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24 Deployment Guide
MicrosoftWindows Tuning Tips
• Use Perfmon to profile the Windows application and identify its key
resource, then:
• Isolate or limit sharing to each VM's key resource.
• Save perfmon-tuned, gold images for cloning. For example:
• Install Windows, Windows service packs and patches,
VMware Tools, anti-virus, management agents, backup agent,
application, application service packs, and patches. Save this
pre-tuned golden master.
• Do performance profiling with perfmon to determine the
optimal, tuned golden master to save for cloning. Although
you may want to retain images at several installation points for
future use as golden masters, note that performance tuning is
after the full installation, including application.
• Windows Terminal Service (WTS) performance is greatly improved by
setting the workload attribute to "Terminal Services". This option can
be enabled in the MUI when creating the virtual machine, or by adding
the following line in the configuration file of the virtual machine:
workload = "TerminalServices"
• Similarly, Citrix MetaFrame XP performs better by installing hotfix
XE102W014 in the guest Windows OS.
MicrosoftWindows 2003 Tuning Tips
• Dell recommends that you do all performance tuning experiments
prior to activating your license for Windows 2003 operating system.
MicrosoftWindows 2000 Tuning Tips
• After installing VMware Tools, you need to change your Windows 2000
screen area to be greater than 640x480 pixels; if you do not change it,
Windows 2000 uses the standard VGA driver, degrading performance.
• Use the VMware SCSI driver, supplied within VMware Tools, instead of
Microsoft's Buslogic driver.
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