Standard Agent for Windows Administrators' Guide

System Requirements

The Standard Agent for Windows depends on the following system capacities and capabilities:

Supported Instance Types

VMware ESXi (6.0+) KVM AWS EC2 Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform
VMware Hardware Version 11 QEMU/KVM Any instance type Any instance type Any instance type with virtual displays

Host Instance Requirements

Global instance requirements
Operating Systems
  • Windows 10 21H2, 22H2 (64-bit Professional and Enterprise)
  • Windows 11 22H2, 23H2
  • Windows Server 2019, 2022 (single-user only)
Remote Host Memory At least 2GB of RAM is required on the host desktop.
The agent should have at least 512MB of available memory.
Remote Host CPUs At least 2 CPUs are required on the host desktop.
Processors must support Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) 4.2.
To use PCoIP Ultra, processors must support the AVX2 instruction set.
Network Ports The following ports must be open on the host desktop:
  • TCP 443
  • TCP 4172
  • UDP 4172
  • TCP 60443
Collaboration sessions require an open UDP port (default 64172)
UDP port 4172 does not need to be opened when using Anyware Manager Enterprise.
Storage At least 100MB for installation and 100MB for logging are recommended.

Using a standalone physical PC

You can enable PCoIP connections to a standalone computer, without a discreet GPU, via the Standard Agent for Windows. Standalone physical PCs are currently not tested, but are expected to work. For more information and instructions, see HP Anyware Instructions for Standalone Computers in the HP Knowledge Base.

Note: Elastic GPU and other EC2 instances supported

The Standard Agent for Windows supports a variety of EC2 instances, including elastic GPU types such as eg1.large. Refer to Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs documentation for more information.

Last updated: Thursday, July 18, 2024