DV3260

Comprehensive Performance Analysis of Remote Display Protocols in VDI Environments

As Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) continues its drive towards more cost-effective, secure, and manageable solutions for desktop computing, one of the key challenges is to provide a rich desktop experience to the end-user. In the case of remote hosted desktops, the user experience is predominantly driven by the functionality and performance of the underlying remote display protocol. Remote display protocols transmit the virtual desktop to the client and often decide how to encode and render it in the most efficient manner. Different applications typically have different effects on display protocols as these applications have disparate demands of the display and other resources such as CPU, memory and I/O bandwidth. As such, it becomes important for customers to understand the implications of the display protocol on their environments.
To address that we compare the performance of existing display protocols including new PCoIP protocol. We have put together a framework and a suite of workloads to characterize the experience of remote users with different protocols. In our display benchmarking methodology, we evaluate different display protocols and various workloads ranging from interactive office applications to video playback and characterize performance using several innovative techniques. As part of our study, we also characterize these workloads under various network conditions (LAN, WAN etc.).
In this talk, we present the results of these studies comparing various display protocols (e.g. RDP, ICA, PCoIP etc.) to provide guidance for customers and partners implementing VDI solutions.

Desktop Virtualization

Breakout Session

Performance Analysis, Remote Display Protocol, VDI, PCoIP protocol

1 Hour

Banit Agrawal, MTS, VMware, Inc.
Rishi Bidarkar, Sr. MTS, VMware, Inc.