lansti
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Looking for a collaboration

Anyone out there running Horizon, appvolumes, FSLogix and DEM in a video editing environment?

I would like to talk to someone who has experience with the configuration of the GPU and settings in your environment.

I talked to the GPU expert Johan van Amersfoort during TechX300 in Copenhagen, and we have configured our environment after his recommendations, but still we experience lagging with video editing and playback of video in browser.

I would have appreciated a little cooperation, either by replying to this thread or sending me a DM

Best regards
Lansti
Labels (4)
Reply
0 Kudos
Jubish-Jose
Hot Shot
Hot Shot

We are using all these, but we use the GPUs for Autodesk and Adobe apps, not for video editing. 


-- If you find this reply helpful, please consider accepting it as a solution.
lansti
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Hi @Jubish-Jose , thanks for reply.
Ok, since you're not using this for video Editing, i assume that you have default settings for Blast Config?

Our blastsettings as we speak:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\Config]
"EncoderH264Enabled"="1"
"EncoderH264YUV444"="0"
"H264maxQP"="25"
"H264minQP"="10"
"MaxBandwidthKbpsPerMegaPixelSlope"="6200"
"MaxBandwidthKbps"="2147483647"
"MinBandwidthKbps"="256"
"EncoderMaxFPS"="40"

And still, from a Thin Client we see that mouse pointer, can lag in the editing application, we see that it lags when playing video in browser...

We are also using AutoDesk and Photoshop, but feedback tells me that works fine, but since we are a few version back on the Nvidia drivers, users get this PS message that the driver is old..

what is your HW spec for machines running Photoshop and AutoDesk?
Do you have a scratch disk for Photoshop?
Memory?
CPUs?

We are currently running two HW version of our image:
Regular Office:
CPU 4, 2 cores per socket
Memory: 20GB
Nvidia T4_2b and Nvidia M10_2b profile

Editing Clients:
CPU 4, 2 cores per socket
Memory: 20GB
Nvidia T4_4Q and Nvidia A16_4Q profile
Editing software needs CUDA enabled.

All these clients are running in different Clusters, so we do not mix 4Q og 2b profiles, and we are running identical clients in 2 sites, with vcenters in each site.

Best regards
Lansti
Reply
0 Kudos
lansti
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Hi @Jubish-Jose , hmm i wrote a reply on this, but somehow it's gone.. so i'll try again.

What kind of HW are your machines running PS and AutoDesk?
We have users running the same applications, but as far as I know, these applications are running ok on regular office clients and editing clients... 
Most of our users will log on through a Thin Client, Wyse 3000 with thinOS 9.x

We have several clusters with different Nvidia Cards in 2 sites:
Our golden images are deploying clients with 4 cpu, and 2 cores per socket.
Memory is 20GB
And our regular office pools are running:
Nvidia T4_2b and Nvidia M10_2b
Editing clients are running
Nvidia T4_4q and A16_4q

And these settings are seperated in different clusters, since we are running different GP Profile. Editing clients requires CUDA, therefore are they on 4Q profile. We might go to 8q, but then again, its going to be a bit expensive client.

I see that users with Photoshop, get a "old driver installed" message during PS startup, and we are running nvidia driver 14.4 (514.08) on these clients, and have a nvidia license server upgrade in front of us.

Our Blastsettings are deployed with DEM:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\Config]
"EncoderH264Enabled"="1"
"EncoderH264YUV444"="0"
"H264maxQP"="25"
"H264minQP"="10"
"MaxBandwidthKbpsPerMegaPixelSlope"="6200"
"MaxBandwidthKbps"="2147483647"
"MinBandwidthKbps"="256"
"EncoderMaxFPS"="40"

We are troubleshooting with these settings, and changing them in the VDI to see if we can tune the correct settings, but we find this difficult. We see that mouse pointer and playback of video in browser still will lag.

Have you configured a scratch disk for photoshop?

 

Best regards
Lansti
Reply
0 Kudos
Jubish-Jose
Hot Shot
Hot Shot

Our VMs are 8 CPU with 60 GB RAM and 500 GB HDD. We use T4 cards with 4Q profiles, but planning to upgrade to L40s and 8Q soon. We are on the latest NVIDIA drivers. 

How many monitors are you using? And what resolution? Does it make any difference if you use a single monitor? Is it using the NVIDIA Encoder?

We also had a mouse lag issue that persisted for 6 months and when we created a new Windows 10 image from scratch, the issue went away. 


-- If you find this reply helpful, please consider accepting it as a solution.
Reply
0 Kudos
lansti
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Hi, we are using 1920*1200, 2560*1600 and 3840*2160 monitors, it depends on the role of the employee.
Thinclients with 3 monitors, we are using 1920*1200...
And Editing seats have 2 monitors with 2560*1600

We see in horizon tracker, that nvide encoding is used.

Best regards
Lansti
Reply
0 Kudos