HP ProLiant WS460c HP Hardware Accelerated Graphics for Desktop Virtualization - Page 2

Technical white paper | HP Hardware Accelerated Graphics for Desktop Virtualization Purpose of this document • Provides an overview of concepts and practical implementation of hardware accelerated virtual desktop technologies. • Gives IT decision makers, architects, and implementation specialists an overview of how HP and its virtualization partners approach and implement hardware accelerated graphics for virtual desktop. Abbreviations and naming conventions Table 1. Abbreviations and terminology used in this document Convention Definition Broker/Connection Broker Manages connections between end user devices and remote systems/desktop Bare Metal OS Operating system installed directly on system, not virtualized CV DAS GPU GPU Compute GPGPU HDX HDX 3D Pro Hypervisor ICA OA Client Virtualization Direct Attached Storage Graphical Processing Unit (Graphics Card). It is important to note that some graphics cards have more than one GPU processor Synonymous to GPGPU. See GPGPU General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit. GPU technology that performs application computation traditionally handled by the CPU Citrix set of advanced desktop remoting technologies to deliver a High Definition Experience Feature of XenDesktop for delivering high-end 3D professional graphics Virtualization host platform (VMware ESXi, Microsoft® Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer) Independent Computing Architecture protocol (Part of Citrix HDX technologies) Onboard Administrator Pass-Through Graphics PCoIP RBSU Technology that allows hypervisor to directly pass-through a graphics card device to a VM Teradici remote desktop protocol used in VMware View ROM Based Setup Utility (HP Server BIOS) RDS Microsoft Server feature that enables users to connect to virtual desktops, session-based Desktops and RemoteApp programs RDP Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol RemoteFX Microsoft set of advanced desktop remoting technologies RFX Microsoft RemoteFX RGS HP Remote Graphics Software SAN Storage Area Network softGPU Software emulated GPU VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure vGPU vGPU has a different definition depending on platform used: • Microsoft RemoteFX vGPU: Microsoft implementation of software virtualized GPU • VMware vGPU: VMware implementation for software virtualized GPU • Citrix/NVIDIA GRID vGPU: Hardware virtualization of the GPU vSGA VMware specific terminology Software Virtualized GPU (API Capture Model) vDGA VMware specific terminology for GPU pass-through VM Virtual Machine vRAM GPU Video RAM 2