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Copper Contributor

Jun 28, 2021

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CAD on Windows Virtual Desktop

Hello everybody, is there anybody that has a WVD pool for Autodesk CAD users (with GPU enabled VM's of course) ? What is your experience, suggestions, optimizations? Thanks to for your kind ...

semkaz
Jun 29, 2021
Its a bit of a balancing act I'd use this guide when sizing up your user/VM ratio:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/virtual-machine-recs

We've set the limit to 20 users on a single VM but with autoscaling we've set autoscaler to power up additional VMs once 15 users are on a VM.

CherryReply

Copper Contributor

Jun 29, 2021

Hi semkaz thanks for your reply. Are those hosts pooled? Do you think remoteapp performs better?

thanks

semkaz

Copper Contributor

Jun 29, 2021

All of the session hosts are configured with Windows 10 multi-session with a limit set on number of users on each session host. We've never really had a chance to compare the desktop and RemoteApp as we've only ever used RemoteApp but after 12 months in operation we've only had positive feedback.

CherryReply
Copper Contributor
Jun 29, 2021
Very interesting, one last question: how many session work on a single host?

thanks
- semkaz
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 29, 2021
  Its a bit of a balancing act I'd use this guide when sizing up your user/VM ratio:
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/virtual-machine-recs
  
  We've set the limit to 20 users on a single VM but with autoscaling we've set autoscaler to power up additional VMs once 15 users are on a VM.