by Geoff Murase, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, End-User Computing, VMware
Earlier this year, we announced Horizon View 5.2 which includes support for hardware accelerated graphics. Customers have been anxiously awaiting this technology as it opens up a lot of new use cases for desktop virtualization such as support for CAD and other graphically intensive applications.
At VMworld, we’re pleased to offer several breakout sessions that highlight this technology. To give you an idea of what we’ll be talking about, one of our customers who is participating in a session, La Cité collégiale, prepared a short video documenting the performance of 3D graphics in a Horizon View environment. This video runs several different benchmark tests utilizing shared graphics technology (vSGA) where multiple virtual desktops share common GPU resources in the server.
Below is a list of breakout sessions that will highlight VMware’s 3D capabilities. Visit the VMworld Online Schedule Builder and add these into your session mix:
- Monday, August 26that 1:00pm
- EUC5862 – From Library to Starship: How vCloud and View Have Created the Most Advanced Learning and Research Vehicle on the Planet
- Timothy Mori , NCSU Libraries
- Maurice York , NC State University
- EUC5862 – From Library to Starship: How vCloud and View Have Created the Most Advanced Learning and Research Vehicle on the Planet
- Tuesday, August 27that 2:30pm
- EUC5524 – Graphics and Users in VDI
- Geoff Murase VMware Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager
- Will Wade NVIDIA Director of GRID
- EUC5524 – Graphics and Users in VDI
- Wednesday, August 28th at 12:30pm and Thursday, August 29that 12:30pm (duplicate sessions)
- EUC6888 – Best Practices for Deploying 3D Graphics with Horizon View
- Geoff Murase – Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, VMware
- Yves Bourgeois – IT Manager, La Cite collegiale
- Brian Seibenick – Sr. Systems Administrator, SSOE Group
- EUC6888 – Best Practices for Deploying 3D Graphics with Horizon View
In addition to these breakout sessions, our partner in graphics, NVIDIA, will be exhibiting on the show floor, giving personalized demonstrations and answering questions. VMware will also have demos on the show floor in our booth showcasing our 3D technology including using a Makerbot 3D printer!
For those of you who like to get your hands dirty, we’ll have VMware 3D graphics Hands-on Labs available in the lobby of the Hands-on Labs area in Moscone South. You’ll be able to try all flavors of VMware 3D solutions (soft, shared, and dedicated) on a variety of workloads. These will be available to you while you wait to go into the scheduled Hands-on Labs.
We hope you can attend one of the sessions above, visit us on the show floor, and/or see for yourself the end-user experience in the Hands-on Labs area to learn more about VMware graphics solutions. See you there! Have you downloaded the VMworld App yet? If not, visit www.vmworld.com/mobile on your phone to access it. Hope to see you there!
