Solidworks 2012 - Dell R720 Nvidia K1 Grid GPU Samsung Zero Cleint / Teradici 2

[VMMalley]

Background:

Just fired up an R720 with a Nvidia K1 Grid installed.

Having one of our Engineers test a complex assembly using a Win 7/64bit VM configured to use 512meg vram with the K1 GPU.

Previously, the same Engineer was using the same pooled VM without the 3D hardware setting in the pooled linked clone.

Results:

With a complex assembly, the engineer is trying to turn on 'wireframe' but it is only showing a wireframe for a sub-assembly and not the whole assembly.

These are not the expected results.

Next Step:

I will create another pool and have it point to software only 3D (no gpu), and measure results.

- I am aware of the white paper table provided by VMware and different versions of Solidworks with 3D GPU

[VMMalley]

Ok, this is where I'm at today:

Reverted my floating linked clones to use 'no' 3D; turned off the use of the Nvidia Grid card on my pools.

I have extremely limited use of the Grid card, but my initial observations are:

1. The card makes a major difference in small Solidworks assemblies.

2. Large assemblies, it starts to '@#$#'; out...............wireframe does not work as expected and some buttons fail according to the engineer using Solidworks

3. Solidworks Tech Support does not support any type of virtualization; you are on your own.

I'm heading down this path:

1. No Grid card. I am not getting consistent predictable behavior.

2. I will focus on using SSD (or PCI SSD...fusion io) drives for the for the floating linked clones.

[Linjo]

vSGA will not fit all usecases, maybe vDGA is a better solution for this user?

Just to make sure, are you on the latest patch-levels of vSphere? There have been graphics corruption bugs that have been fixed in the latest releases.

// Linjo