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OleWeel
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Siemens PLM NX 10 and Siemens Teamcenter Visualization 10

Hi,

We have setup an demo environment with Horizon View and Grid Cards. The environment is as follow

2 x FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60GHz, 196GB Memory)

Fujitsu Eternus SSD storage connected with Fiber Channel

Running vsphere 5.5.0.update02-2143827-v320-1 and Horizon View 6.0.1 build-2088845

One host with Nvidia Grid K1 and the other host with K2 card.

We have configured the K1 card as vSGA and the K2 card as vDGA.

The host with vSGA are running the version 340.32

The vms that are configured for vDGA are using the driver "347.52-quadro-grid-desktop-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql"

The demo environment we are testing the applications Siemens PLM NX 10 and Siemens Teamcenter Visualization 10.

We tried to use a vm on the vSGA that is sharing K1 card, but that was to slow, and not able to work with this. What im wondering about is should it work with vSGA on a K1 card?

We tried to use a vm on the vDGA that have K2 card dedicated, and it is working ok, we may need some fine tuning. Is there any documents/best practice when it comes to these applications and tuning ?

So the main question is actually to run these Siemens applications do we have to use vDGA?

I know we can upgrade to use vGPU and vsphere 6, but we are waiting for the hardware to be certified first.

Thanks for reply.

Regards Andreas
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oliober
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Hi Andreas

We tested both with Siemens NX10.

vSGA has poor performance against vGPU.

Under vGPU, we choose for our Tests the smallest K1 Profile, K120Q.

With vGPU, the results are excellent.

The sad story of vGPU at the moment is the maintenance part. There is no vMotion Support.

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