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.

At Citrix Synergy May 2019, HPE will show how dedicated graphics are delivered real-time by their HPE Edgeline solutions. 

HPE have following solutions:

• Trader Workstations
• Engineering Workstations
• Bare metal VDI – The Naked Truth

Trader Workstation -HPE Moonshot & CITRIX are bringing Mobility and Security to Traders & Developers in Financial Services without compromising on End User Experience. 

Engineering Workstation – HPE Edgeline & CITRIX Cloud are bringing secure collaboration between engineering teams by enhancing systems and application performance and enable IOT & Industry 4.0 transition.

Bare metal VDI- Extending our success in POWER USERS to knowledge workers so that VDI does not need to be the lowest common denominator in terms of end user experience. 

I have helped HPE design & build the Engineering Workstation. Last year at HPE Discover in Europe, November 2018, the solution of the Engineering Workstation powered by Citrix Cloud solution was announced how customers can now use dedicated graphics with either Intel or adding AMD WX4100 GPU or now here in May 2019 add a NVIDIA P1000 GPU. The solutions are incredible how you can get raw dedicated and garanteed performance without any performance overhead of a hypervisor or an operating system that see’s a virtual system. Bare metal is same UX as a workstation, basically HPE is taking the physically workstation at the desk to the edge and making it intelligent with a high user density. HPE is the only vendor who can deliver 4 bare metal VDIs in 1U, which makes them a market leader for Baremetal VDI use cases at the Edge. Customers can as well use Citrix Virtual Apps (RDSH) and increase density, which is popular in the financial industry.

Follow on social media how HPE and Citrix is taking innovation at the edge. #HPECitrix #CitrixSynergy

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 8.0

NVIDIA have released new drivers for NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 for April 2019

NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 is a MAJOR release with many new software features + support for the new RTX6000 and RTX8000 GPUs, which are NVIDIA flagship for Real Time Raytracing. The great thing is now they have vGPU capabilities, which is a BIG NEWS.

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 Azure, AWS, GCP.

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

Important:

• Citrix XenServer 7.5 is not supported with vGPU 8.0
• Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1 is not supported with NVIDIA Tesla T4
• NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 is supported with VMware Horizon 7.8, 7.7, 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.2
• NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 is only supported with Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops (aka XenDesktop) 7.15, 7.17, 7.18, 7 1808, 7 1903 in HDX 3D Pro mode
• VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 is no longer supported with NVIDIA vGPU 8.0
• If you are a customer using XenServer 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 its no longer supported with NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 and should plan upgrading to XenServer 7.6 or upcoming Citrix Hypervisor 8.0
• Customer using Citrix XenServer 7.2, 7.3 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.0 & 6.1
• Customer using Citrix XenServer 7.4 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.0 & 6.1 & 6.2
• Customers using Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1, 7.6 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 8.0
• Customers using Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1 isn’t supported with XenMotion with vGPU

This release includes the following software:

• NVIDIA vGPU  Manager version 418.66 for the Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, RHEL KVM, Nutanix AHV
• NVIDIA Windows driver version 425.31
• NVIDIA Linux driver version 418.70

New in this Release:

• Support for the following GPUs:
  • Quadro RTX 6000
  • Quadro RTX 8000
• Support for the following OS releases as a guest OS:
  • Windows 10 October 2018 Update (1809)
  • Windows Server 2019
• Support for Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V role
• New -1B4 virtual GPU types (4K resolution/1monitor on 1GB FB)
• Support for multiple vGPUs of the following types in a single VM:
  • RTX6000-24Q
  • RTX8000-48Q
  • Above is valid for hypervisor
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
    • Red Hat Virtualization RHV 4.2
• vGPU migration with ESX & XenMotion support on the following GPUs: 
  • Tesla M6
  • Tesla V100 SXM2
  • Tesla V100 SXM2 32GB
  • Tesla V100 PCIe
  • Tesla V100 PCIe 32GB
  • Tesla V100 FHHL
  • Quadro RTX 6000
  • Quadro RTX 8000
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
• Security updates

Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 1903 which is now available for download.

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

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 & Windows 10 1809 is supported with this release.

Another great thing is that now “infrastructure components for Citrix” can be installed on Microsoft Windows ServerCore, which means a minimum OS and only install what is required, no GUI just raw performance, something which a lot of service providers, customers are going to like. This is important for scalability and automation and having best TCO running a Citrix infrastructure. Citrix director & delivery controller now works and is supported on ServerCore (WS2012r2/WS2016/WS2019).

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

• Director 1903
• Virtual Delivery Agents 1903 for ServerOS and ClientOS
• Virtual Delivery Agents 1903 for Desktop OS Core Services
• Virtual Delivery Agent 1903 for Linux
• Provisioning 1903
• Storefront 1903
• Session Recording 1903
• App Layering 1903
• Workspace App 1903 for Windows
• Workspace App 1903 for Mac
• Workspace App 1903 for Linux
• Workspace App 1903 for Chrome
• Workspace App 1903.1 for Android
• Workspace App 1903 for iOS
• Workspace App 1903 for Windows Store

VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 7.8, this is a major release and is for now GA 15th March 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 7.8

VMware Horizon 7.8 provides the following new features and enhancements

• Horizon Connection Server
• Horizon Agent for Linux
• Horizon Agent for Windows
• Horizon GPO Bundle
• Horizon 7 Cloud Connector
• VMware Cloud on AWS
• VMware User Environment Manager 9.7
• VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.5
• VMware AppVolume 2.16
• Horizon Clients for Android, Chrome, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, UWP