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one of the biggest issues about RDP (the default protocol for viewing desktops under VDI) is that is has awful graphcal abilities. any programme that utilsed you GPU in any fancy way, ie 3D acceleration to run 3D diagrams or Flash and graphicall intensive web sites suffer appalling performance over lower grade bandwidth. you could aleivate this if you utilised CDS from Citrix (it uses the ICA protocol to deliver the desktop experiance) ICA is a much better delivery method.

Personally I tend to view this in the same way that I view Server based computing, Applications like Office and DB fount end, messenging etc. no issues whatsoever. graphically intensive application I would tend to shy away from. VDI has the advantage in that CPU intensive local client applications have a better chance of running adequately than under a Citix/TS environment.

AutoCAD might work but redraw in my opionion will not give adequate performance to be of use to the designers, AutoCAD Player though is a different matter all together, this should return an adequate user experiance to make it useable.

Hope this helps in some small way

Kind Regards

Tom Howarth

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Tom Howarth VCP / VCAP / vExpert
VMware Communities User Moderator
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