View 4 Desktop Optimization

Andretii

I am testing out deploying many vm's through view manager 4 and I need to obtain the best performance that the software can give.

The ESX resources are very high so the VM's have plenty of CPU pwr and Memory. I just need some tips and tricks as to how to configure the view manager and VM's to get the best out of them.

The vm's are running W7 Enterprise 32-bit. Assigned with 2 processors and 3GB of RAM.

Any comments are welcome

MentholMoose

I've only worked with XenDesktop, but I assume some of the tuning is applicable to View. Here are a couple links that I found useful:
Windows XP Performance Optimizations for XenDesktop and Provisioning Server vDisks (XP only)
XenDesktop Tuning Tips (XP and above)

Many of the tuning tips are the same as what you'd use when building a lean workstation, such as disabling useless services and graphic effects (menu delays and transitions). I don't recall implementing any one thing that made a huge difference (some Citrix specific fixes made a big difference), but I've only deployed XP.