The importance of desktop optimization

While nothing stops you from using a default installation of any OS or software package in a virtualized environment, you may find it difficult to maintain consistent levels of performance in Horizon environments where many of the resources are shared, and, in almost every case, oversubscribed in some manner. In this section, we will examine a sample of the CPU and disk IO resources that could be recovered were you to optimize the Master Horizon desktop image.

Tip

Due to the technological diversity that exists from one organization to the next, optimizing your Master Horizon desktop image is not an exact science. The optimization techniques used and their end results will likely vary from one organization to the next, due to factors unrelated to Horizon or vSphere.