How-to-video: Enabling NVIDIA vGPU acceleration for HP RGS in a VMware vSphere VM including Multi-monitor Support

Jason Southern (our resident NVIDIA how-to-guy) has just released a new video – “Quick run through how to set up a vGPU enabled VM on vSphere to use the vGPU in an RGS session, and how to achieve multi monitor support.”. It’s available – here. This isn’t as simple as it could be and HP and NVIDIA are continuing to work on making it simpler, in the meantime HP has worked with Jason to provide some utilities (including some based on devcon.exe); many thanks to Gary at HP!

Another 5 minute solution from our Solution Architecture team here in the UK!

Thanks Jason + Gary!

 

Microsoft RDP: End-client H.264 (4:4:4) Hardware-decode Support on existing decoders 4:2:0! Elegant and Cool!

Great pictorial explanation on Microsoft Blogs!

Microsoft have just announced a series of tech preview enhancements to their RDP protocol, which you can read here. I’ve blogged endlessly about the problems of image quality for CAD line data and text with H.264 4:2:0 protocols which have been a long established standard for older encoders and GPUs.

The Microsoft announcement gives a very good overview (with pictures) of some of the visual issues that can arise with H.264 4:2:0 in their announcement – which I recommend looking at, here.

Live Q&A webinar, 18th Feb 2016 – VMware, PCoIP and NVIDIA delivering VDI and high-performance video and CAD applications with Bechtle for a Civil Eng. customer – CSD Engineers

Just a quick blog, to let you know another great webinar is coming up this week with a real customer available for live Q&A discussing how a real deployment was built, utilising Vmware Horizon (View), and Teracidi PCOIP hardware-encoding using NVIDIA GRID GPUs. I think these webinars are usually the most interesting particularly when the participants will be available for live Q&A. Sign-up >>>> HERE.

Free Webinar 23rd Feb 2016: HP, NVIDIA and VMware – Avoiding VDI Pitfalls: Learn from the Experts

Jason has done thousands of real world VDI accelerated by GPU technologies and trains many of NVIDIA’s staff – The guru!

Just a quick blog to let you know NVIDIA’s very own vGPU/graphics/VDI guru, Jason Southern will be on a panel of similar experts for an interactive webinar hosted by Windows IT Pro.

It should be a brilliant opportunity to ask Jason and experts from VMware and HP in-depth questions about deployments. Even if you aren’t sure you can make it – do sign-up as you’ll probably get a recording! I’ve blogged about Jason’s work and brilliant how-to-videos before, so you can check out his credentials in advance from links on my blog, here!

Having the full-stack of experts with deep technical knowledge, as well as the interactive nature should make this special. To have server, GPU and VMware solutions engineers and experts in one place really will cover all your questions and give you the full picture!

Is my NVIDIA M60, K1, K2, K5000 or my AMD Firepro W7000 supported by vSphere/XenServer/Other Hypervisor?

This is a question I continually see from customers and even those involved in deploying the technologies. The reasons behind the answer are quite complicated, but the answer itself is a simple yes or no, and the steps to find it out are very easy, once you know them.

NVIDIA M60 GPUs – how they support CUDA, OpenCL and compute in “graphics” mode

Yesterday I wrote a blog about how to configure the M60 / M6 NVIDIA GPU boards for use for “graphics” mode or “compute” mode and how they were designed for different use cases such as VDI accelerated graphics and HPC (high-performance compute) respectively.

This has led to some questions as to whether “graphics” supports compute and CUDA like technologies. The answer is yes!

Mode switching on NVIDIA M60 (GRID 2.0) cards – modeswitch tool

Update (24th Feb 2016): Jason Southern has published an overview and how-to-guide on this tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAQhiNNFXxQ&feature=youtu.be

 

I had an enquiry this week asking what the “modeswitch tool” is and when a user should use it. Basically a GRID 1.0 K1/K2 user had been to a demo of the new GRID 2.0 M60 GPUs. As he hadn’t got M60 boards yet he didn’t have the tool and hadn’t downloaded it (so hadn’t read the very comprehensive documentation that comes with it explain when and why to use it) but he’d remembered some information from the demo and was trying to extrapolate that to his GRID 1.0 K1/K2 cards.

Awesome Video – ESRI ArcGIS, NVIDIA vGPU (GRID K2) and VMware – Technical Case Study of a Real Customer’s Experience (water and utility management in Florida)!

>> Awesome Video – CLICK HERE (Registration required)

ArcGIS Pro is popular GIS software choice designed and released in the last year or so. It brings together 2D and 3D visualization and spatial analysis in a 64-bit multi-threaded application with a state-of-the-art rendering engine that uses DirectX and OpenGL designed with GPUs in mind. Last week, I was lucky enough to hear how scientists and engineers at a real customer, Southwest Florida Water District (SWFWMD) uses ArcGIS in Virtual Environments (VMware Horizon on Cisco C240 hardware). The webinar promised to cover:

• Best practices for testing, configuring, and sizing your environment
• How to deliver a great experience for your ArcGIS Pro users
• The best way to deploy ArcGIS Pro with NVIDIA GRID and VMware Horizon