VMware Horizon View

[honeylay199]

Hi All,

I'm from Myanmar and VMware Horizon View is very new technology trend for developing country.

I would like to know how should we estimate bandwidth to access VDI desktop from out side connection.

Could you please share with your experience in this with ThinApp application access experience.

One more things, I would like to know best used cases to access Virtual Application with AD user account without VDI.

It would be very helpful for me.

[Ray_handels]

It depends on what protocol you will be using and how you set it up.

Blast (which is the protocol you use when you connect using a webbrowser) doesn;t take that much bandwicht. I can;t give you an exact number because it also heavily depends on what you are doing.

PCoIP can be tweaked to your needs. If you don't tweak it will take all available bandwidth available to it. If you are to watch a full HD movie in VDI (who doesn't want to do that) it will take up to 30 Mbit which in my expierience is max.

You can tweak it to only use 1Mbit but it will work a lot less graphical performance wise.. Depends heavily on your needs.

Regarding the applications. Quick answer is make sure to install an RDSH server, install the VMWare agent on it and publish the applications using the Connection server of VMWare.

Your best bet is to just google on Application Pool and VMWare Horizon and you will find enough documentation on it.

[SandroM]

Hi,

Regarding the bandwidth usage it really depends on several things:

1. The protocol that you'll be using (PCoIP or Blast)

2. The type of workload (office workflow or multimedia/video/audio focused).

3. The client device (number of screens, screen resolution, GPU capabilities)

4. Horizon Client (browser or native client)

View currently supports PCoIP (supported only with the native View client software) and Blast protocol (browser and native View client software).

Within the Blast protocol, there are two encoding modes:

1. JPEG/PNG

2. H264

To know more about Blast Extreme and the most suitable application of each encoding mode please check our white paper.

Blast Extreme Display Protocol white paper

Please remember that View is highly adaptive in terms of bandwidth usage and it will adapt to your network conditions to achieve the best user experience possible.

[honeylay199]

Hi Ray,

Thank for sharing and very useful points included.

Are there any VMware product or solution without RDSH servers?

It's licensing is big challenges for us and I would like to use vmware product only. !

Once again, appreciate your reply. 

[Ray_handels]

Hey,

No there isn't. If you would like to only deliver applications using VMWAre you will need to use either RDSH or Citrix Xenapp.

For the record, Citrix Xenapp essentially also is a tool on top of Microsoft's Remote server that enabled easy connection and delivery of applications. In either cases you will always need Windows Server.

If you look at VDI it's the exact same thing. Even though you use Citrix or VMWare you will still need to have on operating system, in VMWare's case either Linux or Windows.

[AaronRose]

If you did not want to use a terminal server RDSH.  You would need the clients accessing the applications to already have the appropriate windows operating system on their computer.  With a remote connection you can host Thinapps on a share drive and have them run a batch file that creates an icon on their computer to link back to the thin app.  You would not be managing this via the connection server and would need to have these external computers joined to the network via virtual private network.  This may not be a supported option but is something that can work.