Slow performance in VDI + Flash Player

[juanlopez69]

I was testing running virtual desktops, everything was fine running in an office environment untill I asked my son to test it, he went to miniclip.com and he started to complain about the system performance when trying to run flash games. Because of that I started testing a lot on remote adobe flash applications and performance was the same.

I'm running VMWare Server 2.0, but a friend of mine running ESX 3.5 had the same problem. Do we have a workaround for that behavior? I tried to find something at the Internet but I had no luck.

[mikepodoherty]

Flash performance tends to be a problem with all VDI products with no easy solution.

[juanlopez69]

Not problem it isn't easy, is there a way to solve it?

[wayneoakley99]

try to avoid using RDP, the protocol is terribly in-efficient.

i am working with a customer on just this problem and we have identified the PanoLogic Pano Terminal as one option. it is not a thin client as it has no operating system, it is more or less and extention of a KVM/usb which talks a kind of driver code over tcp/ip and avoids RDP entirely and as such the performance of flash is quite acceptable. the only problem is that it only works in a vdi environment and you must use there VM appliance which acts rather like a broker in setting up the connections and such.

the other choice, that i have yet to try out, is Provision Networks VDI Broker that uses an efficient form of RDP that looks to work quite well. I do not have details but the enhanced protocol is only available when you buy their Connection Broker software.

[mikepodoherty]

As you can see there aren't a lot of good solutions out there - it is

one of the issues that VDI vendors are working on solving.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:20 AM, wayneoakley99

[Rodos]

Also think through your timeframes and the vendors roadmaps. If flash multimedia gets solved in general in 4 months time say, would you make a different decision. You are going to be dealing with the software and result for a few years to come. Eventually we need to put a line in the sand and decide. But I would not be choosing a broker today based on flash support for MM, that would be very short sighted. As always, it depends, I don't know your balance of priorities..

Rodos

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[AdamG53]

Flash performance is indeed an issue in VDI, and is related to the limitations of RDP. I suggest you look at Ericom Blaze, a software product that accelerates and compresses standard Microsoft RDP. Blaze accelerates RDP performance by as much as 10-25 times, and helps deliver higher frame rates and reduce screen freezes and choppiness.

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