Virtualized desktop infrastructures (VDI) with virtual GPUs (vGPU) offer enterprises easier, more efficient and more secure management of their IT infrastructure, which is now essential for economic growth. This solution overcomes challenges posed by dispersed workforces and devices, as well as the need for remote work, and provides power users, designers and others who need graphics acceleration with a true alternative to dedicated machines. VDI with vGPU enables access from anywhere to applications delivered as a service, either from your own data center or from a cloud provider.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offers companies a cost-effective and secure solution to their IT challenges. Size and number of employees do not matter. The traditional desktop variant comes with high maintenance, upgrade and connectivity costs, as well as an increased security threat. VDI delivers the best of both worlds: A customizable virtual desktop that can connect to almost any device and provide file access, hosted and centrally managed by administrators, but with a familiar PC experience for end users.

Who needs VDI with virtual GPUs?

Virtual Workforce

The way we work is changing and employees need to work more frequently from remote locations, often with different devices. VDI enables remote access to files and secure management of security and data protection by IT.

AI and Deep Learning

GPUs are the driving force behind Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning because they efficiently process parallelized algorithms and have high memory bandwidth that can handle large amounts of data.

Engineering & Sciences

GPU acceleration is essential for optimizing and testing aerodynamic designs as well as for thermal simulations. Engineers require access to data or high computational capacity. Virtual GPUs enable access to terminals from remote locations, independent of data or hardware.

Virtual desktop infrastructure - briefly & concisely explained

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a great solution for enterprise IT challenges. It provides a customizable virtual desktop that can connect to almost any device and provide easy access to files. Administration can host and centrally manage the virtual machines in the data center while users enjoy a familiar PC experience

Challenges of the VDI

Industries such as healthcare have been quick to adopt VDI because they needed better regulatory compliance and remote access. However, organizations thinking about switching face challenges such as user uncertainty, applications that can't be virtualized, persuasion, high upfront costs, training IT admins. When mastered, VDI benefits can be realized.

Advantages

General advantages

  • Administration is simplified through virtualization on a data center server.
  • Efficiency increases by avoiding complex workstation maintenance, better resource allocation, and faster upgrades.
  • Data security improves through centralized hosting and data management.

Dynamics

A dedicated virtualized machine enables users to access their work resources regardless of location and from any device with Internet access.
  • This leads to cost savings,
  • facilitates desktop management,
  • provides free access from any computer
  • and instant delivery of desktops with similar performance to traditional desktops.

Cost savings potential

  • VDI processing on servers enables use of older hardware and reduces application deployment and endpoint usage costs.
  • Compute-intensive tasks (rendering, AI) can be run on servers outside regular working hours, enabling international companies to develop cost-effectively around the clock and bring new products to market faster.
  • Optimized license distribution and virtually no downtime due to hardware issues increase cost efficiency.
  • The standard PC renewal cycle can be extended to 5 years or longer.

Sicherheit

  • Control access to your data and assets

Virtualization is an absolute must for all industries today

Manufacturing

Improve design, collaboration and time to market
for higher productivity and improved competitiveness through faster design cycles and lower costs. Designers must deliver rapid innovation, respond to market demands, and support a growing product portfolio, often in distributed teams.

GPU Virtualization For AEC

With cloud-based solutions, design can be done anywhere through VDI,
which offers AEC firms numerous benefits such as smooth collaboration with distributed teams and partners in real time, higher productivity and effective version management.

Smart Cities

NVIDIA technology is reshaping cities of the future -
from digital architectural models and building samples to autonomous construction machines and artificial intelligence-assisted safety controls and infrastructure monitoring.

Healthcare

NVIDIA remote solutions enable healthcare workers, from physicians to researchers, to do their jobs anywhere.
Powerful and flexible computing tools enable them to meet new healthcare challenges, whether in the hospital, in the field, or from home. Discover the possibilities.

VDI architecture explained

The concept of VDI uses the hardware of a virtual machine (VM) server and shows the resource allocation on the right. The virtualization architecture is shown below. The server is built with standard end-user hardware (CPU, RAM, memory, GPU, network connections, etc.). After hardware installation, a hypervisor (Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, etc.) is installed to virtualize hardware. The hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager creates a virtualization layer for VMs with their own operating system and applications. NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager installed as software in the hypervisor, in conjunction with NVIDIA software (vCS, vDWS, GRID vPC or GRID vApps), allows VMs to be adapted to the virtual GPU. VMs reside at vGPU layer with NVIDIA drivers and binaries/libraries.
AI in the Enterprise - NVIDIA GPUs and VMware

NVIDIA VIRTUAL SOLUTIONS

Task-Worker
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Simple tasks that do not require graphics acceleration

Power-User
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Medium to high graphics performance

Knowledge Worker
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Designer, Engineer, AI Scientist

High performance calculations

Our recommendations:

sysGen offers validated Supermicro and Gigabyte VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) server solutions with NVIDIA high-performance GPUs and Virtual GPU software. Client virtualization is provided by VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop or CITRIX. AMD EPYC™ and Intel® Xeon® processor models are available.

The financial factor

Virtualized desktops are cost-effective in the long run, but require upfront investments in servers, storage, data centers, image delivery, and networking equipment. Using thin clients and zero clients can minimize operating costs, reduce hardware upgrades, and save on administrative overhead. In addition, there are licensing costs for desktop virtualization. If it is managed externally via Managed Service, one can save costs through central administration.

Conclusion: Ideal for all companies

Small and medium-sized enterprises should also consider the benefits of desktop virtualization. This is because the high cost of supporting and managing traditional desktops exceeds the low cost of PC hardware. Ongoing management is costly and can overwhelm IT departments, requiring testing and deployment for different PC configurations.

Benefits include location-independent working, better data synchronization, simplified management of access rights and software access, and increased security. Centralization through virtualization is essential to the trend toward fully dynamic workspaces in the coming years. If you have questions about virtual desktop infrastructure or need customized solutions in your company, contact our sysGen technology team!