VSICM55 - Slide 03-16 - Other Devices
1. Room for improvement:
Information about USB support in vSphere 5.x is very limited. More details can be found in the linked Knowledge Base article.
1. Source:VMware Knowledge Base articles.
2.a. Wrong:
Slide graphic and notes provide conflicting information, which is - in any case - either incomplete or wrong.
Slide graphic:
NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs.
Slide notes:
vSphere 5.1 supports hardware-accelerated 3D graphics for the VMware® Horizon View™ platform using NVidia Graphics Processors.2.a. Correct:
AMD and NVIDIA are supported on Windows and Linux guest operating systems. Not all guests support 3D graphics.
Hardware requirements:2.a. Source:Software requirements
- AMD
- FirePro S7000 /S9000/S10000
- FirePro v7800P/V9800P
- NVIDIA
- Grid K1 and K2
- Quadro 4000/5000/6000
- Tesla M2070Q
Note: Linux virtual machines do not include Horizon View support.
- Windows 7 or Windows 8 virtual machines:
- VMware Horizon View 5.x or later
- vSphere Client or VMware Workstation client
- Linux virtual machines with the
vmwgfxdriver:
- Fedora 10 or later or Ubuntu 12 or later
- vSphere Clients or VMware Workstation clients
VMware Knowledge Base articles.
2.b. Info:
Intel GPUs are not supported in vSphere 5.5. Even if this slide graphic and the "What’s New in VMware vSphere® 5.5 Platform" white paper state differently, this is a typo.
A VMware employee - Linjo - has confirmed this, on November 11th 2013, in the VMware Community Forums.
VMware Communities.