In the previous sections, we discussed how to build a standard desktop image for Windows 7 and Windows 8 using standard virtual hardware components.

An advanced feature of Horizon View is the ability to use dedicated hardware installed in the ESX host servers, configured with PCI pass-through so that the virtual desktop machine can see the hardware. In this section, we are going to install an NVIDIA GRID GPU card and create a third virtual desktop machine image that has a dedicated assignment and access to the GPU resource using vDGA.