VDIs for Developers - What to choose?

[DiogoSousa20111]

Hello and greetings from Portugal!

I believe that this may be a very common question but, we're at the moment evaluating the creating of new VDIs for our developers.
There have been a lot of questions about what should be their "standard" VDI which made me also have some questions about it:

 - should we use full clones?
 - what should be the standard disk size?
 - is there any other special recommendations we should take in count?

Thanks in advance,
Best Regards,
Diogo Sousa

[DiogoSousa20111]

I'm creating a new template. Just got too many stuff done on that one.

Just one thing. The template needs to have an administrator account created?

[Mickeybyte]

Technically not. If the domain join works and you can logon with your domain admin, you're good to go, but you might want to have a local admin account just in case (doesn't have to be named "administrator")

[DiogoSousa20111]

Mickey just to do this right...

When installing View Agent, should I include the View Composer Agent?

[Mickeybyte]

No, you only need this for a linked clone desktop pool. You also don't need the instant clone agent.

[DiogoSousa20111]

so...template done...let's try to create a vm from template... 

[DiogoSousa20111]

yeeeah! I believe it worked now! already created 2 machines! 🙂 

Mickey! Thanks! Useful as usual!