Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 2109. So its time to upgrade your environment before Winter, a good time to clean up and update your environment and start good before winter is here :O).
Important features are support for the new bloomberg5 keyboard, improved UX support for Microsoft Teams and Windows 11 across all Citrix components.
Release 7 2109 is now available for download, 1th October, 2021.
Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 2106. So its time to upgrade your environment before Authem, a good time to clean up and update your environment and start good before fall is here :O).
Release 7 2106 is now available for download, August, 2021. *This blogpost also includes release notes about components released in September 2021.
It’s time to plan updating your NVIDIA Enterprise GPUs. NVIDIA vGPU Software 13 is now GA since August 2021.
NVIDIA vGPU software includes vWS, vCS, vPC, and vApps.
If you got any of followin NVIDIA GPU’s: A10, A16, A30, A40, A100, M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100, V100, T4, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, RTX6000, RTX8000 If you are interested in a quick overview of which NVIDIA enterprise GPU is supporting which hypervisor, Guest os and remoting technology, I highly recommend you check out this link from NVIDIA that provides the NVIDIA vGPU software product support matrix.NVIDIA vGPU software 13 is supported until August 2024. NVIDIA vGPU software 13 is a Long-Termin Support Branch.
I this article, I am also covering 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, Alibaba.
Tracing and profiling through the CUDA Profiling Tools Interface (CUPTI)
Compatibility with the guest VM drivers from the previous long-term support branch (11)
Single-slice GPU instances with decoder support
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 13.0
Support for the following GPUs:
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB
NVIDIA A30
NVIDIA A16
Support for Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V role
Support for Windows Server 2022 as a guest OS
Support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version 7 2106
Support for VMware Horizon 2106 (8.3)
Feature Support Withdrawn in Release 13.0
The following GPUs are no longer supported on VMware vSphere:
NVIDIA A100 HGX 80GB
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 40GB
NVIDIA A100 HGX 40GB
Instead, these GPUs are supported on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (vCS) is no longer supported on VMware vSphere and C-series vGPU types are no longer available. Instead, vCS is supported on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
The base VMware vSphere 7.0 release and VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 are no longer supported.
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 8 (2106), and this release is general available from August 2021. 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. HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU driver 13 supports VMware Horizon 8 2106. I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for 2106 IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure. Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 8 (2106)
VMware Horizon 8 2106 provides the following new features and enhancements
VMware Horizon Connection Server
VMware Horizon Agent for Linux
VMware Horizon Agent for Windows
VMware Horizon GPO Bundle
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2106
VMware Unified Access Gateway 2106
VMware Horizon Clients 2106 for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, HTML Access
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 8 (2103), and this release is for now general available from March 2021. 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.
HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU (on-prem) there is currently no driver support for Horizon 8 2103.
I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for 2103 IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure.
Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 8 (2103)
VMware Horizon 8 2103 provides the following new features and enhancements
VMware Horizon Connection Server
VMware Horizon Agent for Linux
VMware Horizon Agent for Windows
VMware Horizon GPO Bundle
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2103
VMware Unified Access Gateway 2103
VMware Horizon Clients 2103 for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, HTML Access
