Hi, I’m successfully testing a server with a Tesla T4 and Windows 2019 RDS. We want to use the server for two different types of users, being: 1. Revit designers and 2. Office365 users.
For obvious reasons, we want to be able to assign vGpu licenses to the first group only and let the standard gpu of the server handle the second group.
Is there any documentation on how to work this out?
Many thanks,
Martin Jansen
Hi
You’ll need two RDSH Servers to do this, one with a GPU, the other without. There is no way to separate GPU Users from Non-GPU Users on the same Host.
Just so you’re aware, both of the use cases you’ve listed are GPU accelerated. Also, the GPU does more than just application acceleration, and it cannot be separated out by controlling which applications users have access to.
Regards
MG
Thanks for the info MG! I guess we’ll just add an extra RDS for the office users then.
Perhaps I can also ask a question on license requirements? We are going to use this server for interns that are part of an education program. We want to have about 16 users on the server max. Can we go for perpetual EDU licenses, or are there restrictions on how to use the EDU ones?
Hi
Perpetual EDU Licenses are fine, make sure you also purchase SUMs as well though, that way you’re entitled to Support and Software upgrades.
Regarding your license choice, for the Students using Revit, you may want to look at the QvDWS license depending on what they’re doing with the software, as the Quadro driver has a lot of optimisations in it for Professional software that the vApps / vPC driver does not.
Regards
MG
Hi, we are planning to redo this setup, this time with a different approach. For this test we have 2 servers at our disposal, both HPE DL380 with 48 cores (@ 2.5Ghz) and 768Gb RAM each. One has two Tesla T4 boards, the other has one M10 board.
The plan is to setup the first server as RDSH offering high end 3D apps like Revit Full and Lumion. We expect around 16 concurrent users accessing this environment.
The second server will host around 42 users on RDSH that are only using Office apps and occasionally startup a Revit Lite app to do simple (mostly 2D) work.
My question is, would this work with the hardware listed and what licensing would be required? My guess is the 42 lite users could do with Grid vApps right? Together with 16 QvDws licenses on the heavy server?