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Delivering Transformational User Experience with Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport and NVIDIA GRID.Kiran Rao – Director, Product Management at VMwareLuke Wignall – Sr. Manager, Performance Engineering at NVIDIA

Challenges for Virtual GraphicsProfessional graphics workloads require great user experience in both LAN & WAN environments.

UXRequire “snappy”

experience

Rely on heavy

encoding and

decoding

User density is

limited by CPU

bottleneck

Server

vSphere

Quadro Driver

VMware Horizon Gets Even Better with NVIDIA GRID

NVIDIA GRID

Virtual PC

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NVIDIA Tesla GPU

H.264 Encode

NVIDIA GRID

Virtual Workstation

NVIDIA

Graphics DriverNVIDIA Quadro

Driver

NVIDIA GRID

vGPU manager

vGPU vGPU

Scheduling – 3D, CE, NVENC, NVDEC

Blast Extreme Protocol

Blast Extreme: Unified Protocol for All VMware Products

• A new VMware controlled protocol for a richer app & desktop experience

• Protocol optimized for mobile and overall lower client TCO

• Horizon remote experience features work with Blast Extreme and updated Horizon clients

• Performance on par or exceeding all competitive protocols

• Rapid client proliferation from strong Horizon Client ecosystem

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Horizon Clients / Broadest Support For Every Use Case

Feature-Rich User Experience

Blast Extreme Designed for All Use Cases

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Hosted Apps & RDS

Desktops

Printing Scanning & Imaging Devices

USB Audio In/OutSmart Card

Client DriveRedirection

Windows Media Redirection

File TypeAssociation

Unified Communi-

cations

Webcams

Session Enhancement SDK

RDP VC Bridge SDK

Mac iOSLinuxWindows Android Chrome OS HTML (Blast Only)

SDKsWindows VDI, RDSH Apps/Desktop & Linux VDI

Thin Clients

Blast Extreme – A Year Of Progress

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Use Less Bandwidth:Up to 50% reduction

Broad Client Support: 125+ thin/zero clients certified

GRID Optimized:Superior 3D App

Experience

Network Friendly: Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport

Monitoring:More insight and control

WAN Optimized:Faster access across WAN

Tesla Lineup for GRID

The most powerful data center GPUs targeted at graphics virtualization

M10 M6 M60

GPU Quad Mid-level Maxwell Single High-end Maxwell Dual High-end Maxwell

CUDA Cores 2560 (640 per GPU) 1536 4096 (2048 per GPU)

Memory Size 32 GB GDDR5 (8 GB per GPU) 8 GB GDDR5 16 GB GDDR5 (8GB per GPU)

H.264 1080p30 streams 28 18 36

Max vGPU instances 64 16 32

Form Factor PCIe 3.0 Dual Slot (rack servers) MXM (blade servers) PCIe 3.0 Dual Slot (rack servers)

Power 225W 100W (75W opt) 240W / 300W (225W opt)

Thermal passive bare board active / passive

USER DENSITYOptimized

BLADEOptimized

PERFORMANCEOptimized

NVIDIA Blast Extreme Acceleration

• Reduces overall latency

• Offloads CPU workload to GPU

• Increases scalability

• Improves user experience

• Lowers N/W bandwidth demand

• Supported with single and multiple

monitor use case

GRID GPU

3D

HW Encoder

Framebuffer

AppsApps

Apps

Graphics

commands

Context/Display Capture

Render Target

Front Buffer

H.264

streams

Remote Client

Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport

Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport: BEAT

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Maintain a Great User Experience

Across a Wide Variety of Network Types:Dynamically Adjust to:

Corporate LAN

Public Wi-Fi

Mobile networks

Varying speeds

Severe packet loss

• Excellent

– TCP Only

– Ideal for Corporate LAN

• Typical (Default)

– UDP for protocol transport, TCP for control and broker communications

– Falls back to TCP if UDP connection is blocked

– Ideal for most situations. Dynamically adjusts for packet loss and jitter

• Poor

– UDP Only

– For protocol transport, control and broker communications

– Requires VMware Unified Access Gateway 2.9 or later

– Necessary when network conditions are so poor can’t make a broker connection typically greater than 20% packet loss

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Blast Extreme Adaptive Protocol Settings

Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport – by the Numbers

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Improvements

Up to 50% bandwidth

reduction out-of-box

Over 4x faster file transfers for

cross-continental connections~100 ms with slight packet loss (1%)

over previous

Over 6x faster file transfers for

trans-continental connections~200 ms with slight packet loss (1%)

over previous versions

Delivers with Challenging Networks

Over 13x higher average frame rates

under extremely poor network conditionsLow bandwidth, high latency, significant

packet loss (1.5 Mbps, 200 ms, 20%)

Over 70% higher average frame rates

under poor network conditionsLow bandwidth, high latency, and medium

packet loss (1.5 Mbps, 200 ms, 5%)

Over 57% higher average frame rates

with high latency and slight packet lossLow bandwidth, high latency, slight

packet loss (10 Mbps, 200 ms, 1%)

Over 2x faster file transfers under

extreme network conditionsLow bandwidth, high latency, significant

packet loss (1.5 Mbps, 200 ms, 20%)

Windows 10 requires more resources for improvement User Experience

Windows 10 requires more GPU frame bufferWindows 10 requires more CPU cycles

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64 x Tesla M10-1B VMs on a host running LoginVSI knowledge worker workload

15% more CPU utilization

Bandwidth: Office Worker Use Case – Single Display 1080p

Bandwidth: Office Worker Use Case – Dual Display 1080p

Host CPU offloadingBlast Extreme decreases CPU utilization on the host, up to 42%

Lower is

better

63 x Tesla M10-1B VMs on a host running LoginVSI knowledge worker workload and 1 additional VM measuring latency

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NOGPU-Blast-H.264 CPU GPU-BLAST-H.264CPU

GPU-BLAST-NVENC

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CPU only vs. NVIDIA GRID

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Horizon 7 with PCoIP - No GPU Horizon 7 with Blast Extreme and H.264 HW

GPU with NVENC provide an average positive increase to UX of 34%

Higher is

better

Testing ran on two identical systems, CPU system was loaded up to 60-80% utilization, the GPU system ran the same workload

User Experience Scale

1 Unacceptable, unusable -

fire someone in IT!

2 Barely useable, borderline,

but I’ll get tired of this soon

3 Tolerable, I guess I can

make do

4 Pretty good for a virtual

desktop

5 Outstanding - as good (or

almost) as physical

+20% +5%+19% +65%

+6% +21%+55% +26%

+9%+13%+13% +30% +68%+133%

CLICK TO PHOTON SIMPLIFIEDCLICK-TO-PHOTON CAPTURES THE OVERALL LATENCY

Mouse button

released

Mouse click

processed

Packetized and

encoded

Packet Received Packed Decoded

Frame displayedPacket

transmitted

Network Latency on the WAN

(i.e. 50ms)

Network Latency on the WAN

(i.e. 50ms)

Access Device

Server

CLICK-TO-PHOTON LATENCY

Network Latency

Packet ReceivedMouse click

processed

New Frame

renderedFrame Captured via

NVIDIA NVFBC

Frame Encoded via

NVIDIA NVENC

Frame

transmitted

Packet Decoded Application

CLICK to PHOTON Latency

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GPU

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JPEG/PNG

Blast ExtremeNo GPU -

H.264Software

Blast ExtremeM10-1B -

H.264Software

Blast ExtremeM10-1B -

H.264Hardware

Idle, 1 VM

Scale, 64VMs

Comparing latency of single VM and at scale(80%) at <1ms network latency

Lower is

better

63 x Tesla M10-1B VMs on a host running LoginVSI knowledge worker workload and 1 additional VM measuring latency

ms

Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport User Experience: FPS in LAN & WAN Environments

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FPS:10Mbps, 200ms RTT

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FPS: LAN, 0% PL, 0ms RTT

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Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport - Demo

Instant Clone Support for NVIDIA GRID vGPU Desktops

Overview

• Option to provision vGPU desktops using Instant Clones

• Admin to select profile during pool creation. Note: only 1 profile supported per ESX cluster

• Compatible with NVIDIA GRID M Series

Benefits

• Broader set of use cases – no longer have to choose between better provisioning and better 3D graphics

• 2x faster provision over View Composer

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High Availability with vSphere 6.0 U3/6.5

• vSphere HA enables high availability of VMs in case of server HW failure, by immediately detecting the failure (and thus VM crash) and restarting the VM on another host in the cluster

• vSphere HA is now extended to NVIDIA GRID vGPU-backed VMs with vSphere 6.5/6.0 U3

• If a vGPU server fails with vSphere HA, the VMs will automatically be started on another vGPUenabled host on the same cluster

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App

Volumes

Sizing Your Virtual Desktop for High Performance Graphics

High Performance VDI is NOT Your Mother’s VDI

Density

CPU

Memory

IOPS

Rich Graphics

Design First for User ExperienceEnsure the right level of performance and then use that determine density

User experience must be the equivalent of

they are used to today

Determine how many users you can put on a host based

on requirements of users

One Size Does Not Fit AllDifferent users have different requirements

• Quadro features

• 512MB-1GB

– Office user

• 1-2GB

– Power user

• 2-4GB

– Designer/

engineer

• 8GB

– CUDA

• At least 2-8 vCPUs

• Recommend at

least 4 vCPUs for

Power Users

• 4GB

– Power User

• 8GB

– Mid Eng./Video

• 16GB

– Advanced Eng.

• 32GB

– CAD/CAM

• 64GB

– Digital Mock Up

• vGPU

– 64 bit Windows

– 64 bit Linux

• Install

– VM Tools

– View Agent

– NVIDIA driver

(vGPU)

vGPUvCPU vRAM OS

Performance

User

requirements

Mobility

Security

• CAD users can demand more than 1TB of

storage per desktop

• SIZE and PERFORMANCE matter now

• Virtual SAN – SSD based local storage

• Understand local storage capacity

• All Flash based SAN

Sizing Rich Graphics User: StorageStorage is still a critical factor in performance

Things to think about

with storage

VM VM VM VM

VMware vSphere

Virtual SAN

…

Virtual SAN

Clustered Datastore

Determine Business Drivers

1-2+ weeks

Determine Proof of Concept Scope and

Success Criteria

1-2 weeks

Order GRID enabled Servers per Scope

2-3 weeks

Work with Infrastructure team in parallel on

network address and server infrastructure

2-3 weeks

Rack Servers

1-2 days

Install vSphere 6 and NVIDIA GRID drivers

4 hours

Install vCenter 6 and VMware Horizon 6.2

4 hours

Create GRID enabled vCenter cluster

30 minutes

Create GM images perscope definition

1 day

Create desktop pools

1 day

Invite Pilot Users to Start Testing

Run Pilot and Measure Results

4-8 weeks

Present Results and Move to Next Phase

2-4 weeks

Getting a True Proof Of Concept Up and RunningDetermine business drivers, scope, and success criteria early to ensure successful pilot phase

• Start with the work they actually do today

• Understand their full workflow

• Leverage real files, data and models

• Compare experience on current system to

virtual system

• Score overall experience on a scale of 1-5

Leverage Real User Testing Define acceptance criteria and get feedback

Define User

Acceptance Criteria Monitor

ConfigureRun

Monitor for Proactive ManagementLeverage granular insights to track trends and optimize environment

How do different projects impact usage?

Are there unused cycles during night hours?

Will environment updates impact users?

Wrap Up

SCALABILITY COLLABORATION EFFICIENCY SECURITY

50% 20,000+

PRODUCTIVITY

14,700 5,000 $10M+improvement in

workflow cycle time

for an engineering

firm’s remote

CATIA users

engineers accessing

a single, centralized

desktop image for

their virtualized

Siemens NX

workstations

km between an

engineering

firm’s Revit teams

collaborating from

offices in Holland

and Australia

employees at a

global transportation

company receiving

remote video

training instead of

traveling

product development

savings for an

automaker through

intellectual property

protection and real-

time supplier

negotiations

Imagine the Possibilities…Amazing benefits of deploying VMware Horizon with NVIDIA GRID

NVIDIA Blast Extreme Acceleration

User Experience

• 6-13% higher average FPS

• 27-51ms less latency

• 48-89% bandwidth reduction

with TCP and 19% with UDP

You don’t have to chose, you get all at the same time

Source: NVIDIA GRID Performance Engineering Lab

Improves User Experience AND Reduces TCO!

Scalability

• 18% higher user density for

ESRI ArcGIS Pro

Resources

VMware & NVIDIA GRID Test DriveTry graphics accelerated virtual desktops for free

• Instant access to the latest NVIDIA GRID

with VMware Horizon 7

• Experience workstation applications like

AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS, and ArcGIS Pro

in a remote desktop

• Prove to yourself in less than an hour

virtual workstations are here today

www.nvidia.com/trygrid

Free Cloud Trial

Resources

• NVIDIA GRID & VMware Horizon Deployment Guide

– http://www.nvidia.com/object/grid-vgpu-deployment-guide.html

• VMware Horizon with View on Virtual SAN Reference Architecture

– http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-horizon-view-virtual-san-reference-architecture.pdf

• NVIDIA GRID Certified Servers

– http://www.nvidia.com/object/enterprise-virtualization-where-to-buy.html

• ESRI ArcGIS Pro App Guide with VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID vGPU

– http://www.nvidia.com/esriappguide

• Autodesk Revit App Guide with VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID vGPU

– http://www.nvidia.com/revitappguide

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