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My First Published Technical White Paper

Today my first official technical white paper got released on VMware.com – titled, Virtual Machine Graphics Acceleration Deployment Guide. It's been a long time coming. It was one of those papers where I could keep adding and adding to it.

The paper talks about the following topics:

Why 3D Matters for VMware Horizon View
Understanding the Differences Between Soft 3D/SVGA, vDGA and vSGA
Prerequisites
Application Requirements and Use Cases
vSGA Installation
vDGA Installation (Tech Preview)
VMware Horizon View Pool Configuration for vSGA
Performance Tuning Tips
Resource Monitoring
Troubleshooting

Hopefully it should cover everything you need to enable your Horizon View desktops for 3D rendering.

There are a number of other VMware Horizon View: New Technical White Papers that have been released recently that are well worth a read. Check.Them.Out

Simon Long

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Steffan Røstvig says:

May 21, 2013 at 8:19 am

Thanks for compiling this! Much appreciated! It has been really hard getting info about the different commands and how to install the vib. I still can't get to the vibs navigating Nvidias download page with the drop down menus... Is it just me or? However googling leads to your page which has the direct link :-)
- Simon Long says:
  
  June 10, 2013 at 9:13 am
  
  Thanks Steffan. I to have found it difficult to find their download, which is why I linked it on my site. Glad you found it.
Jonah Van Tuyl says:

June 4, 2013 at 11:03 pm

Thanks for taking the time on the whitepaper.

We are having an issue where as soon as Hardware acceleration is enabled, whether through the View Pool or through the vSphere Web Client, upon recomposing or restarting the VMs, they get to 95% when powering on and then stall, never again to respond.

Have you seen anything like that?