ControlUp 8.1’s native integration with VMware Horizon provides Horizon admins with a long list of new capabilities. Last week ControlUp technical evangelists Trentent Tye and Tom Fenton covered those capabilities in a VMUG Virtual event. That session was recorded and VMUG has kindly allowed us to share that recording on our blog. This session covers […]
Posted By Dane Christensen
December 06, 2019
ControlUp is the subject of another article by Tom Fenton in Virtualization & Cloud Review! This article details a first-time user’s experience acquiring and leveraging VMware Horizon environment historical data captured by ControlUp. The piece starts with a description of how Tom configured ControlUp to capture historical data, then goes on to show what data […]
Posted By Oleg Alter
November 13, 2019
NOTE: This post comes from Oleg Alter, a Senior Product Manager at ControlUp. I was thrilled to learn that since my first It’s Time for Automation blog post, thousands of Automated Actions are in flight in our customers’ environments. Many of those Actions optimize VDI resources and reduce bandwidth by closing unused remote sessions and […]
Posted By Dane Christensen
November 06, 2019
Recently we sent ControlUp Real-Time to Tom Fenton, Contributing Writer at Virtualization & Cloud Review. In response, Tom has written a three-part series detailing ControlUp setup and use in a vSphere environment. The first article covers the installation, configuration and the layout of the ControlUp Monitor Console (CMC). This article also details how the stress […]
Posted By Dane Christensen
October 15, 2019
We are pleased to announce a new product that: Cuts costs and downtime, Maximizes IT control, and, Reduces risk in VMware software-defined data centers. ControlUp Analyzer is deployed as a virtual appliance and allows VMware vSphere™, vSAN™, Horizon, and NSX™ administrators to remove configuration and security risks and provide end-users with a great experience. Analyzer […]
Posted By Oleg Alter
October 08, 2019
NOTE: This post comes from Oleg Alter, a Senior Product Manager at ControlUp. At ControlUp we take IT automation very seriously. The biggest challenge with IT automation is that every environment is unique, complex and ever-changing. Out-of-the-box automation is helpful, but usually covers 70-80% of use cases and often requires expertise to fit the automation […]
Posted By Dane Christensen
September 25, 2019
We’re looking forward to an upcoming VMware User Group webcast on 10/2/19 featuring ControlUp’s Trentent Tye. During the webcast Trentent will cover and demonstrate new ControlUp features and products of special interest for administrators working with VMware Horizon, vSphere™, and vSAN™ environments. During the webcast, Trentent will explain and demonstrate ControlUp’s new native integration with […]
Posted By Esther Barthel
September 23, 2019
NOTE: This post comes from Esther Barthel, MSc, solutions architect, owner of cognition IT, and a consultant to ControlUp. A couple of weeks ago, one of my clients experienced some unexpected behavior that seemed to be linked to the High Availability (HA) configuration of their Citrix ADCs. In reaction the client asked me to run […]
Posted By Dane Christensen
September 19, 2019
We’re excited about an upcoming Citrix User Group Community (CUCG) webinar on 9/25/19 featuring ControlUp’s Trentent Tye. During the webinar, Trentent and Citrix CTA Chris Schrameyer will discuss how ControlUp’s new automation engine can solve Citrix issues before they become major incidents—and in some cases before they even happen. Trentent will focus his remarks and […]
Posted By Leeza Malachevsky
September 10, 2019
In August 2019, over 20,000 of the world’s brightest IT professionals gathered to preview and celebrate VMware’s new and emerging technology at VMworld. For us, VMworld is a chance to catch up with existing customers, meet new customers, and showcase the technology we’ve created to optimize VMware-specific environments. This year, the ControlUp crew gathered at […]
Posted By Trentent Tye
August 27, 2019
ControlUp captures metadata of community members. This leads to innovation like allowing customers to compare their logon times vs the wider community. I reached out to the ControlUp Research team and asked a question that I had been thinking about. What percentage of users are idle or in a disconnected state over the course of […]
Posted By Dane Christensen
August 22, 2019
If you are attending VMworld 2019, visit us at Booth 1651 to see how ControlUp can give you virtualization superpowers. We’ll be showing our most recent solutions and some old favorites: We’ll demonstrate ControlUp Real-time Automated Actions, which allows IT admins to proactively solve recurring problems in their infrastructure. We published over a dozen brand-new […]
Posted By Dane Christensen
August 20, 2019
In early 2019, we conducted many customer interviews to learn about the challenges they face when managing their virtualized data center. Using those insights, we began work on a solution to make it easier for data center administrators to control and manage their virtualized data centers. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability […]
Posted By Trentent Tye
August 09, 2019
Session optimization is a common challenge, whether you’re managing a Citrix, VMware Horizon, RDS, or WVD environment (or an environment composed of all three). We’ve been working on a approach to attacking the problem, creating scripts and adding triggers to make the result more comprehensive and powerful. And we’ve done it! These new trigger/script action […]