[c-nsp] Video in VDI environment best practices?

[Wes Smith]

Unfortunately, we have never seen video over vdi work well. 
Typical BW savers such as Wan opt stream splitting and multicast do not apply to the vdi streams.   
Our tests using Thin clients showed the video bw needed per steam was much higher when viewed via vdi.
End user experience was spotty.  

Our platform was wyse thin clients using either tcp based rdp or their proprietary udp protocol. 

Pcoip may have some VMware features for video.  I'm told Citrix had some way to support it as well.  

Pls keep us posted with any success or other stories. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Alex K. <nsp.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> One of our customers decided to stream video in their network. Obviously
> they ran into problems :)
> 
> They are using one of those modern protocols. One of it key features is
> adaptive bit rate - i.e. it senses the available bandwidth between the
> source and the end PC and adjusts quite well to different network
> circumstances.
> 
> We've done some testing today. With regular PC at the end, the whole thing
> performs quite well. Now, they are mainly VDI environment. I guess you can
> easily see the problem. The VM environment, as with most enterprises,
> located at the DC. Bandwidth, obviously, is not an issue. But when it comes
> to the thin client, it is a whole different story. PCoIP struggles to keep
> up with the video, but it's no match for the bandwidth mismatch. While DCs
> links are at least 10G (for most part), the branch sites bandwidth ranges
> from tens of Mbps to tens of Mbps. While at those sites the streaming
> protocol was able to perform quite nicely, the b/w difference leads to poor
> PCoIP performance. Mainly due to the highest rate, the streaming protocol
> thinks, he's able to achieve at that station.
> 
> Which brings me to the question. Are they any best practices at the
> industry for such a scenario?
> 
> AFIK, one can rate limit the "real" VM station with GPO. Has anyone tried
> that? Any thoughts, experience and recommendations shared, will be gladly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
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