Get NVIDIA vGPU performance and availability metrics – now in ControlUp
Like it or not, we can’t have a conversation these days about desktop virtualization without somebody mentioning GPU. The Concept of GPU use cases are proliferating far beyond graphical work forces to the task workers and beyond. Today I’m happy to share we’ve started our first step in integrating NVIDIA Grid vGPU technology into the […]
Introducing VMWare snapshot management and hardware reconfiguration SBAs
We are happy to announce 5 new Script Based Actions for managing VMWare machines directly from ControlUp Console. Snapshot management VM snapshots are a great feature, but all too often a snapshot has been made by somebody who forgot to clean it up later. In large environments you could end up with multiple snapshots all […]
XenDesktop Broker Integration
With the looming release of ControlUp version 6, I’m super excited to talk about the new Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp broker integration built into the console! With this new release, ControlUp will have full visibility of every aspect of XenDesktop and XenApp site health. From VDA’s, to controllers, to databases and services, from a single […]
What’s new in ControlUp Insights
Since we first launched ControlUp Insights in early 2016 so much has changed, new reports were added and lots of updates happened behind the scenes. While sticking to our guidelines of keeping it simple, interactive, beautiful and insightful, you may have also noticed a significant performance boost. This is actually due to ControlUp’s investment in […]
Hyper-V real-time performance monitoring and management
By now, many people have heard about (and sing the praises of) ControlUp and our unique way of bringing IT insights to sysadmins around the world. In version 4.0, we introduced Hypervisor integration to extend our real-time performance monitoring to the virtualization world, starting with VMware ESXi and XenServer. Now, in version 6, we are proud […]
Analyze HDX Bandwidth
Posted By Matan Nataf
We are happy to announce a new script based action package named Analyze Network Issues. The trigger for the announcement is the release of two brand new scripts now available in the ControlUp script library (under Community Actions) and the upcoming release of ControlUp 6.0, which introduces new HDX session bandwidth related columns. This article will cover […]
Troubleshoot and Speed Up Windows Logons in Desktop Virtualization Environments
Logon issues are part of the reality of any desktop virtualization environment. Since slow logons are rampant in virtual environments and have a negative impact on user experience and how VDI is perceived in the organization, it is important to minimize the slow logons to the lowest level possible. Let’s explore common reasons for slow […]
Analyzing High Profile Load Time
One of the very popular pieces of information that ControlUp provides is insight into statistics of user sessions, especially profile load time during login. In this post, we would like to go through a way of using both ControlUp Insights and the Script-Based Actions in order to identify and troubleshoot high profile load times. Identifying […]
Everything you need to know about the new Citrix MCS IO acceleration
With the release of Citrix XenDesktop 7.9, a new feature we’ve all been “keen as mustard” to test is the new Citrix MCS IO acceleration baked into the 7.9 release. If you’re unfamiliar with this functionality, think about the ability to serve burst disk IO directly from RAM instead of slower san disk. Moreover, if […]