NVIDIA and VMware Enhance the Virtual Desktop Experience
With the release of vSphere 5.1, we are excited to announce the further expansion and advancements in graphics capabilities available from our market-leading virtualization platform. VMware vSphere is the leading platform of choice for cloud computing, desktop virtualization and virtualizing enterprise applications.
In VMware vSphere and View 5.0, we introduced the industry’s first and only fully virtualized 3D graphics adapter, expanding the possible use case for virtual desktop workloads. This unique capability enabled users to run and remote basic 3D applications and graphics that require DirectX or OpenGL without requiring any additional server hardware or specialized graphics adapters. In addition to basic 3D applications, virtual desktop customers could also deliver the Windows Aero experience. Unlike any other solution, this was all possible to any Mac (including the iPad), Android, Linux or Windows client device.
With vSpshere 5.1, we have added vSGA (Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration) that allows the presentation of a physical graphics processing unit (GPU) from the underlying host to virtual desktops guests. By virtualizing the physical GPU, its resources can be allocated and shared across several virtual desktop instances.