Hi,
Apologies in advance is this topic has already been discussed. I was just after some pointers/suggestions about troubleshooting general poor performance of Windows 8.1 Enterprise VDIs, by general I mean the display is quite grainy and YouTube playback is terrible.
I have just started work as a Network Tech, and my start coincides with a large VDI project being implemented over the next couple of years and it's crunch time on picking the Hypervisor, ESXi or Hyper-V, I'm all in favour of Hyper-V, from the white papers I've read and videos I've watched I think it will support everything we want to do.
They'd already trialled ESXi and we're now trialling Hyper-V, Monday we have to advise those that sign the cheques whether we spend a lot of money on ESXi, or do we go with Hyper-V.
Thursday/Friday we tested Hyper-V VDIs in a small lab, the server is a Dell R720, no native GPU, 60GB RAM, we're using Server 2012 R2 with GUI, we created 4 Windows 8.1 Enterprise VDIs to test, initially login times we're ridiculously slow (over 6 minutes) but we got that down to an average of 26 seconds, but the desktop is really grainy and YouTube playback is terrible.
Can someone give me some ideas of where to start looking at what could be the problem?, most of my experience lies with Cisco hardware, I checked DirectX Diagnostic tool while using a VDI, DirectDraw Acceleration and AGP Texture Acceleration are disabled and Direct3D Acceleration is enabled.
I know that the server has no GPU but I thought that the server only requires a GPU if the VDIs are going to be using graphics intense programs such as CAD, which they may eventually, but at the moment I just want to get a VDI performing close to how its physical counterpart does.
I know it's a tall order offering advice on something you can't look at yourselves but if you could just give me a few pointers on where to start looking it would be great.
Thanks in advance
Jon