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Monitor Cluster Sizing Calculator

Workloads Information

Total # of VDI Machines:
Avg. # of concurrent processes per VDI:

Total # of RDS Servers:
Avg. # of processes for an idle RDS server:

Total # of concurrent RDS sessions:
Avg. # of user processes per an RDS Session:
Technical Notes

  • This interactive sizing calculator refers to ControlUp monitors only. The sizing will be set according to the values you set.
  • The scalability limit of a single Monitor node is 320,000 concurrent processes. The actual limit of VDI/RDS machines per Monitor node depends on the avg. number of concurrent processes per machine.
  • A properly sized monitor node can handle dozens of incident triggers per minute.
  • Based on our benchmark, the following values are set as default values and should be adjusted based on your environment.
    • RDS/XA Server – 100 processes.
    • RDS Session – 20 processes.
    • VDI Machine – 200 processes.
  • For additional information about the Sizing Guidelines for ControlUp v8.x please visit this link.
  • The request for the average number of processes for an idle RDS server, referrs to an RDS server without user sessions.
  • When connecting a hypervisor or a EUC site into ControlUp - it's best practice to use dedicated machines for the data collectors role. You can read more about it here.