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nary4484
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Should I have separate pools for single and dual screen users?

About 80% of the users have single screens so in Pool Settings I have Max number of monitors set to 1.  I currently have a separate pool for the rest of the users who have dual screens with Max number of monitors set to 2.

My question is... can I combine these two pools with the Max number of monitors set to 2?  Is there any disadvantage to having this set 2 with the majority are single screen?  Just curious of this is wasteful of resources.

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BenFB
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

I have around 100 pools and we never create a separate pool for different monitor configurations. We set our pools to the maximum number of monitors/resolution we want to support (keep in mind more monitors/resolution increases the memory footprint of every VM) and this works whether the user has 1 or 4 monitors.

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RyanHardy
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Enthusiast

While I wouldn't want to divide my pools just for the screen count, it would be benefitial for Nvidia GRID users as you can use the 512 MB profile with Windows 10 if there is only one monitor -> double density on the GPU card.

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