
Deploying Microsoft Windows 7 Virtual Desktops with VMware View Applied Best Practices
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Contents
About this Document ...................................................................................................................... 5
Chapter 1 Optimizing Windows 7 for VDI Overview .................................................................................... 7
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure design challenges............................................................................ 8
Group Policy ........................................................................................................................... 9
Chapter 2 Customizing the Virtual Machine ................................................................................................. 11
Configure the virtual machine settings .......................................................................................... 12
Windows 7 compatibility ...................................................................................................... 12
vCPU count ........................................................................................................................... 12
Virtual machine memory ...................................................................................................... 12
SCSI controller ..................................................................................................................... 12
Disable virtual machine logging ........................................................................................... 12
Edit BIOS settings ................................................................................................................ 13
Install using 8 KB allocation size ......................................................................................... 14
Chapter 3 Windows 7 Operating System Optimization ................................................................................. 15
VMware optimizations .................................................................................................................. 16
Install VMware tools [A] ...................................................................................................... 16
Windows optimizations ................................................................................................................. 16
Disable error reporting [NP] ................................................................................................. 16
Disable automatic updates [NP]............................................................................................ 16
Remove unnecessary applications [A] .................................................................................. 17
Remove Windows components [A] ...................................................................................... 17
Change NTFS behavior [A] .................................................................................................. 17
Disable hibernation [A] ........................................................................................................ 17
Disable system restore [A] .................................................................................................... 17
Disable paging the executive [A] .......................................................................................... 18
Properly size virtual machine RAM [A] ............................................................................... 18
Set page file to fixed size [A] ............................................................................................... 18
Disable indexing [NP] .......................................................................................................... 18
Disable unnecessary services [A] ......................................................................................... 19
Disable SuperFetch [NP] ...................................................................................................... 19
Managing Processes with Process Explorer [A] ................................................................... 19
Streamline Windows with Autoruns [A] .............................................................................. 21
Disable success logging [NP] ............................................................................................... 21
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