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Lakeside Software at GTC – vGPU Planning and Optimization

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With GTC coming up shortly it seems like an ideal time to discuss some of the key concepts that we’ll be covering in our talk at the conference about designing and optimizing a virtual environment with complex graphical needs using NVIDIA’s innovative GRID technology.  A recurring theme with us here at Lakeside is a focus on characterizing end-user demand, and planning for successful vGPU provisioning is another thing that’s totally contingent on taking the actual user usage and applying solid mathematical analysis for use case development. This is where SysTrack comes in.

The overall strategy is covered in more detail in a white paper and a MarketPlace report, but to summarize, the key to assessing and delivering a useable environment is understanding the usage habits and needs of the users, including the GPU demand of the current applications they interact with. By continually collecting these details and providing quantitative analysis of the different types of graphical profiles people may require SysTrack provides an in-depth, accurate way to architect a solution that will provide the best possible experience for end-users.

Once this plan has been developed, the next step is delivering and ensuring steady state performance through observation and optimization. Through the use of NVIDIA-specific driver details SysTrack can provide vGPU utilization metrics in the virtual environment to ensure that as usage evolves the profiles and provisioning can keep up. Ultimately this improves the adoption rate by providing advanced users with more demanding needs a seamless, well performing experience.

For more details, check out the talk that Florian and I will be giving at GTC on Tuesday: “S4686 – NVIDIA GRID for VDI: How To Design And Monitor Your Implementation” or our website (www.lakesidesoftware.com) for details about solutions for your VDI or application delivery implementation.

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