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VDI Capacity Planning with View Planner

Julie Brodeur posted July 3rd, 2020

By Mohit Mangal, Atul Pandey, and Alok Sen Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments are on the rise due to employees working from home all over the world. VDI users can work remotely from anywhere and on any device—like tablets, thin clients, and laptops—while accessing remote desktops hosted on private data centers and in the cloud. Read more...

Figure 3. View Planner VM consolidation with AMD 2nd Gen EPYC with NPS and CCX as NUMA settings

AMD 2nd Gen EPYC (Rome) Application Performance on vSphere Series: Part 3 – View Planner Virtual Desktops

Julie Brodeur posted June 23rd, 2020

By Rahul Garg, Milind Inamdar, and Qasim Ali In the first two parts of this series, we looked at the performance of a SQL Server database using the DVD Store 3 benchmark and a mixed workload environment with the VMmark benchmark running on the AMD 2nd Gen EPYC processors and VMware vSphere. With the third Read more...

VMware vSGA for Content-Rich VDI

Julie Brodeur posted January 10th, 2020

We look at the performance of NVIDIA GRID vGPU technology vs. VMware vSGA stack in vSphere 6.7 U3. We show how vSGA offers similar performance as GRID vGPU when running some common software applications on VMware Horizon 7 VDI desktops. Read more...

Virtual SAN 6.2 Performance with OLTP and VDI Workloads

Julie Brodeur posted June 28th, 2016

Virtual SAN is a VMware storage solution that is tightly integrated with vSphere—making storage setup and maintenance in a vSphere virtualized environment fast and flexible. Virtual SAN 6.2 adds several features and improvements, including additional data integrity with software checksum, space efficiency features of RAID-5 and RAID-6, deduplication and compression, and an in-memory client read Read more...

VDI Benchmarking Using View Planner on VMware Virtual SAN – Part 3

Banit Agrawal posted November 25th, 2013

In part 1 and part 2 of the VDI/VSAN benchmarking blog series, we presented the VDI benchmark results on VSAN for 3-node, 5-node, 7-node, and 8-node cluster configurations. In this blog, we compare the VDI benchmarking performance of VSAN with an all flash storage array. The intent of this experiment is not to compare the Read more...

VDI Benchmarking Using View Planner on VMware Virtual SAN – Part 2

Banit Agrawal posted November 25th, 2013

In part 1, we presented the VDI benchmark results on VSAN for 3-node and 7-node configurations. In this blog, we update the results for 5-node and 8-node VSAN configurations and show how VSAN scales for these configurations. The View Planner benchmark was run again to find the VDImark for different numbers of nodes (5 and Read more...

Turbo-charge View Video Performance

Lawrence Spracklen posted October 22nd, 2012

For desktop VMs using VMXnet3 NICs, you can significantly improve the peak video playback performance of your View desktop by simply setting the following registry setting to the value recommended by Microsoft: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Afd\Parameters\FastSendDatagramThreshold to 1500 [As discussed in a Microsoft KB article here] [N.B. A reboot of the desktop VM is required after changing this Read more...

View 5.1 Performance

Lawrence Spracklen posted May 18th, 2012

In addition to the numerous enhancements detailed here, View 5.1 debuts a number of significant enhancements and optimizations to the PCoIP protocol. In this blog, we detail some of the most beneficial: PCoIP efficiency Continuing refinements to compression protocols and general performance optimization deliver further improvements in PCoIP efficiency and corresponding reductions in CPU consumption. Read more...

VMware View 5 resource optimization

Lawrence Spracklen posted November 7th, 2011

In last week’s post, we discussed 4 simple settings that we have observed deliver significant resource savings, while preserving user experience for typical desktop users. While we discussed the benefits of each setting in isolation, I just wanted to illustrate the overall gains. For runs using View Planner (which simulates a typical office user, with Read more...

VMware View PCoIP & Build-to-lossless

Lawrence Spracklen posted September 22nd, 2011

We have talked in previous posts about the ability in View 5 to disable build to lossless (BTL). When BTL is disabled, PCoIP rapidly builds the client image to a high quality, but lossy image — by default, if the image remains constant, PCoIP would continue to refine the image in the background until it Read more...