A school laboratory or large enterprise may use VMware on workstations; students may engage your Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom from VMware-based clients.  Clients will perform as follows based on our testing.

Adobe Connect has settings for quality that affect both the video (webcam) being shared as well as screen sharing. I have indicated the quality in the Settings column in the table below. The VDI client tested was the participant (not the host) in these tests.

We can draw a few conclusions from these tests.

• Firstly, the quality setting for the video had an effect on the CPU utilization.
• Secondly, even though the quality of the screen share was set to high the resolution of the monitor that was shared also had an effect on CPU utilization. In other words the higher the resolution the higher the CPU utilization.
• Thirdly, we can infer that it is prudent to make sure that all students on VMware-based clients shutdown all other client-side applications while engaging with an Adobe Connect Virtual classroom to avoid resource contention.

For more details about the resources allocated to the VMware test client as well as other test variables, see the following tech-note on the Adobe Connect Support Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/connectsupport/adobe-connect-vmware-horizon-vdi-test-results/