Saturday, July 19, 2014

Profile, Environment and Performance Management

AppSense Environment Manager enables you to control and manage all levels of user access to the desktop and server environment of your organization by providing easy to configure GUI-driven logon processes, comprehensive application lockdown capabilities and self healing for enforcing your policies.

The AppSense Environment Manager system consists of the AppSense Environment Manager console and the Environment Manager Agent. The console is an administrative tool to create and manage configurations. The Agent resides on the controlled computers and receives configurations from the AppSense deployment system to manage the machine and user environment. Environment Manager can operate either in Standalone or Full Deployment modes. In Standalone Mode, the console saves its settings directly to the local system. In Full Deployment mode, multiple configurations can be deployed to the controlled computers in a variety of formats depending on your system requirements. This guide describes the use of AppSense Environment Manager in Standalone Mode.

AppSense Performance Manager provides workload management of network bandwidth, CPU and memory resources. Performance Manager also provides automated application memory optimization, which significantly reduces page file usage, leading to significant increases in system capacity.

There are 4 key components to an AppSense Application Manager solution –
Agent that sits on every virtual desktop.
Profile server(s) that these agents communicate with (runs on Windows Server)
Microsoft SQL Server which the profile servers use to host all volatile / configuration data (runs on Windows Server).
Management Centre (an optional service that supports agent deployment and configuration management). This service component is not currently in scope, but if it does get adopted in the future it also need to run on a Windows server with access to a back end supporting SQL Server database.
It is proposed to leverage the same SQL Server database deployed in support of the Broker (Desktop Delivery Controller) and Virtualisation Management (Virtual Centre) services above.
It is proposed to run instances of the profile server on every shared Desktop Delivery Controller/Virtual Centre/Environment Manager server as detailed above.

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