GRID: GRID 2.0 Vmware installation and testing

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GRID 2.0 Requirements for dedicated VDI setup - Matt Hole

Infrastructure required

  • System with M60 card installed. Example 1028GR-TR, 2x 2670v3, 8x 16GB DDR4, 1x Nvidia GRID M60 and 1x OS SSD and 1x VDI stor SSD
  • Vmware 6.2 (required to support Linux GRID enabled workstations)

Software required

  • ESXI Hypervisor. Up to date and with SSH enabled.
  • Vcenter appliance or server installation.
  • VDI seat OS: Example: Windows 7 X64 Professional SP1 with Vmware tools installed, View agent, direct connection Agent and fully up to date. Linux is now also do avalible, tested with Centos 7.
  • Nvidia Licensing Server. Note at date of this write up i found windows 2012 server to be un usable the licensing server software would crash consistently. Tested with windows 7 x64 pro.
  • Vmware Horizon View Connection Server. Vmware software package on top windows OS. Tested: Up to date windows server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Active directory: Domain controller required. Either create my own or use bostonlabs.co.uk depending on requirement.
  • Gotchas: Make sure that all IP`s are static, unique and that your Hostnames/DNS are reachable (this will most likely require logining on to the labs DNS and adding the required records)

Installation guides

  • Large number of steps required for installation of this platform. So here are the offical guides i used:
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