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Table 8‑4. Horizon 7 Settings Related to Windows Performance Options
Horizon 7 Setting Registry Value
Disable cursor shadow DisableMouseShadows
Disable full window drag DisableFullWindowDrag
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.
AMD Multiuser GPU
using vDGA
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.
NOTE Some Intel vDGA cards require a certain vSphere 6 version. See the
VMware Hardware Compatibility List at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php. Also, for Intel
vDGA, the Intel integrated GPU is used rather than discrete GPUs, as is the
case with other vendors.
With vDGA, you allocate an entire GPU to a single machine for maximum performance. The RDS host must
be in a manual farm.
With AMD Multiuser GPU using vDGA, you can share an AMD GPU between multiple RDS hosts by
making it appear as multiple PCI passthrough devices. The RDS host must be in a manual farm.
With NVIDIA GRID vGPU, each graphics card can support multiple RDS hosts and the RDS hosts must be
in 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 or VMware Blast protocol. Therefore, the farm must
use PCoIP or VMware Blast as the default protocol and users must not be allowed to choose the protocol.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View
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