I found HPT to be quick to install with a single click, and overall HPT serves as a way to get a general feeling of the CPU resource usage of a virtual desktop and an easy means to identify the specifics about the virtual desktop and Horizon Client. Once I had attached to the virtual desktop, I brought up HPT and noticed that it correctly identified the protocol as PCoIP ( Figure 13), and the information it displayed was similar to the information shown when I used the Blast protocol. To test HPT with PCoIP, I disconnected and logged off the virtual desktop, and then reconnected to it using PCoIP ( Figure 12). Until this point, I had carried out all my testing by using the Blast protocol. While working with HPT, I brought up Task Manager on the virtual desktop and noticed that it closely mimicked the information I had found in HPT ( Figure 11). In HPT I saw a big upturn in resource usage while the video was playing ( Figure 10). I wanted to see how well HPT tracked the performance of the virtual desktop under load, so I brought up a 4K YouTube video ( Figure 9) and monitored the session. When I clicked Session Properties, I was able to review detailed information about the session, including the broker that I was using, the name of the user, and information about the client that I was using to attach to the virtual desktop ( Figure 7 and Figure 8). When I clicked the table icon in the upper-right corner, I found detailed information about the session, including the protocol that it was using (TCP), encoder information, as well as the CPU and network utilization ( Figure 6). When I selected the At a Glance tab, I found the name of the virtual desktop, the protocol it was using, its bandwidth and CPU usage, and frames per second ( Figure 5). When I double-clicked the HPT icon, it brought up a window with two tabs: At a Glance and Session Properties. When I brought up Task Manager on the virtual desktop, I noticed that HPT was running as an app rather than a background process and was consuming very few resources ( Figure 4). When I right-clicked the HPT icon and selected Properties, it showed a link to a file in the VMware Programs folder ( Figure 3). The Horizon Agent.Īfter installing the agent, I connected to my virtual desktop and noticed that it now had a VMware Horizon Performance Tracker icon on it ( Figure 2). If you install Horizon Agent from the command line, you'll need to pass the Horizon agent, the PerfTracker switch when installing the agent. For my example, I installed HPT on a Windows 10 system to be used as the parent virtual machine (VM) for linked-clone desktops. When installing Horizon Agent, you need to install the HPT feature ( Figure 1).
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