Configuring View for GPU-enabled Virtual Desktops
In Chapter 2, An Overview of Horizon View Architecture and Components, we discussed the ability of Horizon View virtual desktop machines to be configured to use hardware installed in the ESXi host server hosting those desktops. In this case, the hardware in question is a graphics card.
As we discussed earlier, an advanced feature of Horizon View is the ability to use dedicated hardware installed in the ESXi host servers, configured with PCI pass-through so that the virtual desktop machine can see the hardware.
In this section, we will perform the initial steps to install a NVIDIA GRID GPU card onto one of the host servers. Later on, in Chapter 6, Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS, we will create a virtual desktop machine image, which will have a dedicated assignment and access to the GPU resource.
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If you are going to be using vGPU, you will need vSphere 6 installed as the hypervisor to support this.
