EUCCOST05-BP01 Gather usage data and hardware requirements in your existing environment
Before selecting a service for your EUC workload, gather usage data in your existing EUC environment. Collect data in different areas, like usage patterns and resource utilization. Usage patterns portray how intensively your applications are being used (for example, hours per day and days per week). Resource utilization details how efficiently your compute resources are being used by these applications (like CPU, RAM, GPU, disk space, and disk IO). Both areas help you select the optimal service for a given application or set of applications. You can gather this data using OS or third-party tools.
Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium
Implementation guidance
If you use a desktop virtualization Environment, your VDI
solution may include reporting tools that can provide you with
the required data. Tools like
Citrix
Director
Alternatively, you may use scripting to wrap application launches and log the usage of applications using these scripts in a file or database that you can use later to analyze the data. Your OS may include tools to visualize and log the resource utilization of your applications.
For example, Windows offers the Windows Performance Monitor
If you do not have any tools available to gather usage patterns, you can conduct a survey with a representative selection of users to understand their usage of your applications.
