Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX 2800) Software 2.3.5 Release Notes

Release Status: General Availability (GA)

Release Overview:

Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX 2800) Drivers Package 2.3.5 is a release that includes the latest drivers for the Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX 2800), formally known as the APEX 2800 Server Offload Card.

Notes:

This update should only be applied if you have experienced issues with the PCoIP Hardware Accelerator being detected ("enumerated") by the server, as seen in some cases for the APEX 2800 Full Height PCIe card and Amulet Hotkey DXM-A card.

Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX 2800) Drivers Packages are specific to the ESXi version being used and includes the VM driver package(apex2800-2.3.4-rel-31865.exe) and the ESXi driver (apex2800-2.3.5-rel-esxi-<esxi version>-033571.zip). 

 

Key Release Details
APEX 2800 driver release 2.3.5 includes support for the latest ESXi 5.5 release and VMware Horizon View 5.3. Additional performance features have been added to improve display frame rates and bandwidth optimization. Please review the release notes within the downloadable zip file.

 

Compatibility Notes

Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX)

  • APEX PCIe Card reference T2800H0100, Rev 02
  • APEX Low Profile PCIe card reference T2800H0101, Rev 01
  • APEX MXM for HP Blade servers, card reference T2800H0200, Rev 01
  • Amulet HotKey DXM-A APEX for Dell Blade servers

Endpoint (client)

  • PCoIP devices should be running firmware release 4.0.3 (Tera2)  or 4.0.2 (Tera1) or higher
  • All VMware View soft and thin clients

ESXi Driver Release 2.3.5 tested with:

  • ESXi 5.5 Build number 1331820
  • ESXi 5.1 Express Patch 3, build number 1117900
  • ESXi 5.1 Update 1, build number 1065491
  • ESXi 5.0 Express Patch 3, build number 1311175
  • ESXi 4.1 Express Patch 12, build number 1050704

VMware View Driver Release 2.3.4 tested with:

 

  • VMware Horizon View 5.3, 5.2
  • VMware View 5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2
  • VMware View 5.0, 5.0.1

 

Key Resolved Issues
Bootloader Bug Fix
ESXi driver release 2.3.5 fixes a problem with APEX cards failing to enumerate with Intel Xeon E5-26xx v2 Ivy Bridge CPU servers, as seen in the field with both the APEX Full Height PCIe card and the Amulet HotKey DXM-A.

 

Key Known Limitations

Reports of ESXi Purple screen (PSOD) in circumstances when operations utilising the VMware fast suspend resume (FSR) functionality are completed on ESXi hosts containing virtual machines with/without APEX drivers. These operations include but are not limited to Storage vMotion, and/or hot adding a CPU to a virtual machine. This is still under investigation.

10664, 10625 - Caching is not supported on multi-display PCoIP sessions. When more than one display is connected to a VM, the caching is not working, meaning bandwidth utilization will stay the same as with APEX 2800 drivers 2.2.

6622  - Lower frame rates when using a VMware View software client. Occasionally, with certain workload types, the software client output frame rate will be slightly lower when a display is being processed by APEX. Teradici PCoIP zero clients are unaffected.
In some occasions, you might experience a reduction of frame per seconds in a GPU Pass through environment (vDGA).

The above known issues are under investigation. Please subscribe to this knowledge base item to receive updates.