
Moving virtual machines from one folder to another within VirtualCenter.Re-signaturing a LUN which is hosting VDI desktops.Un-registering and re-registering a virtual machine on VMware Infrastructure Client or VirtualCenter.Removing and re-adding an ESX host from VirtualCenter.Moving an ESX from one cluster to another.The VMware KB article provides a list of VirtualCenter 2.5.x actions that conflict with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure functionality (Virtual Desktop Manager 2.x and View 3.x) and cause VDI Desktops to become inaccessible. But when I looked at the affected product versions it appeared that this was not the case. My first thought was ‘ Ah finally, an explanation why vSphere 4 has no support for VMware View 3‘. ‘VirtualCenter tasks that conflict with VMware Virtual Desktop functionality‘ As usual a twitter contact pointed me to a VMware KB article which states the following. You can also get visibility into the application and network layers using Site24x7 VMware monitoring.It sounds a bit strange, ‘ vCenter vs VDI‘, as both are VMware products but it’s true. This monitoring takes place at every resource level so all connections are tracked. You can monitor this entire process using the Site24x7 On-Premise Poller, wherein the On-Premise Poller establishes a secure connection with the View Connection Server to obtain the monitoring data. The user chooses the required resources, and an encrypted session is initiated where the user connects and works using the VMs. Once the View Connection Server validates the credentials, it allocates available resources to the user. When a user tries to initiate a VDI session, the user provides credentials to connect to the gateway. This monitoring helps debug issues, like high login times while accessing, using maximum and average session logon time metrics. This includes monitoring the associated resources, tracking the connections established over different sessions, and alerting admins based on the thresholds configured for various metrics. VMware VDI monitoring involves monitoring VMware Horizon, which acts as the administrator.

How does Site24x7 monitor VMware Horizon?
