Hello there,
I am currently testing our new R720 server with grid K2 card.
I want to configure our vm's with vsga hardware acceleration.
The problem is that I don’t see any performance improvement when configuring for vSGA.
As a matter effect, no 3d renderer is faster than when I configure a hardware renderer in the view pool.
we are running:
vsphere 5.5
vmware view 5.3
ESX server with a Nvidia grid K2 card
Windows 7 64 bit client
I did the following configuration untill now:
- I installed the Nvidia grid drivers on ESX / NVIDIA-VMware-x86_64-319.65-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820-bundle.zip
Installation was successful.
- Installed vmware tools latest version
- Installed the view 5.3 agent
- Vm hardware: version 10 (also tried version 9)
- I have configured 3d renderer on hardware in the vmware view pool (also tried to configure this in vcenter)
When working in solidworks i'm opening fairly complex model and try to turn it.
The performance is better when I set the pool to 3d renderer to disabled !
I don't see any performance difference between software or hardware 3d renderer.
Did I forget something here?
I know that vdga gives better performance but we have about 10 concurrent light solidworks users and not much money for more grid cards
I hope you have some good tips to improve the performance.
Kind regards,
Arjan