| Citrix Released Edgesight 4.5 And Announces New EdgeSight for Load Testing |
| Tuesday, 05 June 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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Health and Availability Monitoring This improvement amounts to a "dashboard"-like view in which you can take a look at specific system- and user experience counters. It looks snappier and provides way easier access than the "start page" in Edgesight 4.0. Expanded Presentation Server Metrics The two main improvements are the leveraging of ICA client instrumentation to collect ICA roundtrip times and more precise and more granular metrics for the logon process. Also, Edgesight 4.5 is able to distinguish published applications in Presentation Server environments. User-centric Reporting Edgesight 4.5 is able to analyze, report and diagnose issues oriented on Presentation Server users. You're probably thinking so what? It already did that. Well, you're right. It just works better now ;-). Platform Expansion Finally. Microsoft and Citrix have been kicking and screaming that we should go 64 bit already. Only to find that there was no 64 bit Edgesight client and no 64 bit Softgrid client. Well, Edgesight 4.5 will have a 64 bit client...(come on Sofgrid 4.2!) Oh, and Windows Vista is also supported as an endpoint client. Some screenshots from Citrix Edgesight 4.5:  What's actually far more interesting is that Citrix today, out of the blue, also launched Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing (version 2.5 but who's counting right?). This is a special version of Citrix Edgesight which incorporates the technology they acquired from Thingenuis. It comes as kind of a surprise since they word out on the Citrix street was that they were not going to touch it for a year. Thankfully Citrix is still agile. It will be very interesting to see how (and if) the integration between the two products works. Usually when an acquired product gets "back" on the market this quick it's usually a mass Ctrl+H by the development department. Let's hope it's not the case. The Load testing capabilities of this new product with the Edgesight 4.5 support for x64 Windows yields some pretty interesting possibilities. If the reporting is a good as Citrix says it is, this would make it very easy to evaluate 64 bit computing based on actual measurements. Cool stuff! I'm going to try to get more information about Edgesight 4.5 for Load Testing and share it with you guys. Perhaps even a Premo? Hold your horses. It's not all good news. Pricing for Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing will start at $7500. This supposedly gives you the opportunity to have 50 "virtual" users (so 7500 bucks isn't going to cut if for the x64 testing you'd want) and of course the required Edgesight licences. Still quite expensive though... If you do want to do a Loadtest but you don't want to spend $7500, you could always try DeNamiK Loadgen, which is free for up to 150 users.
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