{"id":75481,"date":"2017-02-10T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/virtualizing-arcgis-pro-leveraging-vmware-app-volumes\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:11:11","slug":"virtualizing-arcgis-pro-leveraging-vmware-app-volumes","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/data-management\/data-management\/virtualizing-arcgis-pro-leveraging-vmware-app-volumes","title":{"rendered":"Virtualizing ArcGIS Pro Leveraging VMWare App Volumes"},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[23071,24931],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-75481","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-deployment","tag-virtualization","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"At Esri we are focused on, and work on solutions that matter, as well give benefit our user community's needs and requests. \u00a0The Perform...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>At Esri we are focused on, and work on solutions that matter, as well give benefit our user community&#8217;s needs and requests. \u00a0The Performance Engineering team has fielded several requests to run ArcGIS Pro with VMWare App Volumes. \u00a0App Volumes allows fast delivery of applications, making it possible to deliver applications to a virtual desktop, faster than running an installation. This type of technology along with Esri licensing can deliver ArcGIS Pro to users rapidly and on demand. \u00a0Prior to Delivery the installation is setup and installed on read-only storage, after which delivery is handled with a few clicks of a mouse.<\/p>\n<p>The Performance Engineering team downloaded a trial from VMware that is valid for 10 active instances simultaneously. \u00a0In addition to the vSphere hypervisors, the environment was setup using a VM with Windows Server 2012r2 installed as the main server to administer App Volumes.\u00a0 A series of test VMs were used to test the platform dependent upon the application and physical hardware needs.\u00a0 For Esri testing purposes recent released versions of ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Pro were the focus. \u00a0High availability (SAN) storage was leveraged, and several volumes were created to host applications which would then be assigned to VMs.<\/p>\n<p>During testing, two separate VMWare vSphere servers were leveraged to handle the administration of App Volumes, with the volumes testing both ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro. \u00a0The two vSphere hosts were configured both with, and without an Nvidia graphics card for testing.\u00a0\u00a0 While testing for basic functionality, the application startup time for ArcGIS Desktop\u00a0were for a <em>cold startup at 36 seconds<\/em>, and an average <em>warm startup of 12 seconds<\/em>. \u00a0In addition to other metrics that are captured and quantified, rendering quality and stability are key to looking at an overall performance. \u00a0The overall performance when processing data was comparable to other virtual environments, such as XenDesktop, VMware using Horizon View allowing an overall positive user experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>To address the testing methods and methodology used, a future blog will be published with this information and context.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Testing with ArcGIS Pro utilized the current standard testing to gauge performance.\u00a0 Based on the App 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