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DELIVER HARDWARE ACCELERATED APPLICATIONS USING REMOTEFX VGPU WITH WINDOWS SERVER

DERRICK ISOKA, PROGRAM MANAGER, MICROSOFT

2 | Deliver Hardware Accelerated Applications Using RemoteFX vGPU with Windows Server | NOVEMBER 19, 2013

AGENDA

1.  RemoteFX team 2.  Overview of Microsoft’s VDI solutions 3.  What is RemoteFX vGPU? 4.  Applications in VDI

RemoteFX Team


REMOTEFX TEAM – MICROSOFT SILICON VALLEY CAMPUS

! Microsoft Calista acquisition in 2008 to improve 3D and multimedia experiences in virtualized environments

! Today, the team is primarily responsible for: 1. Microsoft Remote Desktop clients (iOS, Android & Mac) 2. RemoteFX codec (graphics pipeline) 3. RemoteFX virtual GPU components


RELEASES SINCE ACQUISITION

Acquisition in 2007

Server 2008 R2 •  Hyper-V integration •  DX 9 support •  LAN optimized •  Thin client rich desktops

Server 2012 R2 •  DX 11.1 support •  Higher VM memory •  2560 x 1600 resolutions •  Fully conformant with HCK •  Non-Windows clients

Server 2012 •  DX 11.0 •  RDP8 WAN optimizations •  VM connect with vGPU •  GPU management


REMOTEFX VIRTUAL GPU

! DirectX 11.1 support ! Improvements to vRAM allocation (max of 1280MB) ! Scale improvements for NUMA systems – 45% scale improvements ! Increased maximum resolution to 2560x1600 with 2 monitors

WHAT’S NEW IN SERVER 2012?

Maximum Resolution Number of monitors per virtual machine Windows 7 SP1 Windows 8 and Windows

8.1 1024 x 768 4 8 1280 x 1024 4 8 1600 x 1200 3 4 1920 x 1200 2 4 2560 x 1600 - 2

Microsoft VDI


The explosion of devices is eroding the standards-based approach to corporate IT.

Devices

Deploying and managing applications across platforms is difficult.

Apps

TODAY’S CHALLENGES

Data Users need to be productive while maintaining compliance and reducing risk.

Users expect to be able to work in any location and have access to all their work resources.

Users


UNDERSTANDING THE VARIOUS VDI OFFERINGS

•  Single server hosting multiple user sessions for either desktops or applications (aka Terminal Server)

Remote Desktop Session Host

•  Server with Hyper-V role providing personal or pooled virtual machines

Remote Desktop Virtualization Host

•  Server with Hyper-V role providing personal or pooled virtual machines with a virtual GPU device

Remote Desktop Virtualization Host

with vGPU


VDI WITH WINDOWS SERVER

Powered by Windows Server 2012

1 platform • 1 experience • 3 deployment choices

Personal VMs Firewall

Desktop sessions

Pooled VMs

Public Location

Corporate Office Branch Office

Home


Sessions Personal VMs Pooled VMs

VDI ARCHITECTURE OPTIONS

Ease of management

App compatibility

Personalization

Cost effectiveness

Good

Better

Best

User Experience


UNDERSTANDING THE VARIOUS VDI OFFERINGS

OS Virtualization RDSH RDVH

[WARP] SoftGPU

RDVH RemoteFX

vGPU Isolation

and Hardware

Virtualization Model Session Virtual Machine Virtual Machine

Additional hardware requirement on the server-side None None Hardware GPU

Desktop Windows 8.x desktop features (e.g. Metro applications, multi-touch) ! ! !

Aero Theme with Live Taskbar Previews ! ! !

Monitors

Maximum number of supported monitors 16 16 8

Monitor maximum resolution 4096 x 2048 (each monitor)

4096 x 2048 (each monitor)

2560× 1600 (2 monitors

max) Application

s Applications detect monitor as a Remote or a Console monitor Remote Remote Console Application compatibility Good Better Best

Graphics Animated transitions for desktop and applications Good Better Best DirectX level supported 11.1 11.1 11.1 OpenGL level supported 1.1 1.1 TBD

Workload and

Experience

Task worker (e.g. Office) Scale 300+ Scale 150+ Scale 50+

Knowledge Worker (additionally Office, Media Player, Flash) Scale 150+ (Med fps)

Scale 100+ (Med fps)

Scale 50+ (High fps)

RemoteFX vGPU


CPU/software acceleration

Provides 3-D capabilities to sessions and virtual machines at high scale

Optimized for knowledge worker workloads such as Microsoft Office and web browsing

Provides the highest scale for session host and VDI

RemoteFX vGPU h/w acceleration

Provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX GPU for VDI, optimized for:

Best performance for 3-D graphics-intensive applications

Best experience with full animations and transitions

Best application compatibility, running as a console session in a virtual machine

S/W AND H/W ACCELERATION OPTIONS


WHAT IS THE VIRTUAL GPU?

!  Provides hardware accelerated graphics for virtual machines running on a Hyper-V Server

!  Targets enterprise VDI deployments rather than general purpose VMs

!  Virtual machine desktop is rendered in the data center and remoted to a client device via

RDP

!  Virtual GPU allows the render and compute to be hardware accelerated

! Many virtual machines can share one or many physical GPUs on the Hyper-V server


REMOTEFX VIRTUAL GPU CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM

Virtualization Host – Server 2012 R2

Virtual Machine – Windows 8.1

Client Device

RDP Encode Pipeline

Virtual Machine Transport

RemoteFX Display Device

Direct3D Runtime

D3D Application DWM RDP Terminal

Server RemoteFX Graphics Worker Process

D3D11

1

3

5

6

7

8 4

9

2


HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR vGPU

!  Standard requirements for Hyper-V ‒ X64 processor, Hardware Assisted Virtualization, Hardware Data Execution Prevention

!  CPU – requires Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) ‒ e.g. Intel Nehalem, Westmere, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell

!  GPU – typically Workstation or Server class Graphics Cards ‒ DirectX 11.0 or later ‒ OpenGL 4.0 or later ‒ WDDM 1.2 driver or later ‒ AMD FirePro series ‒ NVIDIA Quadro and K series


CONFIGURING HYPER-V FOR vGPU

1.  Enable Hyper-V role 2.  Install drivers for the video card 3.  Enable Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RDVH)

role 4.  Select the video cards you want to use with Hyper-V in

Hyper-V settings 5.  Multiple video cards can be used for load balancing

and to increase scalability 6.  Add the RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter to a Generation

1 virtual machine 7.  Power on the virtual machine


APPROACHES TO GRAPHICS IN VDI

Software Rasterization

•  Use the virtual machine CPU for 3D rasterization

•  e.g. WARP •  No hardware

acceleration for 3D rasterization

•  Performance and UEX limitations

•  Scales well with CPU for VDI

•  Great for virtual machine density

DDI Intercept with device sharing

•  Implement display driver that’s loaded by 3D runtime

•  Remote calls to a worker process with access to physical GPU

•  Worker process renders the desktop

•  Hardware accelerated •  Multiple VMs can

share a physical GPU

1:1 Device Pass-through

•  Map a physical GPU through hypervisor for exclusive access to a single virtual machine

•  Support multiple virtual machines by adding multiple physical GPUs

•  Near native hardware accelerated 3D per virtual machine

•  Low density VDI – maybe 4 virtual machines

Device virtualization

•  Partition physical GPU resources through virtualization layer

•  Guest OS programs the video hardware

•  Potential to deliver improved performance over DDI intercept model

•  Multiple VMs can share a physical GPU

•  Lower density VDI than DDI intercept model


GPU VIRTUALIZATION APPROACHES

Product Approach API Support Virtualization Platform Microsoft RemoteFX Server 2012 R2 w/ VGPU

Shared GPU DDI interception

DirectX 9, 10, 11 OpenGL 1.1 (software)

Microsoft Hyper-V

Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 HDX 3D Shared GPU DDI interception

DirectX 9 OpenGL 2.1

Citrix XenHypervisor

Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 HDX 3D Pro Direct Pass-through NVIDIA CUDA DirectX 9, 10, 11 OpenGL 4.3


Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 NVIDIA Grid Software

Device virtualization w/ GRID Hypervisor

NVIDIA CUDA DirectX 9, 10, 11 OpenGL 4.3


VMware View 5.2 with vSGA Shared GPU DDI interception

DirectX 9 OpenGL 2.1

VMware ESX

VMWare View 5.2 with DGA Direct Pass-through

NVIDIA CUDA DirectX 9, 10, 11 OpenGL 4.3

VMware ESX

Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.2 Shared GPU DDI interception API translation

DirectX 9 (OGL translation) OpenGL 2.0

Oracle VM Virtualbox Microsoft Hyper-V VMware ESX

vGPU & Developers/

ISVs


APPLICATIONS IN VDI WITH vGPU

! Understand and assess application compatibility in a virtual/VDI environment

! vGPU certification – Assess vGPU and avoid blacklisting

! Collaborate with RemoteFX to help customers address application compatibility and leverage VDI in Hyper-V


Thank you


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