Benefits of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
The major gain for any organization which adopts virtualization strategy is major long-term budgetary savings.
Through virtualization, organizations can use cheaper hardware as terminals for multiple desktops which save money by reducing hardware, energy, licensing and maintenance costs. For end-users, virtualization provides an option of gaining access from any device to their personal computers. The shift from a traditional to a virtualized environment, however, can be expensive and organizations will not recognize their benefits immediately.
Users, with virtualization, can also access securely distributed enterprise applications through any remote client device. In case the network fails to serve the purpose as much as desired, then users of virtual apps and desktop computers can see its performance slackening, system hanging, and getting disconnected altogether. But when Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is deployed either in your own data center or remotely, all performance problems will be transferred to an IT team.
Although VDI is sometimes hosted on a local area network (LAN), it is accessed more often over a wide area network connection (WAN). Key VDI links can, however, fail when usage is at their peak and, therefore, they always need to be monitored.
Most users get disturbed if their desktops are performing poorly. Of all applications, VDI has one of the highest sensitivity ranks and its rate of success is directly related to the satisfaction index of a user.
It is the duty of the IT team to ensure that the network is in a fine condition before it is virtualized.
Even if providers of virtual software offer bandwidth requirements, it should be guaranteed by the network that bandwidth is available, even if its utilization is at a peak.
In order to ensure that VDI is being successfully deployed, certain measures have to be taken.
* IT team has to comprehend holistically the key links while the VDI's performance is being monitored uninterruptedly.
* It has to understand the measurement from the server to the connection of end users and have the capability to compare real-time versus the key performance indicators required by VDI services to function properly.
* It has to alert and report on network issues that adversely impact system and virtualized application performance has to be carried out for hands-on troubleshooting.
Some popular tools used to monitor VDI are Lakeside and Xangati. These are key for keeping tabs on the fitness and state of the virtual machines where the applications' resources are being used. Most of the time, the connection between users and the virtualized servers are not being monitored, despite it being the key to VDI performance.
There are, however, some clouds from a virtual or physical system, which come with the capability to evaluate, monitor, and troubleshoot performance remotely.
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