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Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration (vDGA)

Tom Walat

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Tom Walat, Site Editor

Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration (vDGA) is a feature that allows a VMware Horizon View virtual desktop provide near-native performance for high-end 3-D graphics.

vDGA allows a virtual desktop to access a high performance graphics card installed on the vSphere host. The vDGA feature, first implemented in Horizon View 5.3, is based on VMware DirectPath I/O and Nvidia GRID technologies.

This was last updated in March 2014

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