Flash Acceleration in Quest vWorkspace 7.0 is actually a double-edged sword: it provides a magnificent user experience whilst improving on scalability of virtual desktop and Terminal Server / RD Session Host environments!

Flash is a extremely popular way to provide web pages with multimedia content and its present on almost webpage these days. YouTube (flash video) is a perfect example of this. Take a look at this demonstration to see just how rich the user experience is with the Flash Acceleration feature of EOP:

Like I mentioned earlier, it’s not just the end user that benefits from Flash Acceleration. The Flash Acceleration feature in EOP works by leveraging the CPU of the client device to perform the relatively CPU intensive task of Flash rendering. This significantly reduces the CPU load on virtual desktop hosts (hypervisors) and Terminal Servers. For example: this is the CPU load on a Terminal Server when playing a YouTube movie with the Flash Acceleration feature of Quest vWorkspace 7.0 :

Now have a look at the CPU load for that same YouTube movie without Flash Acceleration.

As you can see, playing a flash content is a very CPU intensive operation.  The difference is dramatic. Multiply this by the number of users on your Terminal Server / RD Session Host or by the number of your virtual desktops and you will know why Flash Acceleration significantly improves the scalability of your deployment!

So there you have it: improving the scalability of your virtual desktop and Terminal Server / RD Session Host environments just improved the user experience dramatically. I am pretty sure that most end users say that this pretty rare ;-).

Want to see it for yourself? Don’t hesitate to try, you can download a fully functional evaluation version of vWorkspace 7.0 here yourself.

Source: http://blogs.inside.quest.com/provision/2010/01/13/quest-vworkspace-70-feature-spotlight-flash-acceleration/#more-588