Oxygen Cloud Platform has shared details of a compressed one-month project that delivered a fully domestic VDI environment capable of running heavy 3D CAD applications for design engineers.
The unnamed customer, a Russian company that designs and manufactures complex equipment, required remote access to resource-intensive applications including Siemens NX, SolidWorks, and Kompas-3D on import-substituted hardware and software over a dedicated channel. Data had to remain inside a protected data center while remaining accessible to remote facilities located 1,500 km away.
From six-month R&D to one-month production rollout
After an earlier large-scale Astra Linux VDI deployment completed in ten days, the team allocated six months for thorough testing. When the new request arrived with an “as soon as possible” deadline, the accumulated knowledge had to be applied under tight time constraints.
Key technical challenges and resolutions included:
- High rendering latency with NVIDIA T4 cards — resolved by switching to NVIDIA A40 GPUs.
- Variable resource demands across user profiles — addressed by tuning vCPU, RAM, and vGPU allocations for NX and Kompas-3D workloads.
- Failure to detect a second monitor — fixed by updating thin-client firmware.
- Network-induced performance issues — mitigated through optimization of the Loudplay protocol and deployment of newer releases of Astra Linux, Termidesk, and Loudplay Client.
- Manual desktop assignment — automated via Termidesk broker with separate resource pools in Active Directory.
Virtual GPU functionality is provided by the Russian Forsite vGate solution running on domestic hypervisors, combined with NVIDIA GRID vGPU profiles. The resulting infrastructure supports both office users and engineers working with large assemblies while satisfying regulatory requirements for Russian software and hardware.
