Why does my screen jitter or stutter, and scroll bars appear on the PCoIP Software client window after connecting to a PCoIP Remote Workstation Card?
Answer: This occurs when a software client is being used on a laptop with the display configured to operate in non-native mode. The EDID information found in some laptops only include timing information for the native display resolution. If a non-native …
What PCoIP GPO settings in VMware Horizon View take effect immediately after the change is made?
Answer: There are currently 4 GPO settings which changes take effect immediately. These are available in Horizon View 5.2 and are listed below along with links to the individual GPO descriptions. In Horizon View 5.3 an additional GPO was added to this …
What is the DHCP request timeout on a PCoIP Zero Client or PCoIP Remote Workstation Card?
The PCoIP Zero Client and PCoIP Remote Workstation Card will attempt to get a DHCP lease 4 times after power on or after the network link comes up. When a PCoIP device is connected to a network with no DHCP server and the DHCP request time-out period …
What network switch or router queue size should be used?
Network device queues, also known as network buffer's, should be configured to accommodate 50ms to 100ms of PCoIP protocol traffic in total. This assumes that one network device (e.g. switch or router) is congested for a given network path. If the network …
What are my options for using PCoIP between trusted and untrusted networks?
PCoIP is encrypted by default and it cannot be disabled. This makes PCoIP itself secure on untrusted networks. To get PCoIP traffic from untrusted networks to PCoIP Hosts the following options can be used: Over a VPN that is UDP compatible. An SSL VPN …
What are the possible reasons for jitter on a 30 inch monitor when compared to a 24 inch monitor connected to the same Tera2 Remote Workstation Card?
Problem In a single workstation environment when comparing a 30 inch monitor at 2560x1600 to a 24 inch monitor at 1920x1600, moving a window containing a running video in the 30 inch screen shows latency and window drag when compared to the 24 inch …
How does competing traffic on the network affect PCoIP performance?
This article outlines how other types of network traffic may negatively impact PCoIP performance. Please refer to  Network session checklist for PCoIP protocol LAN and WAN deployments  for more details on network configuration. On most modern LAN's, …
How do I improve performance when dragging a window on the screen using firmware pre-4.1.0 and without a PCoIP Hardware Accelerator installed?
Problem While there are many factors that determine desktop performance - see  PCoIP TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS: VMware View Virtual desktop performance  - lower performance of window dragging may be observed in the following environment: VMware Horizon View …
ICMP packets are being send from the machine at the start of the PCoIP session
Problem At the start of a PCoIP session a network trace or firewall logs are recording ICMP packet being sent from the machine. Further investigation shows they are from the PCoIP Server process. PCoIP server logs show a trace route log of up to 30 hops. …
Encryption and bandwidth metrics used for various setups PCoIP Devices and VMware Horizon View
Answer:   Encryption and Bandwidth Metrics   Tera1 Zero Client Tera2 Zero Client Windows View Client Host Card No View Security Server Up to 220 Mbps AES-128 (not encapsulated) Up to 500 Mbps AES-128/AES-256| (not encapsulated/encapsulated) FW 4.1.0 and …