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Jack's VMware OS Optimization Tool

Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:30:28 +0000

VMware colleague Jack McMichael has released the a tool that helps to optimize Windows 7 desktops for use with VMware Horizon View and VDI in general. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. Since most Windows system services are enabled by default, the optimization tool can be used to easily disable unnecessary services and features to improve performance.

Why you should move your VDI to Windows 8

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:28:09 +0000

I believe I may have found a pretty compelling reason to migrate your VDI deployment to Windows 8. While running some experiments I collected some statistics for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 2K8 Server running as virtual desktops.

At this point we should all be familiar with the challenges associated with the number and latency of IOs in VDI environments, therefore I am not getting getting into details in this article.

Mastering VDI Templates updated for Windows7 and PCoIP

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:32:00 +0000

I have just uploaded an updated version of my Mastering VDI Templates spreadsheet. This is the 3rd version of the document and adds Windows 7 specific customisations and few additional PCoIP configuration settings.

Amongst the new item are:

Disable copy/paste using PCoIP
Configure PCoIP virtual channels
Change Startup Check Disk (Win7)
Disable updates to the Last Access Time stamp (Win7)

Download the updated version here: