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How has your organization managed the 4.0 GHz processor requirement vs Zooms 2 GHz requirement?
Mike_Pudans you can see the history of the edits to that page, if was created in March 2019 and said 2 vCPU at the time.
marthaowen what 4Ghz CPU requirement? I don't see anything mentioned other than 2 vCPU cores in the documentation at
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-for-vdi
The important factor for Teams performance is to have the right versions of Citrix, VMWare etc. configured to allow the client to offload the audio/video to the VDI client. The server is taken out of the processing for the latency sensitive media workload, and you'll get basically the browser experience for a meeting superimposed on the virtual desktop, as described in the diagram in the above document.
This was not about a GHz requirement but a number of cores recommendation. The https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-for-vdi document or others that I had previously found USED to says the recommended number of cores for Teams was 4. It's been awhile since I looked at it so I assumed it's changed but I'm positive that it used to say 4 was the recommended number in a virtual environment.
Mike_Pudans you can see the history of the edits to that page, if was created in March 2019 and said 2 vCPU at the time.
StevenC365I have found where the 4 core recommendation was coming from that I had seen and it was not in this document, it was in a VMware document for running Teams on a Horizon desktop. My apologizes for confusing the two.
In this document https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-7/7.12/horizon-remote-desktop-features/GUID-E64B3E85-BA1E-4FB7-9DB4-FF9B7B7A892C.html it says:
"Microsoft Teams with Real-Time Audio-Video requires a minimum 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM configuration, with a maximum video resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. Additional vCPUs and memory configurations deliver a superior experience."
That is what I remember seeing when I made that comment about 3 cores vs 4 cores.
Mike_Pudans That article is where VMWare are talking about using Teams using what they call 'Real-Time Audio/Video' which is basically just connecting your webcam to the virtual desktop, all the work is happening on the server.
They also have a page that describes "Media Optimisation" on Horizon with Teams. This is where your the audio/video is offloaded from the virtual desktop to your client, resulting in far more reliable call quality, and less server load. There they recommend 2vCpu ...