Hello again everyone,
I'm at the point where i'm ready to move our developers off of Citrix VDI in a Box to VMware View 5.3. I have deployed View to my end users (approx 20 of them) and for the most part the images are running well. We have added 2 x Teradici APEX 2800LP cards into our servers which have seemed to greatly help offloading.
My developers started beta testing view and immediately started complaining about it being sluggish, dragging windows from one screen to another is a bit slow. In my mind it seems normal because perhaps i'm just used to View. They showed me their Citrix desktops, in dual screen mode , dragging windows is very fast and smooth, yet when we flip back to their View image, even I can see it is a bit slow.
My regular staff are using Tera 2 Zero Clients and things seem to be working ok. Our developers are using their own laptops and the software View client to connect.
When we built the base image, we ran thru all of the optimization recommendations. I used the tool to disable just about everything is asked us to. Pools have been deployed, we have increased the video card memory in the pool to 512MB per node, verified the Teradici drivers are installed and offloading, yet there is noticeable lag.
They are worried because it lags with nothing running, they feel its going to get brutal when they load Eclipse and other tools that they simply don't even want to try and wish to stay with Citrix. For us this is not an option as we've dropped Citrix and are no longer paying for licensing or support.
Our servers are absolute beats so i don't think the problem is coming from them
4 x Super Micro with 2 x 6 Core Zeon's each
128GB Each
6 x Intel 520 Series 450GB SSD in a RAID 1 (per node)
2 x Gigi links teamed
Total memory consumption on the server is about 70GB ./ 131
Total CPU usage on the server is less than 25%
Each ESXi Host is running 5.5 Update 1
vCenter Server is 5.5.0 U1
Logs and performance counters are not showing anything at the host level being constrained.
Desktops are setup as follows:
Hardware Version 10
4 Cores Each
10GB RAM Each
100GB Thin Provisioned Disks Each
NO persistant disk
NO folder redirection
Windows 7 x64 (fully optimized per VMware)
I'm at a loss, i just don't know what else i can look at or tweak to make moving across multiple screens faster. Can anyone offer any tips or recommendations ? It would be greatly appreciated
Thank You