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VDI Design Guide—Virtual Workstation Interactive Collaboration with NVIDIA Omniverse
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  • Traditionally, creators, designers, and engineers in the media and entertainment sector who require 2D or 3D visualization and analysis use high-end physical workstations. Deploying, upgrading, and maintaining these workstations is difficult and time-consuming for IT.

    Using VDI with virtual workstations instead provides an opportunity to overcome many of the challenges involved in IT management and maintenance as well as offering better collaboration, security, and flexibility.

    Virtualization enables IT teams to deploy and present multiple virtual workstations to a user’s endpoint device. The virtual workstations reside in a data center and IT can manage and maintain them centrally. Upgrading operating systems and applications, and applying security patches is easier than in the case of physical workstations.

    As the volume and resolution of visual data continues to increase so does the IT administrative burden. VDI solutions from Dell Technologies and NVIDIA vGPU technologies provide a stable and robust graphics-accelerated virtualization solution that is designed to meet the increasing needs of mobile users.

    Using this solution, IT departments supporting graphics-accelerated applications, for example TV, film, and animation creation, 3D modeling, CAD, BIM, and so on, can reduce costs and administration, decrease provisioning times, and increase security, while delivering high-quality GPU-enhanced user experiences. Virtualized graphic-enhanced instances can be provided in both on-premises and cloud-based offerings.

    A further complication to delivering a high-quality and consistent user experience in modern working environments is being able to optimize real-time 3D modeling collaboration support for remote users. The NVIDIA Omniverse collaboration suite offers this capability with the ability for a diverse set of graphical modeling applications to work together in remote graphic design collaboration sessions.

    This design guide focuses on enabling 3D modeling collaboration on VxRail HCI with file storage provided by Dell PowerScale. Autodesk Maya 3D modeling software is hosted on VDI virtual workstations that are configured with the Autodesk Maya Omniverse Connector. The NVIDIA Omniverse suite provides modeling collaboration, configured with Omniverse Enterprise Edition hosted virtually on an Omniverse Enterprise Nucleus Server instance that is running on a Dell PowerEdge server or VxRail cluster.

    The validation that this document describes centers on several test cases that were configured to capture end-user performance data, for example graphical end-user latency, end-user frames per second, and end-user image quality. The aim of the validation description is to highlight how the specified solutions stack performs with a specific 3D modeling collaboration scenario.