Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or VDI is the name given to a collection of technologies and processes that dramatically extend the concept of a remote desktop. The benefit of VDI is to address the spiraling costs of managing large numbers of physical desktops across an enterprise, without compromising the service users of those desktops enjoy.
In order to capture the maximum cash benefit from deploying VDI, while ensuring the user community has an outstanding experience in moving to a virtual infrastructure, an organization must thoroughly understand its software and hardware usage profile ahead of the implementation of VDI. This task, although sounds trivial, can be quite the challenge.
In addition, by focusing on application use and the impact on underlying desktop hardware utilization, it is possible to build up an accurate profile of those desktops that can be most easily migrated to a virtual environment. Information on utilization within the existing physical estate ensures that server hardware specifications are capable of supporting the migrated workload, yet are not over specified.
Scalable’s Survey product has been designed to analyze the intensity and profile of desktop hardware and software usage. Trying to successfully plan for a migration from a physical to virtual desktop infrastructure, without knowing the extent to which the physical environment is being used prior to the migration, is like trying to size an ERP system without knowing how many people will use it.
No other technology provides the depth and focus on desktop hardware and software asset utilization as Survey.
By aggregating this information from the community of users, targeted for migration to VDI, it is possible to accurately build up a picture of what their concurrent usage will be when VDI is implemented. This information is essential if VDI is to be successful and cost-effective. The alternative outcome is almost certain to be an over-purchase of expensive network-access software licenses and poorly sized VDI servers.
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Benefits |
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1 Accurately determine the number of and type of desktop software licenses required to support the move to VDI. |
1 Ensure all opportunities for license fee savings, by moving to VDI, are fully captured. |
2 Monitor the acceptance of VDI in terms of application use under the VDI model and ensure license compliance. |
2 Shows in detail how well VDI is being exploited, whether any drift back to physical desktop use is occurring and the extent to which such drift creates a license compliance exposure. |
3 Analyzes the aggregate and concurrent intensity and profile of desktop hardware usage across the entire estate. Resource usage can be sub-divided by software application. |
3 Can be used to accurately determine the server hardware resource requirements of the virtual desktop infrastructure. Ensure that adequate resource is provisioned to maintain service, without the excess cost of over specification. |
Concurrent Application Use |
Aggregate CPU Usage |
