Liquidware’s Stratusphere™ UX is an essential desktop monitoring tool for virtual desktop administrators who support mixed virtual-and-physical production environments. Existing monitoring solutions are built for legacy systems and are subsystem based with no correlation to desktop users, machine names, and application names. Stratusphere UX is unique in that it uses patented technology to track real-time actual end user metrics and response data across all desktops in the enterprise by measuring a set of specialized indicator metrics.
Stratusphere UX is ideal for environments where virtual desktops are already in production, and administrators plan to scale the environment by doing the following:
- Adding more users (and virtual desktops)
- Adding users with different working habits (i.e., remote vs. in-office)
- Adding more complex user desktop images (knowledge or power workers)
- Running both virtual and physical desktops in their environments
- Upgrading or adding new operating systems or applications
Very often, virtual desktop capacity is over-provisioned early on while there are relatively few users in production. However, issues arise later when organizations scale the environment and add users and/or make modifications to the images or systems. The shared-resource infrastructure makes it difficult to isolate the root cause of problems. A solution such as Stratusphere UX becomes indispensable at this point because it provides visibility into areas that traditional monitoring solutions do not. Stratusphere UX allows virtual desktop managers to accomplish the day-to-day monitoring and maintenance of the virtual desktop environment with easy-to-use Dashboards and Inspectors. Stratusphere UX’s low price point makes it feasible to use alongside existing enterprise or platform-specific monitoring solutions.
Stratusphere UX delivers the following user experience (UX) end user response time information:
- User Logon Time in Seconds
- Application Launch Time in Seconds
- Application Server Response Time (ART)
- Application Not Responding Information
- Application Usage Tracking / Installed vs. Consumed
- Network Latency / Round Trip Time (NRT)
- Network Connection Failures
- Network Connection Tracking by Port, User & Device to Device
- Disk & Network IO per Application/Process
- Disk and CPU Queues
- Visibility into TCP and UDP traffic streams and patterns
- Overall VDI UX composite metrics and score
Stratusphere UX is designed to save organizations time and money while boosting productivity. Advanced Inspectors allow administrators to monitor environments proactively and drill-down into potential issues quickly to respond to Help Desk requests or other support tasks. With a large collection of standard reports, Stratusphere provides a wealth of information about your organization's infrastructure and users as well as the ability to create customized reports. Armed with hard objective data, administrators are prepared to provide Health Checks to diagnose and troubleshoot desktop environments or user experience validation that corporate decisions are matching budgetary constraints while meeting users’ needs.
