VMware TechZone Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop Preparation If you have any Serial ports, remove them.

There’s no need for the Floppy drive so remove it.The important part is to make sure ISO file is not configured. Before using Horizon Administrator to create a pool based off of this master image, ensure the CD/DVD drive points to Client Device and is not Connected.When building the master virtual desktop, you will probably boot from an ISO.The master virtual desktop should be configured with a VMXNET 3 network adapter.Make sure the virtual desktop is using a SCSI controller.For New Hard disk, consider setting Thin provision.See System Requirements for Real-Time Audio-Video at VMware Docs. When using Microsoft Teams with Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV), VMware recommends that the virtual desktop have a minimum of 4vCPU and 4 GB RAM.vCPUs, memory size, network label) specified on the master virtual desktop. The virtual desktop pools will use the same hardware specs (e.g.Lieven D’hoore has a desktop VM build checklist at VMware Horizon View – Windows 10 Golden Image Creation

2020 Aug 14 – updated entire article for Horizon 2006 (aka 8.0).

2020 Oct 18 – DEM Agent – updated for DEM 2009.

2021 Jan 8 – Horizon Agent – updated for Horizon 2012 (8.1).

2021 Mar 24 – Horizon Agent – updated for Horizon 2103 (8.2).

2021 May 29 – Apps – added list of special VDI installers.

2021 July 16 – Horizon Agent – updated for Horizon 2106 (8.3).

2021 Dec 2 – Horizon Agent – updated for Horizon 2111 (8.4).

2021 Dec 25 – VMware OS Optimization Tool – updated download link.

2022 Mar 10 – Install Horizon Agent – updated with newer build for log4j 2.17.1.

2022 Apr 6 – DEM Agent – updated for DEM 2203.

2022 Apr 6 – Horizon Agent – updated for Horizon 2203 (8.5).

2022 July 21 – Horizon Agent – updated for Horizon 2206 (8.6).

Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) Agent Installation/Upgrade.

This post applies to all VMware Horizon versions 2006 (aka 8.0) and newer. There’s a separate article for RDS Session Host. Use this post to build a virtual desktop that will be used as the parent image (aka source image, aka master image, aka gold image) for additional virtual desktops.

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