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Seeing a tweet from Christian Reilly yesterday about new product development from MeLLmo, the makers of Roambi, I decided to post a solution I developed at MicroTech based on the Roambi platform.  Regular readers of this site or my Twitter feed will know that I’m deeply immersed in the world of VDI these days.  Last year it occurred to me that there was no great dashboard for executives, directors, telework coordinators, power administrators, or integrators to monitor what is actually going on in their VDI. I focused on a solution that coupled the important metrics of a VDI to the emerging preferred platform of executives and decision makers, the tablet, or in this case, the Apple iPad.

Enter VDIRecon™ from MicroTech.

What is VDIRecon™ from MicroTech?

VDIRecon is a VISUAL DASHBOARD for your VDI environment.  It’s perfect for C-level executives, decision makers, Telework Coordinators, VDI administrators, and other individuals needing a high-level overview of a VDI environment from their tablet device.

VDIRecon has the ability to collect across multiple VDI environments which is perfect for organizations supporting multiple groups with their own standalone VDI or for desktop providers supporting a multitude of tenants.  The intelligence and data are dynamically updated to ensure accuracy.  All updates are encrypted and any data at rest on the tablet device, for example, an Apple iPad, is encrypted.

* Fictional Data for Demonstration Purposes Only

VDIRecon provides high level intelligence, that is completely interactive from the Apple iPad and is able to display metrics such as:

• Peak number of virtual desktops
• Average number of concurrent virtual desktops
• Total disk space consumed by the virtual desktops
• Bandwidth consumed by the VDI protocol (e.g. PCoIP)
• Number of users teleworking to support compliance with Telework.Gov initiatives

* Fictional Data for Demonstration Purposes Only

VDIRecon allows the user to understand trending in seconds through the intuitive and easy-to-use interface.  VDIRecon is capable of providing individual or holistic views of the environment so that the user can highlight individual sub-organizations or monitor the VDI as a whole.  VDIRecon can integrate with help desk or other ticketing systems to track help desk tickets associated with the use of VDI.  This helps organizations understand how VDI impacts their support staff through monitoring and measuring support calls generated.  Prove your VDI implementation was a success by measuring the decrease in help desk tickets associated with basic end user tasks.

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A more detailed overview of the solution can be found in the presentation below: