eG Enterprise Logon Simulator for Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop

This 2nd-annual research report from DABCC and eG Innovations provides the results of a comprehensive survey of the Citrix user community – exploring the current state of Citrix performance management with a goal of helping Citrix users better understand current challenges, technology choices and best practices in the Citrix community. The survey results have been compiled into a data-rich, easy-to-digest report to provide you with benchmarks and new insights into the best practices for effective Citrix performance management.

“My application is slow” is a common complaint heard at the help desk from frustrated users and Java application slow downs are so frequent these days that they cost businesses twice as much as actual downtime. When slowness occurs, IT managers often do not have sufficient visibility and insight to quickly determine what caused, and how to resolve, the issue. Is it due to the network, the database, application code, virtualization or storage? In this webinar, Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, presented a multi-dimensional approach to performance monitoring and diagnosis that is necessary for ensuring that your Java applications are performing effectively – ensuring quick resolution and a positive user experience. View the slides to discover: • How to monitor the real user experience of Java applications and be proactively alerted to issues • How tag-and-follow transaction tracing helps identify application code issues quickly • Why you need to go beyond transaction tracing for root-cause diagnosis of Java performance issues • Why insights into the Java container and Java virtual machine performance matter • How performance correlation across the application and infrastructure tiers is essential for root-cause diagnosis

Peak performance and a positive user experience are the keys to the success of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop deployments to virtualize your applications and desktops. When application slowness occurs - and users notice - productivity and business revenue can be negatively impacted. Check out these slides from Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, a Citrix-Ready Partner, so you can discover how to address common performance challenges as well as learn some Citrix performance monitoring best practices, including how you can: • Resolve user complaints at the helpdesk, without escalating issues to Citrix experts • Troubleshoot and resolve Citrix logon slowness issues quickly • Find the root-cause of "Citrix is slow" complaints and determine what is causing the problem - i.e., network, VMware, Active Directory, application, Citrix, storage, etc. • Respond to 'my browser is slow in Citrix' - is it the browser users are accessing or something else? • Go from reactive to proactive monitoring of your Citrix services and keep users satisfied and productive

This document discusses best practices for monitoring VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. It recommends: 1) Measuring all aspects of the user experience, including logins, application launches, and session performance, using both synthetic and real user monitoring. 2) Monitoring every layer of the Horizon infrastructure and supporting systems like Active Directory, storage, and networking to pinpoint where problems originate. 3) Correlating performance across layers to determine the root cause of issues affecting user experience.

VMware Horizon View allows IT organizations to deliver virtual or hosted desktops and applications through a single platform to users. The success of these virtual desktop deployments is linked to the user experience: virtual desktops have to deliver better performance than physical desktops. This webinar presentation helps you learn how you can unlock the benefits of desktop and application virtualization by enabling your organization to monitor, diagnose and report on the performance of your VMware Horizon View infrastructure.

Being able to quickly scale up and deploy Citrix quickly to your workforce has never been more important. And Cloud-based service is a strategic direction for Citrix, one that you cannot ignore if you are a Citrix client. So, what are the benefits of Citrix Cloud and what are the caveats? George Spiers walks us through the pros and cons of migrating to Citrix Cloud. • The Citrix Cloud architecture • Architectural considerations when migrating to Citrix Cloud • How to decide what stays on-prem and what is in the cloud • Performance monitoring: How far do Citrix Director and Performance Analytics go

Whether you are migrating from Citrix XenApp 4.5 to 6.5 or from 6.5 to 7.5, or you are virtualizing your desktops as part of your Windows XP to Windows 7/8 migration project, performance is a key priority. Users will expect the same or better performance after the migration as they had before the migration. When performance problems occur, the migration is always blamed first! Join this webinar to learn about the latest best practices and secrets for making your Citrix and desktop migrations successful. Performance management experts Dennis Callaghan (Senior Analyst, 451 Research), Rick Ruskin (Vice President, VDX) and Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) will discuss how to: - Transform your Citrix and desktop environments successfully without project delays or cost overruns - Deliver superior end-user experience, simplify management, and reduce cost - before, during and after migration - Assure user satisfaction by pre-emptively detecting and resolving performance issues - before users are impacted - Utilize next-gen management solutions to accelerate troubleshooting and identify the true root-cause of problems (is it the Network? Database? Application? Citrix? Virtual platform? Storage?) - Ensure maximum ROI by right-sizing IT infrastructure using powerful analytics & reporting

This document discusses a webinar presented by eG Innovations on ensuring high-performing Microsoft .NET applications. The webinar covered full stack .NET monitoring including user experience monitoring, business transaction monitoring, .NET application monitoring, and infrastructure performance monitoring. It emphasized the importance of monitoring across the entire .NET stack from the user to infrastructure to identify performance issues and their root causes. The presentation recommended eG Enterprise as a solution to provide converged APM/IPM for unified monitoring of .NET environments.

One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in to the helpdesk complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving such issues? A Citrix deployment has many infrastructure tiers and dependencies. Where do you initially focus your investigations, what do you analyze, and how do you triage? George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting.

Logon is a user's first interaction with the Citrix digital workspace service, and hence, a slow logon can influence a user's opinion of the service in a way that no other metric can. Therefore, logon time is the #1 key performance indicator (KPI) in Citrix environments. Slow logons have an impact not just on user perception, but also on productivity. When each logon takes minutes — maybe on multiple systems — it results in lost work time and costs the business. So, it is imperative that logons be as quick and non-intrusive as possible. But how can we make this happen? Learn some of the best practices for Citrix Logon time optimization.

Citrix Cloud services simplify the delivery and management of Citrix solutions, helping our users to extend their existing on-premises software deployments or even move one hundred percent to the cloud. Citrix Cloud services deploy secure digital workspaces in hours, placing the sensitive app, desktop and data resources on any cloud or hybrid cloud. Accessing the apps, desktops and any data has become easy than ever with Citrix Workspace. Citrix Workspace fully aggregates all apps, data, and files across all applications, and it offers a user-centric experience where everything you need to work is in one unified app, with conditional access and performance made simple based on user context and IT-designed policies. Citrix Cloud services support the integration with different technologies that vary significantly from one organization to another. The first step for users is to access their provisioned desktops, applications, and files, which is why monitoring the logon performance has become critical for Citrix solutions. That's why eG Innovations provides a free login simulator for Citrix Workspace, through their eG Enterprise solution which is verified as Citrix Ready. One of the primary requirements by organisations is to achieve exceptional Citrix user experience and service quality. eG Enterprise helps to proactively monitor all aspects of Citrix user experience - login times, application launch times, screen refresh latencies, virtual channel bandwidth usage, etc., and more importantly helps to identify underlying infrastructure tiers to help determine where the root cause of a problem lies; whether it is network, database, application, Citrix, or storage. Discover how Citrix and eG Innovations combine to provide you with end-to-end performance management and learn how to: • Deliver a secure digital workspace, and to improve business productivity with a fully integrated digital workspace from any cloud or hybrid cloud. • Ensure the success of new deployments and migration to Citrix Cloud with pre-built migration reports • End-to-end monitoring of Citrix services across user experience, session performance, connectivity, licensing, infrastructure health and capacity • Monitor Citrix services on physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures from Single pane of glass.

Slow logon is one of the most common user complaints faced by Citrix admins. When logon is slow, it affects the end-user experience and business productivity. Because XenApp and XenDesktop logon comprises many steps and depends on various parts of the infrastructure, it is often difficult to know what is causing logon slowness. The biggest question every Citrix admin has is “How do I make Citrix logons faster”? Here are some best practices from George Spiers, CTP, based on his real-world experience to optimize your Citrix infrastructure to make logons up to 75% faster. • Understand what factors are involved in Citrix login processing • Learn optimization techniques to make logon faster including profile management and image optimization • Learn how to improve logon times using new Citrix technologies such as App Layering and WEM • Pick up tips, tricks and tools to proactively detect logon slowdowns

A recent survey by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) found that a 65% of organizations have over 10 different tools for monitoring and managing their IT infrastructure. Multiple monitoring tools make it expensive to operate and troubleshoot IT infrastructure issues. For many years now, IT managers have been seeking a single-pane-of-glass tool that can help them monitor and manage all aspects of their IT infrastructure – from desktops to servers, hardware to application code, and networks to storage. Is such a single-pane-of-glass solution practical? View this presentation and learn what a single-pane-of-glass monitoring solution can do and how it can help you simplify IT performance management. Debunk myths and uncover truths. Get answers to some common questions IT professionals have: • Can a single-pane-of-glass monitoring solution replace all the tools you are using today? • What are the typical characteristics of such a solution, and what are its pros and cons? • How does your organization structure need to change to use such a tool? • How difficult is it to implement a single-pane-of-glass tool? Simplify and streamline IT monitoring. Become an IT performance superhero.

This document discusses Citrix's use of eG Enterprise for end-to-end monitoring of their user conferences. It provides an overview of eG Innovations and its monitoring capabilities. Citrix requires a monitoring solution that provides unified visibility across all Citrix tiers from a single console, with insights to pinpoint root causes. eG Enterprise meets these needs through its end-to-end, scalable, and proactive monitoring of Citrix infrastructure, supporting faster issue resolution. The presentation also covers new features in eG 6.3 like expanded XenApp/XenDesktop monitoring and support for technologies like Citrix Adaptive Transport and Linux VDAs.

If you are managing or operating Java-based web applications, you have probably heard your users complain many a time that "the application is slow". After spending hours, you find out that the issue was not your application, but with a third party service that your application relies upon. Web application performance issues can also occur due to code problems, database table locks or slowness on the browser, to name a few reasons. Learn how to troubleshoot four real-world performance issues with Java-based web applications in minutes.

The eG Enterprise Suite provides real-time monitoring and proactive infrastructure management to help customers rapidly diagnose IT performance issues. It uses automated root cause analysis to identify the underlying problem instead of just surface symptoms. This helps reduce troubleshooting time from hours to minutes. The single-agent monitoring solution provides visibility across applications, databases, networks and more to eliminate finger-pointing between teams. Customers have reported resolving issues 4-9 minutes faster and impacting 4,512 fewer customers per problem since using the eG Suite.

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NetApp provides several storage efficiency technologies including data compression, deduplication, RAID-DP, and SATA drives with flash cache. These technologies reduce the amount of physical storage needed, protect against disk failures, and improve performance. Data compression removes redundant data inline, while deduplication identifies and removes duplicate data blocks across applications. RAID-DP protects against double disk failures without sacrificing performance or requiring additional disks.

This document provides an overview of virtual volumes (VVols) presented at the STO1965 conference. It begins with an introduction to VVols and the high-level architecture, including storage containers, protocol endpoints, and the VASA provider. The document then covers managing storage capacity with storage containers, ensuring service level objectives through storage policies, and the different types of virtual machine objects that can be VVols. It concludes by discussing data services like snapshots and replication that can be offloaded to arrays, and the transition process from traditional storage to VVols.

This document describes a user study that evaluated MAV-Vis, a new graphical notation for modeling uncertainty in models, compared to the existing textual notation MAV-Text. The study found that MAV-Vis was considered more intuitive and easier to read, although it was slightly slower for writing. Specifically, participants had fewer errors reading models with alternative refinements represented using MAV-Vis. However, more errors occurred when writing with MAV-Vis, mainly due to confusion over the use of color to represent points of uncertainty. The results provide preliminary evidence that MAV-Vis improves cognitive effectiveness for reading but may require more practice for writing complex models with uncertainty.

Hopla! Software is a Docker value-added reseller and distributor that provides 24x7 support in Spanish. They have a presence in several countries and 12 engineers. Their services include break/fix support, subscriptions, training, tools, and migration and architectural consulting. They help companies adopt Docker to improve development cycles, scalability, responsibilities segregation between teams, portability, and operational efficiency. Docker allows applications to be packaged in containers that provide consistent environments, enabling faster development and deployment, simplified testing and rollbacks, and higher server utilization.

This document discusses Hitachi Data Systems' (HDS) support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVol). It summarizes HDS's VVol capabilities including native support with HNAS and VSP storage arrays, VASA provider virtual appliances, storage container management, VM storage policies, and data protection features like hardware snapshot offloading. It also discusses how VVols can provide automated storage tiering and migration to better match changing VM requirements over time.

This document discusses application management and operations (M&O) on OpenStack. It begins by noting that while OpenStack and other IaaS platforms address initial infrastructure needs, more is required to properly support existing and future applications. The rest of the document then summarizes various approaches for deploying and managing applications on OpenStack through tools like Puppet, Heat, Cloudify, BOSH, Murano and Magnum. It emphasizes the need for application M&O to be integrated with cloud and infrastructure M&O and to support cloud-native applications and microservices. The document promotes further research into tools like Magnum to provide container orchestration as first-class OpenStack resources.

Horizon Application Manager is VMware's new SaaS application delivery solution. It provides a simple, cross-delivery platform for managing virtual applications – if an app can be virtualized with ThinApp, it can be delivered through Horizon to a desktop, tablet, or mobile device. This flexible, simple and quick method of application delivery is the future of workforce productivity! View our slide deck as we explore how VMware Horizon Application Manager empowers IT and gives end-users an easy, secure way to get to their work! And for more information on this or other virtualization topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.

This document discusses desktop virtualization and its benefits from the perspective of a CIO at a law firm. It outlines how the firm implemented a VDI solution using VMware View with linked clones, Unidesk, and Wyse thin clients to provide mobility, rapid deployment/recovery, easy management, and storage optimization. The VDI infrastructure includes 7 pools of 150 desktop VMs each on 3 HP servers with EMC storage. Benefits included easier management through system recovery and template maintenance as well as supporting employee mobility and BYOD. Ensuring a good user experience was emphasized as key to success.

This document discusses the architecture of VMware Horizon Workspace and how to configure it for scale and performance. It describes the different virtual appliance components that make up a Horizon Workspace deployment including the configurator, service, data, connector, and gateway VAs. It provides hardware sizing recommendations for each VA based on the number of supported users. It also discusses vSphere configuration considerations and best practices for backup and high availability when deploying Horizon Workspace.

VMware ThinApp is an application virtualization solution that allows any Windows application to be packaged and run in isolation without installation on the local system. It has an agentless architecture that does not require any pre-installed software. Applications virtualized with ThinApp run entirely in user mode for an secure, clean desktop. ThinApp provides benefits such as application isolation, compatibility without conflicts, ability to run multiple versions simultaneously, and simplified application management. It can also integrate with systems management and virtual desktop solutions.

The document provides an overview of VMware ThinApp, including its architecture, isolation modes, package formats, deployment methods, and key features. ThinApp uses a virtual operating system and sandbox model to deliver applications in a compressed executable file format while isolating them from the underlying system. It supports various isolation modes and deployment options and also includes capabilities like scripting, memory sharing, boot services, and application linking.

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This document provides an overview of VMware's Horizon View Accelerator Service, which aims to deliver a limited-scale Horizon View environment to validate its capabilities. Key activities include building the Horizon View environment, defining success criteria and test plans, validating the environment, and conducting knowledge transfer. The engagement will deliver documentation including an executive summary, project summary, and test plans. It will integrate applications using ThinApp and install vCenter Operations Manager and vCloud Networking and Security if applicable. The sample timeline is 3 weeks with phases for planning, building, validating, and concluding the project.