Measuring Real Latency — The Missing Piece in VDI Performance Latency isn’t just a number you pull from monitoring tools. It’s about the delay users feel, the gap between when they click and when something actually happens on their screen. In virtual desktop environments, traditional latency metrics (like server response times or network delays) only tell part of the story. Users interact with their device locally, so the real question is: how long does it take until their sc

One of the things i'm a big fan of is to load test and validate a VDI environment with fictional users before going live with real users. To get a complete picture I like to get 3 points of view. End user, within the VDI and the underlying Hypervisor. In the example given here, load tested VMware Horizon environment based on Instant Clones devided over 2 PODS both with one resource block. Each resource block consists of one vSAN Enabled cluster. Enduser Perspective One of th