Measures reported by VDIBoxTempSumTest
Templates are the molds from which desktops are created. You can use templates to create uniform virtual desktops that meet your specifications. Templates consist of an image and policies. The image contains the operating systems and applications that run on the desktop. Policies, which you set while creating the template, are characteristics such as how many desktops to create and how much RAM to allocate to the desktops. Using this test, you can determine the current status of the desktops created using each template configured using the vdimanager. This way, you can figure out how many desktops are currently in use and how many are broken.
The measures made by this test are as follows:
| Measurement |
Description |
Measurement Unit |
Interpretation |
| Desk_in_use |
Indicates the number of desktops created from this template that are currently in use. |
Number |
This refers to the number of desktops to which a user is currently logged into.
The detailed diagnosis of this measure will list the names of desktops that are currently in use.
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| Desk_not_in_use |
Indicates the number of desktops created from this template that are currently not in use. |
Number |
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| Desk_utilization |
Indicates the percentage of desktops created from this template that are currently in use. |
Percent |
A high value for this measure indicates that too many desktops are in use. This in turn implies that very few desktops are currently available for usage. |
| Desk_new |
Indicates the number of desktops created from this template that are ready for login - i.e., the number of new desktops. |
Number |
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| Desk_hold |
Indicates the number of desktops created from this template that were in use in the past, but the user has currently logged out. |
Number |
This refers to the number of desktops that are ‘on hold’.
You can use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know which desktops are on hold currently.
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| Desk_broken |
Indicates the number of desktops created from this template that are broken. |
Number |
A desktop in an unknown state has the status “Broken” and is not available to users. Causes for broken desktops are as follows:
- Desktops are getting stuck in startup within Windows due to missing or incorrect startup configuration, e.g., a bad product key or incorrectly specified domain credentials. This can be diagnosed by using a console client to directly look at the console of the broken desktop to see if it is waiting on user input. This is the most common reason desktops are broken, and this cause can be mitigated by thoroughly testing working desktops before saving them as templates.
- The server is too heavily loaded to start new desktops.
- The disk space on the datastore is exhausted.
- The computer name allocation system has been exhausted.
- The MAC address allocation system has been exhausted.
- The template image has been lost.
To know which desktops are broken, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure. |
| Desk_start |
Indicates the number of desktops created from this template that are being pre-started for instant login. |
Number |
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