Quantifying performance of remote desktop options
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Management wants people to use remote desktop applications to access testers (multi-million dollar units located in various factories throughout the world) for debug, people in the US can use the ones in Asia during not production hours, etc. to save costs (maximize tester use and minimize travel). Management reports that people have complained they do not want to because the remote desktop connection is slow. I have asked many many people who do this if there is an issue and they generally do not report any issues, but management insists there is. Management has therefore asked me to review the remote application software used (currently VNC and Microsoft Remote desktop) and quantify, with data, the performance of these or other options. My initial thought was to capture screen frame rates using something like Fraps, but Fraps does not seen to catch many non game applications, and installing games on the testers is probably not going to fly. so given the background, anyone have any thoughts as to how I might measure this in some way? Thanks no-e
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Management wants people to use remote desktop applications to access testers (multi-million dollar units located in various factories throughout the world) for debug, people in the US can use the ones in Asia during not production hours, etc. to save costs (maximize tester use and minimize travel). Management reports that people have complained they do not want to because the remote desktop connection is slow. I have asked many many people who do this if there is an issue and they generally do not report any issues, but management insists there is. Management has therefore asked me to review the remote application software used (currently VNC and Microsoft Remote desktop) and quantify, with data, the performance of these or other options. My initial thought was to capture screen frame rates using something like Fraps, but Fraps does not seen to catch many non game applications, and installing games on the testers is probably not going to fly. so given the background, anyone have any thoughts as to how I might measure this in some way? Thanks no-e
We have remote desktop servers installed at the office for remote programers to use. I did a lot of research on this, and they have special hardware that optimizes the remote workstation experience. Plus you can setup a hyper visor, and run several virtual machines that serve as remote workstations, so you can load up 2 or 3 or them in the same box. With graphics, you need one hell of a GPU like the NVidia Quatro Card for fast processing. Most slow remote sessions are from the host not being able to run fast enough, to send the remote screen data across the wire and back. I know of a lot of companies in the middle east, in which the employees remote in from the UAE into Saudi Arabia, so they don't have to live there and work. I just bought a Dell Solution and let my friend set it up for me, and it works fine. No complaints so far from my remote contractors. As far as speed testing goes, I did planning first, so it wasn't really an issue. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-r7910-workstation/pd[^]