VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 7.10, and this release is for now general available from 17th September 2019.
This is a major release, so I hope you like this article I put together.
VMware have made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from.
VMware Horizon 7.10 is now supporting the new NVIDIA RTX GPU’s (RTX6000, RTX8000) HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU (on-prem) I highly recommend you upgrade to vGPU 9.1 and Horizon 7.10 and vSphere 6.7CU3.
I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure.
Vmware Horizon 7.10 have a big update to Blast Extreme, it have a new Adaptive Codec, which replaces JPEG/PNG codec, I am excited to learn more about this and how this can benefits customers and hopefully RDanalyzer.com guys also gets this into their client so we can better understand what’s happening inside the protocol from a user perspective.
Vmware also have a new Codec switching which automatically switches codec based on screen content: I can see a big value for end users with this new feature and this will make experience even better with VMware Horizon.
VMware Horizon 7.10 is a Extended Service Branch (ESB) release, VMware Horizon 7.10 supports now VMware Skyline Log Assist for better logging and analysis.
VMware also made this great video of what’s new
Now, lets dig into what’s new in this major release.
What is new in VMware Horizon 7.10
VMware Horizon 7.10 provides the following new features and enhancements
Its time to plan updating your NVIDIA TESLA M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100, V100, T4, RTX6000, RTX8000 with NVIDIA vGPU software 9.1.
NVIDIA have released new drivers for vGPU 9.1. 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, Alibaba.
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 9.1 and should plan upgrading to XenServer 7.6 or Citrix Hypervisor 8.0
This release includes the following software:
NVIDIA vGPU Manager version 430.46 for the Citrix Hypervisor, VMware vSphere, RHEL KVM, Nutanix AHV
NVIDIA Windows driver version 431.79
NVIDIA Linux driver version 430.46
New Features in Release 9.1
Starting with release 6.7 U3, the assignment of multiple vGPUs to a single VM is supported.
Support for NVIDIA vComputeServer vGPUs on the following GPUs:
Quadro RTX 6000
Quadro RTX 8000
Security updates
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 9.1
Support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version 7 1906
nvidia-smi vgpu -q shows the incorrect ECC state of a vGPU when ECC is enabled on the physical GPU but disabled on the vGPU from the vGPU VM. This issue occurs because data for the physical GPU host is not being reset and is being reused even after reboot.
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
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.
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
VMware Horizon 7.10 supports now 
