Creating a well thought out and well tuned Windows XP Template is important for a successful VDI implementation. My intent for this whitepaper is that it will guide you in developing a solid VDI Desktop standard for your organization. Included in this whitepaper is information to assist in reducing your Windows XP footprint and to apply best practices to the Windows XP configuration for improved performance, manageability, and reliability of your VDI environment. Since computer environments can vary from one organization to another, it is recommended that all best practices listed in this document be tested in your test VDI environment to ensure that it is helps and not hinder your VDI solution.
Download the whitepaper here: Creating a VDI Windows XP Template.
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October 27th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Hi,
Some really great details on best practices for creating an XP VDI instance. I have a couple of questions however:
Is the creation of a build use of nLite in an enterprise situation supported by Microsoft?
Will we be seeing a similar guide for the creation of a Vista instance any time soon?
Many thanks,
Jordan
October 29th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
thanks, really thoughtful stuff - you can see that it’s been based on practical experience. I am planning to redo my demo VDI environment and will as many of these tips as I can.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
In reply to this article.
nLite cannot be used for commercial purposes! This rules it out for VDI deployments. In addition Microsoft themselves have tight guidelines on what they will support if you use an unsupported method other than sysprep.
nLite is simply a tool for techies and should not really form part of anyone live running production setup for VDI or any other purpose.
The best approach is to use the inbuilt SAN software to reduce the space requirements, or wait until VDM or Provision’s broker have the linked clone feature which is due out for both products next year we hope.
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