Enable 3D support: ONLY enable when you have a GPU card installed in the ESXi hosts.

HDD: 32 GB (disk size depends on the size of expected locally installed applications).

Customise Hardware – Virtual Hardware Tab.

Guest OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) or Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit).

Compatibility (=Hardware version): choose the highest available for your environment (depends on your version of ESXi).

Compute Resource: depending on the environment.

Name: depending on naming convention standards (Note: use a name of less then 15 characters).

Only optimizations of the core OS are described, the impact of installed applications within the guest will also need to be evaluated.īelow are the steps to follow to create an optimized golden image for VDI STEP 1: VMware Template ConfigurationĬreate a new Virtual Machine using the vSphere Web client

(the same procedure also works for Windows 7) In this blog post I describe the steps required to create a Virtual Machine template using Windows 10 from scratch.

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