vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon View 1.5 which was recently released by VMware brings new features and enhancements for administrators and users that would like to proactively monitor their VMware View environments. The vC Ops for View can not only monitor View desktops but during the deployment and installation phase, the View data collector agents are deployed automatically with VMware Horizon View agents. (for older View environments like View 5.0 or 5.1, those agents can get deployed manually)
Scalability improvements – The first release of vCOps for View was limited to 3000 desktops (good enough for many environments), but the 1.5 version can handle 8000 desktops running at the same time within single instance of vCOPS. In addition, the multiple Horizon View pods (A pod is a unit of organization determined by Horizon View scalability limits) can now be monitored with the same vCOPs adapter instance.
Better Monitoring Capabilities – the engine now uses the vCenter Operations Manager analytics (based on vCenter Operations Manager 5.7).
Quite interesting are Dynamic Thresholds.
Dynamic thresholds to determine the expected range of resource behavior through learned upper and lower ranges of a metric’s value. Dynamic thresholds are superior to the static thresholds often relied upon by other monitoring solutions. Dynamic thresholds intelligently reduce the number of alerts and alarms that need to be evaluated or diagnosed. Whenever the monitored value of a resource metric exceeds a dynamic threshold (goes beyond the upper range), the behavior is considered abnormal, and the monitoring team is alerted.
vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon View 1.5
The product can be downloaded as a 60 days trial from VMware. Concerning the product's licensing:
- The 1.5 is licensed by “concurrent Horizon View user”
- Licenses are available in 10 or 100-user packs
Before trying or testing make sure that you don't need support for all this below, as it's NOT supported in the current release of vC Ops for View 1.5, so check out the Release notes.
- physical desktops
- Terminal services pools
- 32 bit 5.0 connection servers
- Users connecting via VMware Blast (via browser). The datas aren't collected.
vC Ops for View Links and documentation:
Source: VMware End user computing Blog
