VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 7.9 this is a major release and is for now GA 3th July 2019

VMware have made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from. I highly recommend you read my big overview so you can read why you should upgrade to latest release.

What is new in VMware Horizon 7.9

VMware Horizon 7.9 provides the following new features and enhancements

• Horizon Connection Server On-Premises
• Horizon Agent for Linux
• Horizon Agent for Windows
• Horizon GPO Bundle
• Horizon 7 Cloud Connector
• Horizon 7 Deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS
• VMware User Environment Manager 9.8
• VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.6
• VMware AppVolume 2.17
• Horizon Clients for Android, Chrome, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, UWP

Hi All

Its time to plan updating your NVIDIA TESLA M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100, V100, T4, RTX6000, RTX8000 with NVIDIA vGPU software 9.0

NVIDIA have released new drivers for NVIDIA vGPU 9.0 for June 2019 This new-feature branch is supported until June 2020.

I have in this article also included which Public Cloud instance is available with NVIDIA GPUs and which license is BYO or provided by the public cloud provider such as Alibaba, Azure, AWS, GCP. One of the news is that Alibaba is supporting vGPU in their offerings which is pretty awesome.

For a list of validated server platforms, refer to NVIDIA vGPU Certified Servers.

Important:

• Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1 is not supported with NVIDIA Tesla T4
• NVIDIA vGPU 9.0 is supported with VMware Horizon 7.9 7.8, 7.7, 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.2
• NVIDIA vGPU 9.0 is only supported with Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops 7.15, 7.18, 7 1903, 7 1906 in HDX 3D Pro mode
• If you are a customer using XenServer 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 its no longer supported with NVIDIA vGPU 9.0 and should plan upgrading to XenServer 7.6 or Citrix Hypervisor 8.0

This release includes the following software:

• NVIDIA vGPU Manager version 430.27 for the Citrix Hypervisor, VMware vSphere, RHEL KVM, Nutanix AHV
• NVIDIA Windows driver version 431.02
• NVIDIA Linux driver version 430.30

New in this Release:

• New Features in Release 9.0

  • NVIDIA vComputeServer vGPUs for artificial intelligence, deep learning, and high-performance computing workloads
  • Error correcting code (ECC) memory support
  • Page retirement support
  • Peer-to-peer CUDA transfers over NVLinksupport
  • Configurable times slices for equal share schedulers and fixed share schedulers
  • New configuration parameter to specify host ID of a licensed client

  Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 9.0

  • Support for Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903) as a guest OS
  • Support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as a guest OS on Citrix Hypervisor 7.1 cumulative update 2
  • Support for the Tesla T4 GPU on Nutanix AHV
  • Support for VMware Horizon 7.9

Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 1906 which is now available for download.

Citrix Virtual Apps (former name: XenApp) Citrix Virtual Desktop (former name: XenDesktop)

Citrix raises the bar of for user experience and new product release of following technologies:

• Director 1906
• Virtual Delivery Agents 1906 for ServerOS and ClientOS
• Virtual Delivery Agents 1906 for Desktop OS Core Services
• Virtual Delivery Agent 1906 for Linux
• Provisioning 1906
• Storefront 1906
• Profile Management 1906
• Workspace Environment Management 1906
• Session Recording 1906
• Applayering 1905
• AppDNA 1906
• Workspace App 1906 for Linux
• Workspace App 1906 for Chrome
• Workspace App 1906 for Android
• Workspace App 1906 for HTML5
• Workspace App 1906 for ChromeOS

        

Here is a great story about the innovation work that Aston Martin Redbull Racing have done with HPE and Citrix.

“By enabling our Aerodynamists to use a unified workspace to support the design processes, they now have the ability to work faster and produce more design iterations. This results in a more optimised design for each circuit and better results on track.”

Quote – Matt Sorrell, Principal Aerodynamicist, Aston Martin Redbull Racing

Hi All, I am proud to share that I will be speaking at this yearly Hewlett Packaged Enterprise (HPE Discover) which takes place 18-20th June 2019 in Las Vegas, United States. I have been part of HPE independent influencer program the last couple of years and have been having the pleasure to come to HPE Discover and cover this. I have primary been at HPE Discover in Europe the last couple of years. Last I was at HPE Discover in Las Vegas was 10 years ago, so its very special to be back and experience one of my favorite conferences in the year and also proud to share that I am speaking there.