Dashboards for the VDI team
Chapter 5, Capacity Monitoring, explains that VDI scope is wider than server workload. Besides the IaaS component, you need to monitor Windows VMs and the VDI servers. VDI is more than vSphere + Horizon. Here are the common areas that you need to monitor:
Components to monitor in VMware Horizon
This results in more dashboards and the need for additional monitoring tools and adapters. Let's look at two common use cases in this book.
Is the DaaS serving the user well?
vRealize Operations provides in-Guest visibility and application-specific counters for VDI. This enables you to track performance at more points. In fact, there are 12 metrics you can check to ensure that your DaaS platform is indeed serving the VDI user well.
The article at http://virtual-red-dot.info/12-kpis-for-high-performance-vdi covers the details, so we will summarize them here.
The 12 metrics used as KPIs are as follows:
|
Component |
Metric |
Threshold |
|---|---|---|
|
CPU |
Contention |
2% |
|
CPU |
Workload |
70... |
