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Beyond Omnissa Horizon, eG Innovations includes purpose-built, fully integrated modules for other VMware technologies and even third-party products likely to be used alongside Horizon. Technologies supported include the Blast Extreme protocol,<\/a> VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG),<\/a> thin clients, and of course, App Volumes. Today, I\u2019ll focus on how to ensure that you can monitor VMware App Volumes both via full insights from App Volumes Manager but also via continuous monitoring of user endpoints.<\/p>\n

App Volumes has been neglected by most monitoring vendors and freeware; probably owing to the need to develop domain-aware supported components so many other products utilize unsupported manual scripts to provide some coverage without the costs of R&D. VMware themselves have done a very good job of making App Volumes data available to monitoring vendors.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll cover what is possible if a product integrates beyond scripting. We\u2019ve also put a short overview video together showing eG Enterprise\u2019s layered model UI (User Interface) actively monitoring App Volumes so you can see the visuals for yourself:<\/p>\n

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If you are experience issues and are troubleshooting App Volumes, you might want to visit VMware\u2019s troubleshooting page, here.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>What is App Volumes?<\/span><\/h2>\n

VMware App Volumes is a real-time application delivery system that enterprises use to dynamically deliver and manage applications and their lifecycle. Applications are bundled in AppStacks and are delivered by attaching a standard VMDK or VHD file to a virtual machine.<\/p>\n

Administrators can centrally manage the applications with the App Volumes Manager, a Web-based interface that is integrated with Active Directory (AD) and vSphere. Administrators can assign, update, or remove applications at the next user login or in real time and there is no need to modify the desktops or individual applications. Writable Volumes allow users to access their application data across sessions and devices.<\/p>\n

Applications delivered using App Volumes look and feel natively installed and you can update or replace the applications in real time.<\/p>\n

With App Volumes, applications become VM-independent objects that can be moved easily across data centers or to the cloud and shared with thousands of virtual machines. In a virtual desktop environment, App Volumes provides many benefits.
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<\/span>The App Volumes Manager \u2013 The Need to Monitor Continuously<\/span><\/h2>\n

The VMware App Volumes Manager is a Windows Server used as the Web Console for administration and configuration and assignment of AppStacks and writable volumes. It is also used as a broker for the App Volumes Agents, for automated assignment of applications and writable volumes during desktop startup or user login.<\/p>\n

In environments where App Volumes is extensively used, if an AppStack could not be assigned to a user or if the user could not access the applications due to lack of storage space in the volumes, users are forced to wait till the AppStacks are made available or the storage space is increased. To avoid such poor user experience, it is necessary for the administrators to monitor the VMware App Volumes Manager round the clock! eG Enterprise helps administrators in this regard.<\/p>\n

Moreover, eG Enterprise configures thresholds on App Volumes logs, metrics, events, and errors to trigger and then filter and correlate alerts via dashboards, alert consoles, emails\/SMSes, or automated ticketing integrations with the likes of ServiceNOW,<\/a> Slack,<\/a> Jira,<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Monitoring the VMware App Volumes Manager<\/span><\/h2>\n

eG Enterprise offers a specialized VMware App Volumes Manager monitoring model, which monitors the license utilization, storage, AppStacks, and storage groups of the VMware App Volumes Manager and proactively alerts administrators to potential performance troubles.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1: Layer model of VMware App Volumes Manager<\/div>\n

Each layer of the Figure 1<\/a> is mapped to a variety of tests that provide valuable insights into the overall health and performance of the target VMware App Volumes Manager. With the help of the metrics and statuses reported by these tests, you can find quick and accurate answers for the following questions:<\/p>\n