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© 2013 Teradici Corporation.
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Product Overview PCoIP Hardware Accelerator Date SPEAKER NAME Speaker Title
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. > Rapid growth in VDI space > Business needs are driving rapid adoption > Multimedia and high end graphics are now the norm > Workload “peaks” are difficult to predict 3 VDI Becoming Mainstream 33% CAGR from 2012-2016 Hosted Virtual Desktop Users 78 HVD Forecast by Gartner 2012 MILLION Users Projected 20122013201420152016
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. User Experience Challenges in VDI Deployments 4 1 Increased multimedia and high-end graphics usage 2 Meeting ROI objectives 3 Ensure great remote user experience with a GPU USER EXPERIENCE
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. 5 VMware Horizon View User Experience Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View) ESXi Hypervisor Hardware Send encoded pixels only to clients VM OS and Applications Host Rendered Display PCoIP Soft Encoder VMW pixel buffer Software rendered pixels (Soft 3D), No Hardware Accelerator
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. 6 Hardware Acceleration of PCoIP Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View) ESXi Hypervisor Hardware Send encoded pixels only to clients VM OS and Applications Host Rendered Display PCoIP Soft Encoder HW Accelerator Drivers Software rendered pixels plus Hardware Accelerator VMW pixel buffer
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. > Monitors all displays and dynamically offloads up to the most active 100 > Offloads PCoIP encoding tasks from the server’s CPU 7 PCoIP Hardware Accelerator for VMware Horizon View Consolidation Ratio Benefit Consistent User Experience 30%-50% CPU usage reduction
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. > Accelerates up to 100 of the most active displays in a VDI server > Improves user experience and server capacity 8 PCoIP Hardware Accelerator Portfolio PCIe Card for Rack Servers Mezzanine for HP Blade Servers Mezzanine for Dell Blades (Amulet Hotkey DXM-A) FORMAT Half height, half length (low profile) PCIe gen 2.0, x4 MXM Type ADell mezzanine form factor POWER Power supplied to card via PCIe interface 15W power consumption (max) Single slot passive heat sink SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PCIe slot x4 electrical HP ProLiant Gen8 blade (WS460c, BL460c) Dell 12G M Series Blade (M420, M520, M620) VMware Horizon View 4.6 or later ESXi 4.1 u1 or later
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. 9 GPU in a VMware Horizon View Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View) ESXi Hypervisor Hardware Send encoded pixels only to clients VM OS and Applications Host Rendered Display PCoIP Soft Encoder GPU Pass- Through or Shared GPU VMW pixel buffer GPU rendered pixels, No Hardware Accelerator
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. 10 PCoIP Hardware Accelerator + GPU Windows Desktop VM (VMware Horizon View) ESXi Hypervisor Hardware Send encoded pixels only to clients VM OS and Applications Host Rendered Display GPU Pass- Through or Shared GPU VMW pixel buffer GPU rendered pixels HW Accelerator Drivers PCoIP Soft Encoder Plus Hardware Accelerator
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. Hardware Accelerator Works with the GPU 11 Complementary, not mutually exclusive Unlocks the full potential of the GPU experience Frees CPU resources for applications and other users Hardware Accelerator + GPU Consistent user experience Improves consolidation ratio Hardware Accelerator Better application compatibility and local user experience GPU
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. 12 Hardware Accelerator Benefits FeaturesBenefits When vCPU is overloaded and cannot deliver the best user experience When GPU is generating too many pixels for the soft encoder to handle Deliver best user experience 1 Important as workloads become more unpredictable with VDI becoming mainstream Protect and ensure a consistent user experience 2 Up to 2x with heavy graphics workloadIncrease consolidation ratio 3
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. Graphics Acceleration in VMware Horizon View Heavy User Many Applications Light User Fewer Applications Task Worker VDI desktop Knowledge Worker VDI desktop Power User VDI desktop Basic data entry usageStandard productivity toolsSome compute intensive apps, require some graphics performance Image Quality / Interactivity / Cost per Seat / 2D – 3D VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT 13 REMOTE WORKSTATION Workstation class performance for compute with dedicated graphics 1:1 Physical Workstations 1 GPU per user GPU Passthrough (vDGA) VDI Shared GPU (vSGA) VDI No Graphics Acceleration (Soft 3D) + + Power User High-end Workstation
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. Benefits of GPU and Hardware Accelerator vary > Using both vSGA GPU & Hardware Accelerator provides best performance > GPU and Hardware Accelerator provide large benefits for 3D Workloads > Google Earth frame rate improves ~10x with less than half the CPU > More modest benefits for document- oriented workloads -55% 1.8fps 2.4fps 11fps 18fps CPU only CPU + APEX CPU + GPU + APEX CPU + GPU
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. Lambton College CASE STUDY PCoIP Takes Personalized Education to a Whole New Level >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 >Result Ensured consistent, improved user experience and application performance
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. Jacobs Technology CASE STUDY Enabling a federal agency to better serve citizens with more responsive airport security >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 >Result Forensic quality video provided the clarity and detail needed to remotely view and assess situations and enabled quick response from TSA staff
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© 2013 Teradici Corporation. > Ensures deployment success for VMware Horizon View > 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?VIDEO: How is Hardware Accelerator different from a GPU? Lambton College case study Jacobs Technology case study Webcast: Ensuring mission-critical VDI Server performanceWebcast: Ensuring mission-critical VDI Server performance www.teradici.com/hardware-accelerator Summary 17 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. THOMAS ANK Network Engineer University of Portland “ “
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