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HP training white paper

Remote Graphics Software

(RGS) versions 6.0.1 and 6.0.2

New features

Table of contents

Audience ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2

Objectives ............................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Additional RGS training ......................................................................................................................................................... 2

New OS support ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3

HP Velocity System Tray app for Windows ........................................................................................................................ 5

Advanced Video Compression in Directory Mode .............................................................................................................. 8

Advanced Video Compression ......................................................................................................................................... 8

Directory Mode ............................................................................................................................................................... 10

Summary of content (12 pages)

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Training white paper HP training white paper Remote Graphics Software (RGS) versions 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 New features Table of contents Audience .................................................................................................................................................................................2 Objectives ...............................................................................................................................................................................
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features Introduction This whitepaper introduces and explains the changes in Remote Graphics Software (RGS) versions 6.0.1 and 6.02. Before reading this whitepaper, you should have a basic understanding of existing HP RGS functionality and features. This document covers only the changes added with versions 6.0.1 and 6.0.2.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features Overview With version 6.0.2, HP adds Operating System (OS) support for the Sender and Receiver as well as new functionality, as requested by our customers. The additional OS support includes:  Sender o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (Sender) o Citrix XenServer v6 (restricted conditions) o VMWare vSphere ESX v 5.0 (restricted conditions)  Receiver  ThinPro 3.3 (Receiver)  ThinPro 4.1 thru 4.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features The RGS 6.0.2 Sender is also supported on VMWare vSphere ESX v 5 under the following conditions:   On WS460c Gen8 Workstation Blades with one of the following: o Microsoft Win7 64-bit SP1 o Microsoft WinXP 32 and 64-bit SP2 o SLES v11 o HP version of RHEL v5 & v6 (Workstation and Server).
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features HP Velocity System Tray app for Windows Beginning with version 6.0.2, RGS now ships with a convenient system tray applet for Windows that provides network:  Statistics  Monitoring This applet also provides local and remote:  System information  CPU and memory usage information The software to run this applet installs automatically when you install either the RGS Sender or the RGS Receiver.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features The Management menu provides three tabs (see figure 3).  Network Statistics – provides packet information; provides an Advanced Statistics option (see figure 3)  Network Monitor – provides network throughput information in graphical format (see figure 4)  Flow Information provides local and remote system information and usage information (see figure 5) Figure 3.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features Figure 4. HP Velocity Management menu showing Network Monitor tab with throughput data. Figure 5. HP Velocity Management menu Flow Information tab with Local and Remote buttons for System Information highlighted.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features Advanced Video Compression in Directory Mode Beginning with RGS 6.0.2, Advanced Video Compression is supported when connection using Directory Mode. Note CPU consumption will be much higher on both the Sender and Receiver systems when using Advanced Video Compression. This feature is not recommended for customers who do not require reduced network bandwidth consumption. Advanced Video Compression is not supported on multi-monitor configurations.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features Advanced Video Compression configuration Configure RGS to use Advanced Video Compression from:   The RGS Receiver control panel, Performance tab (Figure 6) o Select Use Graphics Card for GPU encoding (default) o Select Use CPU for CPU encoding The Rgreceiverconfig file (Rgreceiver.ImageCodec.IsH264Enable=1) (Figure 7) Figure 6. RGS Receiver control panel with the Performance tab highlighted. Figure 7.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features Directory Mode Directory Mode enables the local user to automatically open connections to multiple remote computers based on the computers assigned to each user. When the user starts the Receiver in Directory Mode, the Receiver looks for a directory file containing user names and their assigned remote computers.
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Training white paper | RGS v 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 new features Figure 8. HP RGS Directory Mode option from the HP Remote Graphics Software menu The Receiver can also be started in Directory Mode from a command line, using either of the following commands: C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Remote Graphics Receiver\rgreceiver.exe - directory “file” C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Remote Graphics Receiver\rgreceiver.
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