Horizon and vSphere support vGPU, and vGPU brings the benefit of broad API support and native NVIDIA drivers with maximum scalability. NVIDIA GRID GPUs are based on the NVIDIA Kepler GPU architecture. NVIDIA GRID GPUs support vGPU capability for multiple users to share a single physical GPU in a virtualized environment. Horizon will automatically load-balance vGPU-enabled virtual desktops across compute and storage resource pools with the required GPUs, even with different pools using various user profiles. If we create two linked-clone pools, one with a K120Q profile and another with K220Q, Horizon will put the first profile on hosts with K1 cards and the latter on K2 without any effort. vGPU profiles entitle dedicated graphics memory. The GPU manager allocates memory size to meet the specific asks of each user.

The ESXi host can go up to a maximum 16 physical GPU-based graphics to be shared among different virtual machines/users.

Horizon have three kinds of graphics acceleration:

• Virtual shared graphics
• Virtual shared passthrough graphics
• Virtual dedicated graphics
• Total memory (including volatile and non-volatile memory) can't exceed the maximum memory limit (6,128 GB) per virtual machine