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Re: speeding up Windows 7 VMware linked-clone log on times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Dustin)
Mon Apr 23 16:16:52 2012
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:16:17 -0400
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From: Jon Dustin <jdustin@usm.maine.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <4F95AB6F.1080400@wheatoncollege.edu>
Take a look at USER DATA DISK with the VMware View documentation. Basically creates a persistent disk for each user, and "attaches" it to the View machine upon login.
We are not running it here, but I've heard it is pretty slick.
Good luck!
>>> On 4/23/2012 at 3:20 PM, in message <4F95AB6F.1080400@wheatoncollege.edu>,
Brian Gibson <gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone out there using VMware View's linked clone non-persistent
> desktops? Everything works well with our Windows 7 pool but since the
> user doesn't have a local profile when they log in the wait for creating
> it is long (about 78 seconds). Anyone know of a way to speed things up?
>
> We tried ForensIT's Profile Manager 2.1 and it 'kinda' helped but not
> enough (knocked it down to about 60 seconds). What I would love to be
> able to do is map the new user to a local profile we already have on the
> master image. When a user already has a profile the time for the desktop
> to load is 11 seconds.
>
> Another approach we could use in XP was use Microsoft's CopyProfile.exe
> to preload everyone's profile but I can't seem to find a tool like that
> for Windows 7 and that approach will make our images crazy-big.
>
> We also moved our domain group policies into local group policies and I
> thought for sure that would speed things up but it only knocked off
> about 3 seconds :-(
>
> I'd rather not store the user's profiles on a server, it'd be just
> another thing to manage.
--
Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME 207-780-4152
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