Foglight for Virtual Desktops

VDI and TS/RDSH Diagnostics Simplified

Quest® Foglight® for Virtual Desktops brings powerful diagnostics and rich visualization to market-leading Quest® Workspace™ Desktop Virtualization (formerly vWorkspace). Built on Quest’s popular and industry-proven Foglight® monitoring platform, Foglight for Virtual Desktops monitors Desktop Virtualization-hosted VDI and TS/RDSH implementations providing IT with the real-time and historical data needed to keep these deployments running at peak performance. Foglight for Virtual Desktops  goes well beyond merely alerting you to problems — it also provides diagnostics and analytics so you can identify and resolve VDI and TS/RDSH 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

Features

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.

Sys Reqs

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

Videos

View a brief Foglight for Virtual Desktops demo at BriForum Chicago 2011

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Screenshots

Welcome Screen

Keep all monitoring, diagnostics and configurations needs at your fingertips with an intuitive layout.

At-a-Glance Dashboard

Quickly view status of connectivity, brokers, servers, terminal server farms, and VDI/Virtual Desktop Farms. Easily drill down by clicking areas of interest.

Drill down

Easily identify issues and determine the root cause of issues.

Terminal Servers

See everything you need to know about terminal servers: where they are located, their availability and usage, resource consumption, which are most loaded, and users logged into each terminal server.

Virtual Desktops

Identify virtual desktops that are powered up, invalid, powered down and suspended. See which desktops are in use, not in use and those with issues.

Quickly Identify Affected Users

Easily prioritize issues by seeing which problems impact the greatest number of users, and who those users are, allowing you to fix the problems that affect the most people first.

View By User

Drill into a particular user's session and identify status and issues at a glance.

Terminal Server Explorer

See metrics graphed over time on the list of services, including users logged in, the applications processes that are running and their resource consumption.

Session Explorer

See which application processes are being used in the session along with their resource consumption.

Application Explorer

Identify who is using the application and what resources each user is consuming.

VDI Explorer

Keep track of which user was logged in and when, the status of the virtual desktop, the end point and the virtual desktop configurations.