Teradici APEX 2800 server offload card is an easy to implement, cost-effective ‘insurance’ for consistent user experience.

The Teradici APEX 2800 Server Offload Card insures the success of VMware View™ deployments by offloading PCoIP image encoding tasks and reducing server CPU utilization. This empowers IT managers to protect and ensure a consistent user experience, while enabling increased VDI consolidation ratios. The APEX 2800 is a performance enhancement to VMware View deployments that’s simple to install and setup. 

The many tasks a CPU performs combined with image encoding of pixel-intensive applications, limits the number of virtual machines that can run on any one server. By offloading image encoding to a separate hardware encoding card CPU capacity can be recovered, resulting in multiple benefits.

Protect and ensure a consistent user experience

APEX 2800 creates virtual CPU headroom to ensure consistent application performance, enabling intensive applications to run more smoothly. Reducing peaks in CPU utilization by up to 50% and smoothing overall CPU demand provides a reliable and consistent level of experience regardless of the overall demand on server CPUs. The card constantly monitors the graphic encoding demands of each display and dynamically offloads the 64 most active displays as needed.

Enable VDI consolidation ratio improvements

As the APEX 2800 reduces server CPU utilization, the extra headroom can also be used to enable consolidation ratio improvements. IT managers could achieve consolidation ratio improvements of up to 1.2X in typical office workloads (5% video, 95% office). In use cases with high levels of pixel changes, such as many users watching video at the same time, consolidation ratio improvements can be up to 2X.

Simple to install and setup

No complex configuration or management tools are required. The PCIe full-height, half-length card simply plugs into industry standard servers, and is managed through VMware View Administrator. The server offload card is compatible with all existing PCoIP zero clients and VMware View software clients.

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System Requirements:

• PCIe x8 or x16 slot (x8 electrical)
• Full height, half length (FHHL) card
• ESXi 4.1 U1/U2 or ESXi 5.0 U1 
• View 4.6.x or 5.0.x