The complexities of the virtual desktop delivery chain with its many technologies and systems, including endpoint devices, enterprise directories, session brokers and virtual infrastructures present many management challenges.

EVM provides essential capabilities for effectively managing virtual desktop environments leveraging its unique, agent-free, real-time discovery, tracking, analysis and monitoring to provide comprehensive visibility to all of the components supporting virtual desktops. From the user and endpoint device to the session broker, the virtual infrastructure and into the VMs, EVM features for Virtual Desktop operations and support teams include:

• Enables on-demand virtual desktop provisioning from web-based portal and service catalogs.
• Provides operational dashboards, analytics and reporting.
• Tracks VM genealogy, baselining, and performs ad hoc comparisons.
• Identifies resource problems and bottlenecks.
• Provides alerting, future bottlenecks, and trending.
• Enables VM restart and thin-client device reset from single console.