Comparing RemoteFX to RDP, ICA/HDX, EOP and PCoIP

One of my coworkers pointed me to a video from this years Tech-Ed Europe about VDI protocols. Bernhard Tritsch did an interesting comparison between the different remote protocols used in today’s VDI solutions. In a 60 minute session Bernhard explains the differences between location (host vs client), type (hardware vs software) rendering and compression types (lossless vs lossy).

Although the results aren’t that good for PCoIP (software version) it still is a very interesting video.

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About Anne Jan Elsinga

Anne Jan Elsinga is a Consultant for Imtech ICT in the Netherlands. He spends his working hours with a lot of virtualization stuff, from feasibility to implementation for server virtualization/consolidation and desktop virtualization. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 he was awarded with the VMware vExpert status. In the night time he dances latin, ballroom and salsa and he also discovered the pleasure of diving.

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Very useful video from MS – nice to see a simulation of real world conditions and side by side videos of the actual user experience.

Also note that the Remotefx demo is running in software as well, no ASIC’s in use – I expect that hardware acceleration at the host and client ends will have a similiar benefit as witnessed when using teradici encoders/decoders for PCOIP streaming.

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Perhaps Mr. Trisch was not very motivated to have a functioning PCoIP platform – this posting on TeradiciLabs shows software PCoIP under same 200mS latency conditions performing without any of those problems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0aOawt4u0
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Binaryspiral

Running PCoIP (VMware View) through security gateway servers with Intel AES-IN enabled processors will help considerably by offloading the AES encryption to the hardware. You are still limited to the local processing of the PCoIP server, but getting PCoIP traffic out of your VPN connection will help remote users a lot.