The Dell Technologies VDI Solutions team recommends the virtual workstation configuration in the following table for running 3ds Max and Maya applications in an MX7000 modular environment. This configuration provides the optimal performance for running applications such as 3ds Max and Maya for the MX7000 hardware configuration that is listed in Table 2.
4 | 6 | 32 GB | > 250 GB | T4-8Q | 1920 X 1080 | Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit |
Table 14. Virtual workstation configuration for MX7000
We recommend that you consider the following factors when configuring a VMware Horizon virtual workstation on Dell EMC hardware:
MX740C Host Configuration:
- On the MX740c compute host, set the System Profile option in BIOS > System Profile Settings to Workstation Performance.
- If the ambient temperature is not cool enough, consider changing the iDRAC Thermal Profile Optimization to Maximum Performance. This setting reduces the probability of thermal throttling of the CPU and GPUs. For more information, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 Version 3.15.15.15 User's Guide.
- Size the virtual CPUs of the workstation VMs within the NUMA node boundaries of the physical processors. For more information, see Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA Rightsizing–Rules of Thumb.
- Choose and set the appropriate GPU scheduler for your workload and use case. The available GPU scheduler options are:
Best Effort (Default)
Equal Share
Fixed Share
For more information, see NVIDIA's virtual GPU software documentation.
Workstation VM Configuration:
- Set the VMware Horizon Blast Max Frame Rate to 60 using the registry key or GPO. For more information, see VMware Blast Policy Settings.
- Using the VMware Horizon Performance Tracker in the Virtual Workstation VM, ensure that the Protocol is Blast and the Encoder Name is NVIDIA NvEnc H264. The recommended protocol for running graphics workloads in a VMware Horizon environment is Blast Extreme.
- Use the latest version of the VMware Horizon Client. At the time of publication of this white paper, the latest version was 5.4.2.