Citrix* XenDesktop, User Experience Across Client Architectures
Our Findings: Organizations deploying virtual desktops must weigh the benefits of different classes of clients. As computing needs grow over time, an investment in PC clients can meet the needs of increasing categories of workers. In Principled Technologies’ tests in our labs, an Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor-based PC delivered an excellent user experience while playing advanced multimedia workloads within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) session. Such clients would serve a company well today and for years to come.
Our Process: To evaluate the user experience when running VDI sessions from four different clients, we rated the video and audio quality of various workloads, including multimedia and printing, in the VDI virtual machines. For testing, we played a video inside the virtual desktop and monitored the video and audio quality. In addition, we recorded the frames per second while the video played.
Project Overview: The goal of this report is to communicate the multimedia performance benefits of using PCs to run virtual desktops from Citrix* XenDesktop 4 with HDX* MediaStream. PCs can utilize their own processors and graphics processing units to offload multimedia workloads in a virtual desktop environment when multimedia redirection (MMR) is enabled. HDX MediaStream is MMR technology from Citrix that lets physical clients use their local hardware to format and play media content. This greatly reduces server CPU usage and demonstrates one of the benefits of intelligent PC clients as VDI end-points.
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Citrix* XenDesktop, User Experience Across Client Architectures
Our Findings: Organizations deploying virtual desktops must weigh the benefits of different classes of clients. As computing needs grow over time, an investment in PC clients can meet the needs of increasing categories of workers. In Principled Technologies’ tests in our labs, an Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor-based PC delivered an excellent user experience while playing advanced multimedia workloads within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) session. Such clients would serve a company well today and for years to come.
Our Process: To evaluate the user experience when running VDI sessions from four different clients, we rated the video and audio quality of various workloads, including multimedia and printing, in the VDI virtual machines. For testing, we played a video inside the virtual desktop and monitored the video and audio quality. In addition, we recorded the frames per second while the video played.
Project Overview: The goal of this report is to communicate the multimedia performance benefits of using PCs to run virtual desktops from Citrix* XenDesktop 4 with HDX* MediaStream. PCs can utilize their own processors and graphics processing units to offload multimedia workloads in a virtual desktop environment when multimedia redirection (MMR) is enabled. HDX MediaStream is MMR technology from Citrix that lets physical clients use their local hardware to format and play media content. This greatly reduces server CPU usage and demonstrates one of the benefits of intelligent PC clients as VDI end-points.
Read the full Citrix* XenDesktop User Experience Across Client Architectures Paper.
