

And no, you don’t need a fancy enterprise GPU. One thing that is really cool, is the fact that 3D acceleration is enabled and working if the computer has a GPU installed (along with drivers). Update – March 14th 2020 – I’ve been using this on 3 different systems since I wrote this article and love this feature! 3D Acceleration I’ll update this post later on once I hear back about how some of my customers have deployed it. I’ve had numerous discussions with customers of mine who also say they see tremendous value in this after I brought it to their attention. Not only have I moved my desktop in to my server room and started remoting in using Blast, but I can think of many use cases for this (machines shops, sharing software licenses, remote access, etc.). GPU Hardware h.264/h.265 offload may work in later versions (I still need to test this).GPU Hardware h.264 encoding on consumer GPUs (h.264 encoding is still handled by the CPU).

VMware View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In.Manual Desktop Pool (Manual is required for Physical PCs to be added).VMware Horizon 7.7 or higher (and Horizon 8) Agent on Physical PC/Workstation.VMware Horizon 7.7 or higher (and Horizon 8) Connection Server.Windows 10 Pro or Edu (for Horiand later).Windows 10 Enterprise (for Horizon versions before Horizon 8 2206).

Physical PCs and workstations with WindEnterprise or higher can be brokered through Horizon 7 via Blast Extreme protocol. Some limitations apply.Īdditional information from the “Horizon 7.7 Release Notes” at You can now use the Blast Extreme display protocol to access physical PCs and workstations. From the “What’s new in Horizon 7.7” doc at
