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3D acceleration offers. However, this configuration both allows the virtual machine to run on any host 

(vSphere5.0 or higher) and allows you to block virtual machines from using a hardware GPU in a host. 

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Hardware only uses hardware-accelerated GPUs. If hardware GPU is not present in a host, the virtual 

machine will either not start or you will not be able to live-migrate it via vSphere vMotion to that host. As 

long as the host that the virtual machine is being moved to has a capable and available hardware GPU, 

vSphere vMotion is possible with this specification. This setting can be used to guarantee that a virtual 

machine will always use hardware 3D rendering when a GPU is available; but that, in turn, limits the virtual 

machine to host with hardware GPUs. 

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Disabled does not use 3D rendering at all (software or hardware) and overrides vSphere 3D settings to 

disable 3D. Use this setting to ensure that Horizon View desktop pools with non-graphical workloads do not 

use unnecessary resources, like sharing hardware GPU when running on the same cluster as Horizon View 

desktops with heavier graphics workloads.