10 RemoteFX Tips
Over the last week tweeted ten times with tips on RemoteFX. In this article we will summarize them.
RemoteFX tip #1: Do not try RemoteFX on anything else than a decent LAN. More than 15-20 ms latency? Use a 3rd party (Quest, Riverbed etc.)
RemoteFX tip #2: Don't try RemoteFX without at least 10Mbps. Personal experience? At least 25 Mbps for best quality. Watch out for wifi.
RemoteFX tip #3: Do you know you can tune RemoteFX from a FPS and display quality perspective? Check the GPOs in here:http://bit.ly/eklBm5
RemoteFX tip #4: RemoteFX has a maximum resolution of 1920x1200 @ 1 or 2 monitors. More monitors = lower resolution.
RemoteFX tip #5: Your VM needs to have a RemoteFX virtual display adapter in the VM before you can use RemoteFX USB redirection.
RemoteFX tip #6: RemoteFX also offers USB device redirection, allowing you to use almost any USB device in VDI session. No RDSH support.
RemoteFX tip #7: Using RemoteFX requires the RDVH role on your Hyper-V box. This in turn means you need a RDCAL, just like RDSH.
RemoteFX tip #8: Did you know what RemoteFX is also available for RDSH (TS)? The great thing about this is that this does not require a GPU.
RemoteFX tip #9: RemoteFX requires the RDP 7.1 client. If there is not 7.1 client for your OS,then no RemoteFX. So no RemoteFX from WinXP...
RemoteFX tip #10: If you don't plan on using RemoteFX in your VM, don't add the RemoteFX display adapter.It uses a couple of 100 MBs of RAM.
This concludes my RemoteFX tip series. Did you find it useful? If you did, let me know and I will (try to) continue. Let me know in the comments.
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April 17th, 2011 - 14:45
Wow, this resource is excellent! A lot of information I couldn’t find elsewhere. I have a question though: what do you think should be the minimum specs in terms of latency and upstream/downstream bandwidth for a 1920×1200 connection at 25 fps?
May 15th, 2011 - 16:50
RemoteFX will certainly deliver a great experience for LAN users accessing multimedia with VDI. But, as mentioned in the article, it works best in a fast LAN environment. For access over WANs though, organizations with remote users should consider complementing it with Ericom Blaze, a software-based RDP acceleration and compression product. It accelerates RDP by up to 25x and is ideal for remote users connecting over slow WANs who need to access graphics-rich content and applications. It works with any standard RDP host, including VDI, Terminal Servers and remote physical machines.
You can use RemoteFX for your LAN users, and at the same time use Ericom Blaze over RDP for your slow WAN users. This combined solution can provide enhanced performance in both types of environments.
For a free eval:
http://www.ericom.com/ericom_blaze.asp?URL_ID=708
To read more about WebConnect and RemoteFX visit:
http://www.ericom.com/RemoteFX.asp?URL_ID=708
Adam
January 2nd, 2012 - 11:45
Thanks, very useful.