Ansys FreeFlow Virtual Desktop

Ansys FreeFlow is supported on Windows virtual desktops.

Follow the instructions in Creating a Virtual Desktop in the Administration Guide.

When creating the virtual desktop, use the following guidelines:

• Operating system: Windows or Linux

  For a Windows installation, select Windows Server 2022.

• Applications: Ansys FreeFlow

  Specify the hostname or IP address of the license server as well as the Flexnet port number and Interconnect port number (if they are different than the default port numbers).

  

  Note: Ansys recommends that you create the virtual desktop without any applications, and then add the application after the virtual desktop has been created. See Adding Applications to a Virtual Machine in the User's Guide. Sometimes, Windows updates are triggered on newly created virtual machines, causing application installation to fail.

• Hardware: A VM size with a GPU is recommended:

  • NCv3 series (based on NVIDIA V100)
  • NCasT4v3 series (based on NVIDIA T4)

  • NVadsA10v5 series (based on NVIDIA A10G)

    (only supported with GRID driver)

  In the GPU driver options, GRID drivers are recommended for accelerated graphics. For GPU compute, both GRID and Tesla drivers are supported.

  For information about GPU driver options, see NVIDIA GPU Driver Support.

  Note: Using a virtual machine with the Tesla M60 driver is not recommended as the solver may fail to start or run properly.

When the resource is in the Running state and the Connect button is displayed, you can connect to the virtual desktop. See Launching a Virtual Desktop Session in the User's Guide.