Wall's View

I thought I would put together some notes from my experiences tuning PCoIP, but specifically to the features in View 5.0.

The best recommendation is to run it out of the box and see what kind of numbers you are getting when it is actually being used and tweak from there.  We should see a significant drop in bandwidth utilization out of the box – DEPENDING on the use case!  Video will still be a tough use case.

First we have to add the ADM templates to AD:

Open up the MMC and add the “Group Policy Object Editor” for the “Local Computer Policy” when on the domain controller.  In the console tree, under either Computer Configuration or User Configuration, right-click Administrative Templates.  Click Add/Remove Templates.  Click Add, browse to the location that stores the ADM files (they are on the Connection Server “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\extras\GroupPolicyFiles” by default).

As you can see I added all of the ADM files, inside of each template are overridable and not overridable values.  I tend to use the overridable ones.  As we drill into each one, turning off Build-to-Lossless, adjusting Audio, and adjusting Frame Rate probably give the biggest bang for the buck!

BTL:

Audio:

Frame Rate:

As you can see there is a very good description when editing the setting.  When working within the frame rate setting, you can also adjust the minimum image quality and maximum initial image quality down.  Read the description and see if setting the maximum initial to a value of “70” helps.