Integrated Topology Model for VDI Performance Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
IT professionals face challenges in understanding and monitoring the performance of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) systems due to complex interactions between physical and virtual resources, leading to difficulties in diagnosing and resolving performance issues.
Innovation Solution
A method that transforms monitoring data into an integrated topology model (ITM) comprising physical-and-virtual infrastructure, VDI, and access gateway topology models, enabling the tracking of dependencies and performance measurement across multiple layers of a computing environment, and publishes session performance information to a user dashboard.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If virtualization solutions are used to consolidate physical servers into virtual machines, then resource utilization and system consolidation are improved, but performance monitoring and troubleshooting complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex VDI performance monitoring problem into distinct topological layers (physical infrastructure layer, virtualization layer, VDI layer, and access gateway layer). Each layer is modeled separately with its own topology objects and relationships, allowing administrators to monitor and troubleshoot each layer independently while understanding their interconnections through the integrated topology model.
2Productivity
If multiple layers of virtualization are implemented, then system consolidation and resource efficiency are improved, but understanding performance dependencies becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an integrated topology model as an intermediary representation that captures and visualizes the dependency relationships across all virtualization layers. The topology model serves as a mediator between the complex multi-layered infrastructure and the administrator, making performance dependencies visible and traceable without requiring direct inspection of each layer's internal complexity.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive monitoring data is collected from all VDI components, then performance measurement accuracy is improved, but data processing and analysis complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges monitoring data from multiple VDI components (physical hosts, virtual machines, VDI sessions, access gateways) into a unified integrated topology model. By combining these disparate data sources into a single coherent model that represents the entire VDI ecosystem, the system enables comprehensive performance measurement while simplifying data analysis through the topological relationships that naturally organize the merged data.
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes receiving monitoring data obtained from a plurality of monitored resources in a computing environment. The method further includes transforming the monitoring data into an integrated topology model (ITM) instance of interconnected topology objects. The method further includes measuring session performance using the transformed monitoring data of the ITM instance. Also, the method includes publishing information related to measured session performance to a user dashboard.