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Technical white paper | HP Hardware Accelerated Graphics for Desktop Virtualization Purpose of this document Provides an overview of the configuration steps for setting up XenServer GPU Pass-Through technology on HP WS460c Graphics Server Prerequisite Recommend Reading It is recommend that you read "HP Hardware Accelerated Graphics for Desktop Virtualization" for a detailed conceptual overview of the overall solution before proceeding. This document can be found at: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/downloads/4AA4-1701ENW.pdf HP WS460c Gen8 Graphics Server Blade XenServer Pass-Through GPU guidelines Citrix XenServer system configuration recommendations Table 1. Required BIOS setting for XenServer 6 on Graphics Server Blade Setting Power Management Options/HP Power Profile Video Mode for setup and production use (see section: Configuring Graphics Server Blade video mode.) Value Maximum performance Setup mode Table 2. HP recommended minimum Citrix versions for best user performance Components Software description Citrix XenDesktop Controller XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 (XD 7.1 or newer preferred) Citrix XenServer Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 (6.2 sp1 preferred) Citrix Receiver Citrix Receiver included with 3.1 (XenDesktop 7.1 or newer Recommended) Citrix XenDesktop Virtual Desktop Agent Enterprise Receiver 3.1 FP1 VDA (3.4 VDA or newer Recommended) XenServer 6 Considerations  No driver for NVIDIA card is installed on XenServer, the driver is loaded directly on the virtual machine just like a desk side unit after the GPU is assigned to the VM  Because XenServer does not load drivers for the NVIDIA cards, the systems can run in "Setup" video mode to allow access through iLO remote consoles. If you are unfamiliar with the server video modes seen appendix A  XenServer only supports one GPU to be attached to any virtual machine  For best performance, run HDX 3D Citrix ICA and HDX 3D Pro on client devices with a dual core 3GHz processor. (Minimum requirement for a single monitor configuration is a single core 2 GHz processor.) For more information, see the Citrix documentation Tips and Tricks you need to know - Tech Nuggets and Known issues  In order to set more than two cores per socket (allowing for 4 cores or more) on a virtual machine, you must configure the virtual machine to enable multiple cores per socket. Use the following command for XenServer console to enable up to 4 cores per socket and set the virtual machine to use 4 cores at next boot xe vm-param-set uuid= platform:cores-per-socket=4 VCPUs-max=8 VCPUs-at-startup=4  Although XenServer Pass-Through has been enabled for some time, it is highly recommend that you use XenServer 6.2 and XenDesktop 7.1 or newer as they have significant improvements and bug fixes  Known Issues - When connecting to citric GPU Pass-through session with seamless mode, if you attempt to connect 2