bobyuen
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We've only recently started using Windows 10 with Horizon and noticed the slow boot. It was only yesterday I figured out that my performance boot time was related to the number of snapshot I had with my Windows 1909 and 2004 image.

It was only this morning that I Googled and found this discussion only to find out that his boot issue has been going on for quite some time since this post was done on Oct 18, 2018. It's only 8 days away from being 2 years and no resolution

Anyways I thought I chime in and say that I've been having problems too with 1909 and 2004. I read through and found the KB articles that VMware recommends using the older 1809 image.

In my tests when using 2004 build. It took about 7 Sec to boot with no Snapshot. Additional snapshots would add about 20-30 sec to the total boot time.

My environment :
6.7.0.13006603

Horizon 7.12 build 15770369

Storage, Netapp FAS8200,  VMFS6

All I can say is that I hope they have a fix as this causes massive problems with Horizon and Instant clones. Horizon has a certain threshold limits and requires the OS to boot by a certain time before the provision task fails. Yesterday I thought I had a DHCP problem but it turns out to be Windows 10 taking forever to boot causing it to fail causing a trickling effect.

Anyways I opened a support with VMware to keep them working on this issue. I know more today about this problem with Windows 10 than when I started. Maybe its time to move back to Windows 7. LOL

Bob

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