I dig a little digging and didn't find anybody putting the AMD FirePro 7150x2 through the paces in horizon View. If anybody does have any information I would greatly appreciate it.
With that being said I decided to create this discussion to document my testing and to hopefully get some advice on how I can test better.
First Some Background:
I work for a small college in Montana and we currently use Horizon View to create a lab environment for the students no matter where they are, at the moment that lab environment does not extend into the actual computer labs. The actual computer labs are standalone computers and just haven't done the testing to see if we could get all the software to work to our satisfaction in Horizon View. This summer the computer labs are up to be replaced with newer computers and we have decided to see if we can take our labs virtual.
Plan:
My plan is to test the software in a new Windows 10 Image on the existing hardware (which I will detail below) then get a new Server with AMD FirePro (detailed below again) and test again to see how things work. The reason I'm pushing the AMD FirePro cards is directly tied to Nvidia's choice to think that it is OK to licenses a driver. I could continue to ramble the problems with that but lets ignore that fact but rather just now that I have a bone to pick with Nvidia. The final count will be around 90VMs and If I have it my way every machine will have graphics card for it as it is my opinion that windows 10 and future VDI should all contain graphics cards for that "satisfactory" experience. (yes we do have high standards at times)
Applications Tested:
AutoCad
AutoCad Civil 3D
AutoCad Revit (maybe)
ArcGIS Desktop & ArcGIS Pro
MatLab
Windows 10 Image Specs:
These are subject to change based on testing, is also possible during testing and final plan that I create separate images if they need significant more horsepower than below.
Windows 10 Version 1709
8GB of Ram
4 CPUs
Existing Hardware:
VMWare ESXi 6.0
SuperMicro SYS-2028GR-TRH
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 2.30GHz
Nvidia Grid K1 Cards(need to get better model updated here)
Storage is a IBM StoreWize Flash array connected through 8GB FC
New Hardware:
VMware ESXi 6.5
Dell 730
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 2.6GHz
2 x AMD FirePro 7150x2
Storage will be a Adaptive Flash Array from Nimble connected through 10GB ISCSI
I will update this as I go along as I have just about started to testing the applications on the Existing hardware in the new image.
