WATERMARKING AND SCALABILITY TECHNIQUES FOR A VIRTUAL DESKTOP PLANNING TOOL
First Claim
1. A method for measuring performance of virtual desktop services offered by a server including a processor, the method comprising:
- overlaying at the server a first encoded watermark onto a user interface display that is communicated to a client when initiating an operation, the first encoded watermark having pixels encoding a first identification value corresponding to an application executing on the virtual desktop and a start of an operation within the application;
overlaying at the server a second encoded watermark onto the user interface display upon completion of the operation, the second encoded watermark comprising pixels encoding a second identification value corresponding to the an end of the operation for the application; and
storing in memory an operation performance time, the operation performance time being a time difference between detection at the client of the first encoded watermark and detection at the client of the second encoded watermark.
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Abstract
A method for measuring performance of virtual desktop services offered by a server including a processor is described. A first encoded watermark is embedded into user interface display generated by a virtual desktop when initiating an operation. The first encoded watermark includes pixels identifying the operation and indicating its initiation. A second encoded watermark is embedded into the user interface upon completion of the operation indicating completion of the operation. An action performance time is then computed and stored in a memory. Multiple performance times may be compiled from multiple operations of multiple virtual desktops to assess the performance of the system as a whole.
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26 Claims
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1. A method for measuring performance of virtual desktop services offered by a server including a processor, the method comprising:
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overlaying at the server a first encoded watermark onto a user interface display that is communicated to a client when initiating an operation, the first encoded watermark having pixels encoding a first identification value corresponding to an application executing on the virtual desktop and a start of an operation within the application; overlaying at the server a second encoded watermark onto the user interface display upon completion of the operation, the second encoded watermark comprising pixels encoding a second identification value corresponding to the an end of the operation for the application; and storing in memory an operation performance time, the operation performance time being a time difference between detection at the client of the first encoded watermark and detection at the client of the second encoded watermark. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for measuring performance at a client of virtual desktop services offered by a server, the client including a processor, the method comprising:
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polling image updates to a user interface display generated by a virtual desktop, the image updates being received at the client from the server; detecting a first encoded watermark in the display indicating initiation of an operation at the server, the first encoded watermark having pixels encoding an operation event code corresponding to the operation; detecting a second encoded watermark in the display indicating completion of the operation, the second encoded watermark encoding an event code; and storing in memory an action performance time, the action performance time being a time difference between detection of the first encoded watermark and detection of the second encoded watermark. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method of measuring performance of a virtual desktop infrastructure, the method comprising:
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creating a plurality of virtual desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure, the plurality of virtual desktops each comprising a virtual machine running a guest operating system and having installed a plurality of desktop applications intended for interaction by users, the plurality of virtual desktops running on a number of hosts, each host being a physical computer system, the number of hosts being fewer than a number of the virtual desktops; creating a plurality of virtual clients within a virtual client infrastructure, the virtual client infrastructure comprising a plurality of virtual clients each comprising a virtual machine with virtual desktop client software running thereon, each virtual client being configured to receive display updates of user displays from a corresponding one of the virtual desktops; transmitting a workload definition to each of the virtual desktops, the workload definition identifying a sequence of operations to be performed with one or more of the installed desktop applications, each of the operations having a corresponding operation event code; automatically performing at each virtual desktop the sequence of operations, the performing including overlaying a first watermark at a start of each operation, the first watermark including the event code using encoded pixels and identifying the start of the first operation, detecting a completion of the operation and embedding a second watermark at the completion of each operation, the second watermark including the event code using encoded pixels and identifying the completion of the operation; receiving at each of the virtual clients display updates including the first and second watermarks; and receiving from each of the virtual clients at a central location action performance times for each of the operations defined in the workloads and calculating a performance metric based at least in part on the performance times received from the virtual clients.
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