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
Its time to plan updating your NVIDIA TESLA M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100, V100, T4, RTX6000, RTX8000 with NVIDIA vGPU software 10.0. NVIDIA have released new drivers for vGPU 10.0.
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.
NVIDIA vGPU 10.0 is only supported with Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops 7.15, 7 1808, 7 1903, 7 1906, 7 1909, 7 1912 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 10.0 and should plan upgrading to Citrix Hypervisor 8.1
This release includes the following software:
NVIDIA vGPU Manager version 440.43 for the Citrix Hypervisor, VMware vSphere, RHEL KVM, Nutanix AHV
NVIDIA Windows driver version 441.66
NVIDIA Linux driver version 440.43
New Features in Release 10.0
Support for NVIDIA® GRID™ Virtual PC and GRID Virtual Applications on Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 8000 GPUs
Increase in the maximum number of virtual display heads supported by -1Q, -2B, and -1B4 vGPUs:
All -1Q vGPUs now support 4 heads instead of 2 heads.
All -2B vGPUs now support 4 heads instead of 2 heads.
All -1B4 vGPUs now support 4 heads instead of 1 head.
Flexible virtual display resolutions
Instead of a fixed maximum resolution per head, vGPUs now support a maximum combined resolution based on their frame buffer size. This behavior allows the same number of lower resolution displays to be used as before, but alternatively allows a smaller number of higher resolution displays to be used.
Virtual display resolutions greater than 4096×2160
10-bit color
Changes to allow cross-branch driver support in future main release branches
Note: This feature cannot be used until the next NVIDIA vGPU software main release branch is available.
The purpose of this change is to allow a release of the Virtual GPU Manager from a later main release branch to be used with the NVIDIA vGPU software graphics drivers for the guest VMs from the previous branch.
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 10.0
Support for passively cooled Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 8000 GPUs
Support for Tesla V100S PCIe 32GB GPUs
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 as a guest OS
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 and CentOS 8.0 as a guest OS
Support for Windows 10 November 2019 Update (1909) as a guest OS
Support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version 7 1912
Support for Citrix Hypervisor 8.1
Support for VMware Horizon 7.11
Features Deprecated in Release 10.0
The following table lists features that are deprecated in this release of NVIDIA vGPU software. Although the features remain available in this release, they might be withdrawn in a future release. In preparation for the possible removal of these features, use the preferred alternative listed in the table.
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 7.11, and this release is for now general available from 13th December 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.
HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU (on-prem) I highly recommend you upgrade to NVIDIA vGPU 10, when this is released it will be supporting VMware Horizon 7.11. I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure.
One of the great things I saw in this release is that VMware Horizon the new HW encoder supports five or more monitors. Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 7.11
VMware Horizon 7.11 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.
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:
