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 …
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 …
The PCoIP session ended abruptly and the PCoIP Zero Client PCoIP Splash screen appears
Problem Occasionally issues can cause the PCoIP Zero Client to reboot. Issues such as the ones listed below are good signs that the PCoIP Zero Client has rebooted even though at first it may not be certain the PCoIP Zero Client rebooted. Unexpectedly the …
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 …
Should I use an initial image quality of Q100?
An initial image quality of Q100 will deliver the highest quality of image PCoIP can deliver. Q100 is not lossless, for a lossless image, build to lossless must be enabled.  How to configure the Turn off Build-to-Lossless feature session variable in GPO …
What does "IPC: Frame encode took xxx ms so far. Dropping down the quality to index x." in the log files indicate?
Answer: In this case, the imaging encoder has determined that too many bits were being sent in the upper portion of the frame (i.e. flooding) which causes the frame to take longer to encode, and therefore appears unresponsive to the user (> 750 ms to …
Can I use an Ethernet hub or half-duplex network connection with a PCoIP Zero Client or PCoIP Remote Workstation Card?
No. PCoIP technology requires a full-duplex Ethernet connection from end to end. In modern networks, half-duplex links can still exist when using technologies such as Wi-Fi or point to point Wi-Fi or Microwave links. Older communication equipment in wired …
No audio when using Unified Communications with a USB headset
Problem Some users have reported no audio when using Unified Communications solution in firmware 4.7.0, they can only hear the ring of the incoming call and when the call is answered there is no Rx/Tx audio.   Cause This issue has been tracked down to the …
The VMware Horizon View PCoIP server logs show "IPC Can't encode. Waiting. queue" after a random disconnect.
Problem The VMware Horizon View Client or PCoIP Zero Client experience a random disconnect from the VMware Horizon View session. Inspection of the PCoIP server logs show a high slice rate count after a random disconnect. The following example shows 192 …