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Product Overview
PCoIP Hardware
Accelerator
SPEAKER NAME
Speaker Title
Date
VDI Becoming Mainstream
> Rapid growth in VDI space
Hosted Virtual Desktop Users
> Business needs are
driving rapid adoption
33% CAGR from 2012-2016
> Multimedia and high end
graphics are now the norm
78
> Workload “peaks” are
difficult to predict
MILLION
Users Projected
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
HVD Forecast by Gartner 2012
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User Experience Challenges in VDI Deployments
1
Increased
multimedia and
high-end graphics
usage
2
Meeting ROI
objectives
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USER
EXPERIENCE
3
Ensure great
remote user
experience
with a GPU
4
VMware Horizon View User Experience
Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View)
VM OS and
Applications
Host
Rendered
Display
VMW pixel
buffer
PCoIP
Soft
Encoder
Send encoded
pixels only
to clients
ESXi
Hypervisor
Hardware
Software rendered pixels (Soft 3D), No Hardware Accelerator
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Hardware Acceleration of PCoIP
Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View)
VM OS and
Applications
Host
Rendered
Display
VMW pixel
buffer
ESXi
Hypervisor
PCoIP
Soft
Encoder
Send encoded
pixels only
to clients
HW Accelerator
Drivers
Hardware
Software rendered pixels plus Hardware Accelerator
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PCoIP Hardware Accelerator
for VMware Horizon View
> Monitors all displays and dynamically offloads up to the most active 100
> Offloads PCoIP encoding tasks from the server’s CPU
30%-50%
CPU usage
reduction
Consolidation
Ratio Benefit
Consistent
User Experience
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PCoIP Hardware Accelerator Portfolio
> Accelerates up to 100 of the most active displays in a VDI server
> Improves user experience and server capacity
FORMAT
PCIe Card for Rack Servers
Mezzanine for HP
Blade Servers
Mezzanine for Dell Blades
(Amulet Hotkey DXM-A)
• Half height, half length
(low profile)
• PCIe gen 2.0, x4
• MXM Type A
• Dell mezzanine form factor
Power supplied to card via PCIe interface
15W power consumption (max)
Single slot passive heat sink
POWER
• PCIe slot x4 electrical
• HP ProLiant Gen8 blade
(WS460c, BL460c)
• Dell 12G M Series Blade
(M420, M520, M620)
SYSTEM
REQUIREMENTS
VMware Horizon View 4.6 or later
ESXi 4.1 u1 or later
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GPU in a VMware Horizon View
Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View)
VM OS and
Applications
ESXi
Hypervisor
Host
Rendered
Display
VMW pixel
buffer
PCoIP
Soft
Encoder
Send encoded
pixels only
to clients
GPU PassThrough
or
Shared GPU
Hardware
GPU rendered pixels, No Hardware Accelerator
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PCoIP Hardware Accelerator + GPU
Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View)
Host
Rendered
Display
VM OS and
Applications
ESXi
Hypervisor
GPU PassThrough
or
Shared GPU
VMW pixel
buffer
PCoIP
Soft
Encoder
Send encoded
pixels only
to clients
HW Accelerator
Drivers
Hardware
GPU rendered pixels
Plus Hardware Accelerator
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Hardware Accelerator Works with the GPU
Hardware Accelerator
• Consistent user
experience
• Improves
consolidation ratio
GPU
• Better application
compatibility
and local user
experience
Hardware Accelerator + GPU
• Unlocks the full potential of the GPU
experience
• Frees CPU resources for applications and
other users
Complementary, not mutually exclusive
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Hardware Accelerator Benefits
Features
1
2
3
Benefits
• When vCPU is overloaded and cannot deliver
the best user experience
Deliver best user experience
• When GPU is generating too many pixels
for the soft encoder to handle
Protect and ensure a
consistent user experience
• Important as workloads become more
unpredictable with VDI becoming mainstream
Increase consolidation ratio
• Up to 2x with heavy graphics workload
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Graphics Acceleration in VMware Horizon View
Task Worker
VDI desktop
Knowledge Worker
VDI desktop
Power User
High-end Workstation
Power User
VDI desktop
REMOTE WORKSTATION
Image Quality / Interactivity / Cost per Seat / 2D – 3D
VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT
1:1
Physical
Workstations
1 GPU per user
GPU Passthrough
(vDGA)
VDI
Shared GPU
(vSGA)
VDI
No Graphics Acceleration
(Soft 3D)
+
+
Light User
Fewer Applications
Basic data entry usage
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Heavy User
Many Applications
Standard productivity tools
Some compute intensive
apps, require some graphics
performance
Workstation class performance
for compute with dedicated
graphics
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Benefits of GPU and Hardware Accelerator vary
> Using both vSGA GPU & Hardware
Accelerator provides best performance
1.8fps
> GPU and Hardware Accelerator provide
large benefits for 3D Workloads
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18fps
CPU +
GPU +
APEX
CPU + GPU
CPU + APEX
> More modest benefits for documentoriented workloads
11fps
CPU only
> Google Earth frame rate improves ~10x
with less than half the CPU
-55%
2.4fps
> About
Canadian college of applied
arts and technology with
6,500+ students
> Challenge
Needed a high-performance
solution to support the
graphic-intensive workloads
of students
> Solution
Teradici Hardware
Accelerator, VMware View
Lambton College
PCoIP Takes Personalized
Education to a Whole New Level
CASE STUDY
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> Result
Ensured consistent,
improved user experience
and application performance
> About
Provides professional technical
services to government and
commercial clients
> Challenge
TSA agents needed secure
mobile access to airport video
surveillance files from any
location
> Solution
Teradici Hardware Accelerator,
VMware View
Jacobs Technology
Enabling a federal agency to better serve citizens
with more responsive airport security
CASE STUDY
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> Result
Forensic quality video provided
the clarity and detail needed to
remotely view and assess
situations and enabled quick
response from TSA staff
Summary
> Improve VDI consolidation ratio
> Provides a consistently optimal user experience
> Compatible with shared GPU support
> Additional Resources
• Evaluation Guide Using Login VSI
• VIDEO: How is Hardware Accelerator different from a
GPU?
• Lambton College case study
• Jacobs Technology case study
• Webcast: Ensuring mission-critical VDI Server
performance
• www.teradici.com/hardware-accelerator
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“
The PCoIP
Hardware
Accelerators make
performance
more predictable,
allowing for higher
client densities.
This reduces costs
in the datacenter
and provides
a more uniform
experience for
our users.
“
> Ensures deployment success for VMware
Horizon View
THOMAS ANK
Network Engineer
University of Portland
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