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
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.
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:
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
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 7.7
I am very excited about this new release because now VMware is finally supporting physically workstations, so customers example can implement VMware Horizon on HPE Edgeline Engineering workstation I wrote about some weeks ago. I have been testing the new VMware Horizon client with m710x Intel Iris Pro graphics and AMD WX4100 and it is working out of the box, which is great.
There is also made some huge improvements on the VMware Horizon client for Chrome, Linux, Windows, UWP, Mac, HMTL5. 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 7.7
Compatibility Updates and New OS Support
Windows Server 2019 is supported for desktop and RDSH server VMs.
VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 and VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1 are supported.
Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS (SDDC Version 1.5) is supported and includes new features.
Upgrades can now be performed on the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector virtual appliance. This appliance is used for integrating the Horizon Cloud Service with Horizon 7 on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS deployments.
VMware Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business can now be used in an IPv6 environment.
Horizon Clients include support for recent OS releases, including macOS 10.14 (Mojave) and Android 9.1
