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Table 7‑4. View Settings Related to Windows Performance Options (Continued)
View Setting Registry Value
Disable ListView shadow DisableListViewShadow
Disable Window Animation DisableWindowAnimation
Configuring 3D Graphics for RDS Hosts
With 3D graphics configured for RDS hosts, both applications in application pools and applications running
on RDS desktops can display 3D graphics.
The following 3D graphics options are available:
NVIDIA GRID vGPU
(shared GPU hardware
acceleration)
A physical GPU on an ESXi host is shared among multiple virtual machines.
Requires ESXi 6.0 or later.
Virtual Dedicated
Graphics Acceleration
(vDGA)
A physical GPU on an ESXi host is dedicated to a single virtual machine.
Requires ESXi 5.5 or later.
With vDGA, you get better performance, but the RDS host must be in a manual farm.
With vGPU, each graphics card can support multiple RDS hosts and the RDS hosts can be in an automated
or a manual farm. If an ESXi host has multiple physical GPUs, you can also configure the way the ESXi host
assigns virtual machines to the GPUs. By default, the ESXi host assigns virtual machines to the physical
GPU with the fewest virtual machines already assigned. This is called performance mode. You can also
choose consolidation mode, where the ESXi host assign virtual machines to the same physical GPU until the
maximum number of virtual machines is reached before placing virtual machines on the next physical GPU.
To configure consolidation mode, edit the /etc/vmware/config file on the ESXi host and add the following
entry:
vGPU.consolidation = "true"
3D graphics is only supported when you use the PCoIP protocol. Therefore, the farm must use PCoIP as the
default protocol and users must not be allowed to choose the protocol.
Overview of Steps for Configuring 3D Graphics
This overview describes tasks that you must perform in vSphere and View to configure 3D graphics. For
more information about setting up NVIDIA GRID vGPU, see the document NVIDIA GRID vGPU
Deployment Guide for VMware Horizon 6.1. For more information about setting up vDGA, see the
document Graphics Acceleration in View Virtual Desktops.
1 Set up an RDS host virtual machine. For more information, see Chapter 7, “Setting Up Remote Desktop
Services Hosts,” on page 87.
2 Add the graphics PCI device to the virtual machine. See "Other Virtual Machine Device Configuration"
in the chapter "Configuring Virtual machine Hardware" in the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
document. Be sure to click Reserve all memory when adding the device.
3 On the virtual machine, install the device driver for the graphics card.
4 Add the RDS host to a manual farm, create an RDS desktop pool, connect to the desktop using PCoIP,
and activate the display adapter.
If the 3D option is vGPU, you can now use the RDS host as the parent virtual machine for an automated
farm. See “Create an Automated Farm,” on page 109.
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