The Teradici APEX 2800 Server Offload Card provides hardware accelerated image encoding for virtual desktops. The card will automatically detect which desktop displays will benefit most from hardware acceleration and seamlessly switch image encoding from the server’s CPU to the APEX 2800 card.

From a high-level, the installation steps are as follows, for more detailed information read the Quick Start Guide available on this page.

1. Download the latest APEX 2800 drivers and software
2. Install the APEX 2800 in the server
3. Install the ESXi driver package
4. Reboot the ESXi server
5. Install the APEX 2800 software in the virtual machines
6. Verify virtual machine pool/global policy settings
7. Shutdown the virtual machine and power on again (VM reboot/reset is not sufficient)
8. Verify APEX 2800 status
9. Verify hardware offload for virtual machine.