Vdesktop | Siemens

A plant running PCS 7 could not upgrade their Windows 7 PCs. They deployed vDesktops. Now, engineers access modern Windows 10 environments from their legacy thin clients, maintaining validation status without new hardware.

Siemens (also referred to as the Siemens Virtual Desktop) is a corporate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution designed to provide secure, remote access to a personal Windows desktop environment from any device at any time. Key Features and Performance vdesktop siemens

The applications running inside the virtual machine (VM): A plant running PCS 7 could not upgrade their Windows 7 PCs

Note: Real-time requirements (e.g., WinCC RT with millisecond polling to hardware) require careful GPU and network tuning. For pure engineering (offline programming), it is flawless. Siemens (also referred to as the Siemens Virtual

| Operation | Physical (i7-11700) | vDesktop (4 vCPU + 16 GB) | |-----------|----------------------|----------------------------| | Open TIA Portal | 22 sec | 24 sec | | Compile OB1 | 3 sec | 3.8 sec | | Download to PLC (S7-1500) | 8 sec | 9 sec (via tunneled Profinet) | | WinCC Runtime startup | 12 sec | 15 sec |

IT departments can quickly provision new virtual machines for contractors or seasonal projects without the lead time of shipping physical hardware.

: Multiple engineering stations and clients can run on a single, robust server, reducing the physical footprint by up to 80%.