Overview
NICE DCV is a high performance remote streaming protocol that enables user to securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.
NICE DCV offers end users a wide range of client devices, including native clients for Windows, Linux, and MacOS operating systems. Native clients support up to 4 monitors at 4K resolution each and the Windows client also supports USB redirection for 3D mice and USB storage devices. In addition, NICE DCV helps customers with remote Linux desktops to reduce session costs by supporting multiple simultaneous full-performant 3D Linux sessions from one high performance GPU server.
NICE DCV CENTOS 8 Desktop supports fluid remote desktop access with MESA 3D support. Includes support for remote USB devices and file transfer.
On AWS, NICE DCV provides the streaming protocol e.g. used by Amazon Appstream 2.0 and AWS RoboMaker.
Highlights
- Remote Performance: Responsive and secure streaming experience allowing customers to run graphics intensive applications remotely removing the need for expensive dedicated workstations or transferring large amounts of data. Based on NICE DCV from AWS.
- Secure TLS encrypted high-end remote desktop streaming in web browser and DCV native client. Includes remote USB support and file transfer.
- Centos 8 desktop with full superuser access to add and manage own applications. Allows multiple simultaneous full-performant Linux Desktops.
Details
Typical total price
$0.041/hour
Pricing
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.02 | $0.006 | $0.026 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.02 | $0.012 | $0.032 |
t2.small | $0.02 | $0.023 | $0.043 |
t2.medium | $0.02 | $0.046 | $0.066 |
t2.large | $0.02 | $0.093 | $0.113 |
t2.xlarge | $0.02 | $0.186 | $0.206 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.02 | $0.371 | $0.391 |
t3.nano | $0.02 | $0.005 | $0.025 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.02 | $0.01 | $0.03 |
t3.small Recommended | $0.02 | $0.021 | $0.041 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Includes NICE DCV 2022.2-14126 with support for full-screen on selected monitors for NICE DCV client on Windows and other new features and patches. More information can be found here: https://www.ni-sp.com/11-11-2022-nice-releases-dcv-2022-2-including-new-features/
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Make sure the instance security groups allow inbound traffic to TCP port 8443 and 22.
- Configure the instance to have the role to access the license file as per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/setting-up-license.html
- Connect to your remote machine with ssh -i
centos@ - Set the password for the user "centos" with 'sudo passwd centos'. This is the password you will use to log in to DCV.
- Create a DCV virtual session using the command 'dcv create-session --storage-root %home% session1' including file transfer support, 'session1' is the session name (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/managing-sessions.html )
- Connect to your remote machine with the NICE DCV native client or web client using https://<public_dns>:8443
Please note: you can start different concurrent remote desktop sessions for different users which makes DCV a very efficient remote desktop technology. With DCV 2022 QUIC/UDP will be used automatically together with the new DCV client. In the DCV client connection settings you can select TCP as well.
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Vendor support
Free support is available through forums (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=366 ), technical documentation (https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/dcv/ ) and NI SP Tips and Tricks (https://www.ni-sp.com/nice-dcv-tips-and-tricks/ ). AWS Support customers can open a support case with AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ ).
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Works great!
The DCV remote desktop is fast and works very smoothly also in difficult network conditions! Recommended for all users of CentOS and in case other Linux remote desktops!
Not working out-of-the-box, crashing session
Deployed on recommended infrastructure and followed the instructions, yet the session seems to be crashing constantly, complaiing about libcuda.so.1...
How could it be that the product that is marked in its name as "no GPU" actually requires NVIDIA infrastructure...