eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by PoolsTest

In VMware View a Desktop Pool is a managed entity. Within this managed entity you can configure the following options:

  • Virtual Machines that are provided to the Connection Server
    • Automated Pools create virtual machines cloned from a base template
    • Manual Pools based on existing Virtual Machines managed by vCenter
    • Manual Pools based on physical desktops, Blade Workstations or Virtual Machines managed by other Virtualisation Provider
    • Terminal Services Desktop provided by a Terminal Server
  • User that are entitled to connect to Virtual Desktops provided by this Desktop Pool
  • Assign Users to desktops
  • Desktop Pool properties – Automated and Manual Pools have different options
  • Desktop Pool Policies
  • Updates to existing desktops
This allows you to create different desktop pools for different user groups and provide a different service to them. For example for one group you provide floated desktop pools that are not persistent and for another group you will allow persistent desktops. Or one desktop pool is allowed to have Virtual Desktop in local mode and for other you don’t allow it. A user can have the choice of different Desktop Pools when he is connecting via his View Client.

This test monitors the status of this desktop pool and the user related statistics for this desktop pool in the VMware View server.

 The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
PoolEnabled Indicates whether this desktop pool is enabled or not. Number This measure reports either Enabled or Disabled as the status of this desktop pool. The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned states are as follows:

State Numeric Value
Enabled 1
Disabled 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned states while indicating the status of this desktop pool. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
PoolEntitled Indicates the status of the user in this desktop pool i.e., indicates whether the user is within this desktop pool or not. Number This measure reports either Entitled or UnEntitled as the status of the user in this desktop pool. The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned states are as follows:

State Numeric Value
Entitled 1
UnEntitled 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned states while indicating the status of the user in this desktop pool. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
TotalEntitledPool Indicates the total number of entitled users present in this desktop pool. Number The detailed diagnosis of this measure shows the number of entitled users present in this desktop pool
LocalSessions Indicates the total number of users present in the local session of this desktop pool. Number The total number of users present in the local session can be viewed in the detailed diagnosis.
RemoteSessions Indicates the total number of users present in the remote session of this desktop pool. Number The total number of users present in the remote session of this desktop pool can be viewed in the detailed diagnosis.
TotalDesktops Indicates the total number of registered desktops present in this desktop pool. Number The detailed diagnosis of this measure shows the total number of registered desktops.