspace-hosted VDI and terminal server/Remote Desktop Session Host (TS/RDSH) implementations providing IT with real-time and historical data needed to keep them running at peak performance. It goes well beyond merely alerting you to problems — it also provides diagnostics and analytics so you can identify and resolve issues before they impact users.

Foglight for Virtual Desktops provides critical insight into:
  • Users & Sessions
  • Terminal Servers & Applications
  • Virtual desktops
  • Connection brokers
  • Web access servers
  • Secure gateways
  • Profile servers
  • Print servers
  • Broker databases

Auto-Discovery Virtual Desktop Environment – Drastically reduces the time-to-value by auto-discovering virtual machines (VMs), terminal server/RDSH farms, broker infrastructure and more. This automation reduces configuration costs and minimizes the risk and cost of human error.

Performance Overview - Quickly identifies problems within the virtual desktop environment, enabling you to focus attention on problem areas. This detailed overview accelerates diagnosis and resolution with clear, high-level visual representations, include color-coding and movements. Rich animations highlight the availability and resource consumption of all major components in your virtual desktop infrastructure – including the brokers, VDI & Terminal Servers. Detailed hypervisor resource consumption is also shown.

Out-of-the-Box Alerts – Accelerates the mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of performance issues with real-time alerts. Detailed alarms help you accurately diagnose the root cause of problems by identifying them as soon as they occur, and alerting you to how many people are affected. 

User Resource Investigation - Quickly determine which users are impacted by performance problems as well as which terminal servers or VMs are underutilized. 

Application & Session Monitoring – View which terminal server applications are in use – and by which users.  See the resources used by each application. Reduce the time and effort required to resolve resource bottlenecks.

VDI Performance and User Diagnostics – See which users are logged into which VDIs, how long they’ve been logged in, what their status is, what their resource consumption is, and more. You’ll be able to solve help desk issues more quickly and with greater end-user satisfaction.

System Center Integration - Improve customer service, as well as communication between the IT help desk and the desktop administration teams. Alerts from Foglight for Virtual Desktops integrate into System Center Operations Manager to ensure visibility using Enterprise System Management (ESM) tools.

System Requirements

vWorkspace:
  • 7.2
  • 7.2 MR1
  • 7.5
OS:
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 64-bit
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 64-bit
CPU 2-way 2.4 GHz CPUs—one of the following:
  • 1 dual core
  • 2 single core
  • 4 single core
RAM 12 GB in total:
  • 6 GB for Management Server (4GB for Heap, 2GB for Java Virtual Machine)
  • 4 GB for database repository
  • 2 GB for operating system
Storage
  • 120 GB, 10,000 RPM hard disk or better
Browser Support
  • Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9
  • Firefox 3.6.26
  • Firefox 10.0.2
  • Safari 5.1.3 (supported on Mac OS X only)
  • Chrome 17.0.963.46

Language Supported:

  • US English

View a brief Foglight for Virtual Desktops demo given by Hugh McEvoy, Manager Software Development, at BriForum Chicago 2011

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