Disconnected Virtual Sessions
With virtual desktops and Windows 365, users failing to log off inactive sessions can lead to a one-to-one loss in resources per workspace, resulting in significant resource waste over time. To avoid this issue, it's important to identify and manage inactive sessions across all platforms, whether the environment is on-premises or in the cloud. Platform vendors like Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft offer various methods for addressing this issue, such as setting a Microsoft Group Policy Object (GPO) or a disconnect limit with a timeout interval. By implementing these solutions, organizations can prevent inactive sessions from tying up valuable resources to ensure that users have access to the resources they need for maximum productivity. However, you still need a way to identify inactive sessions to invoke these methods.
What if there were a method for comprehensively identifying — at a glance — all inactive sessions that do not invoke rules for auto disconnection?
Stratusphere™ UX can be leveraged to identify disconnected and unused sessions in VDI and Windows 365 environments, which can lead to substantial cost savings for enterprises. With its ability to collect and analyze detailed metrics on the performance of virtual environments, Stratusphere UX makes it easy to identify and eliminate wasted resources, helping organizations optimize their resource utilization and save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
Get a FREE Cost Savings Analysis to identify cost savings for your environment.
• Use Stratusphere UX to provide visibility and insight of inactive sessions.
• Identify and eliminate unnecessary resource consumption to free up valuable resources for other users and/or applications.
• Run detailed reports with key analytics to continue to monitor and ensure workspaces with great digital experiences.
Customer Savings Example
Liquidware Stratusphere UX was leveraged by a large financial company to identify wasted vCPU and RAM in their VDI environment across 3,500 virtual workspaces. Over the course of seven days that were monitored, in a sample size of 69 workspaces, Stratusphere UX found nearly 13 vCPUs were consumed but not being utilized by users because the machines were disconnected but not logged off. According to the customer, their costs per vCPU is $200 per year per vCPU, or $2,511 in wasted vCPU. Additionally, these disconnected sessions were needlessly consuming more than 75GB of RAM at an annual cost of $70, equating to $5,239 in the sampled machines. The customer was able to invoke automatic actions and rules to automatically logoff disconnected machines after a select time interval. When these savings were aggregated across the entire VDI enterprise of 3,500 desktops the total savings was estimated at $475,900.
Example: Screenshot shows a portion of a Cost Savings Analysis that focuses on Disconnected Sessions.
