Is adding a GPU to VDI worth it?
The current hardware is brand new:
- HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 (2)
- 256 GB RAM
- 10 GB NIC
- Non-Persistent Disk model
The workload is standard MS OFFICE, Internet, some simple education videos from time to time.
I was thinking adding the Nvidia GRID. I know there is licensing for this system so I will take this in consideration.
Has anyone deployed a GPU to their VDI environment and was it worth it?
Has anyone deployed a GPU to their VDI environment and was it worth it?
Yes, we deploy Hardware GPU - Nvidia Grid - but it depends on the user base, and what applications they are using, and the End User Experience.
e.g. if they just use Word or Chrome - would you add a GPU for this ?
Mostly Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF's and Web.
I want the user experience to be as if they were sitting at a physical computer in the office.
All seems to hinge on what types of applications will be in use over the next 7 years or so, and that is a difficult question. There are increasing numbers of websites now that can take advantage of graphics acceleration, perhaps it will be so common in a few years that no having it will impinge on business processes, but really hard to predict.
The way I see things, it is not really useful with today's typical workplace tasks, but may be in the future.
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