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VMware windows guest machine freezes during work by RDP

Preconditions:
I have a guest virtual machine on Windows 8.1 using VMWare Workstation 15.5.6 build-16341506. I use it for development. It is places on a separate SSD disk of the host machine.

I have a host machine on the same Windows 8.1 in my office with guest virtual machine above. Windows is installed on C:\ drive of own SSD disk.

Steps:

  1. I connect  via RDP  from home (windows 10) to host machine in office.
  2. From host machine I open virtual machine (guest)
  3. Write code and work in guest machine.
  4. Collapse RDP  connection to host machine (return to home)
  5. Return back to host machine and virtual machine (key step)
  6. Work, wait for 2-5 minutes. Make some operation like run desktop application or Visual Studio, or code in Visual Studio IDE. Or sometime (randomly) when SSD read or write operations accrued.

Expected result: no freezes for host or guest machine
Actual Result: guest machine freezes for about 15-30 seconds. CPU (previously I thought that HDD) usage of host machine rises to 100%.  I can collapse VMWare workstation while it it frozen and work by RDP with host machine without any problems

Additionally: If go to office and work with guest VMWare machine - I will never have any freezes. In version 12 I had no such a problem.

Also I already changed system HHD of host machine  to SSD. And mainboard was also changed

 

Could you please help to fix this problem?

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