Average login times with Appstacks 2.12 Win7

[MikeC3964]

Good morning,

I was curious to get some feedback on peoples login time when you have appstacks attached opposed to when you don't. Windows 7 is my gold image, when I don't have any appstacks attached, I can get to a desktop in about 7 seconds, when I have appstacks attached, it easily adds 10+ seconds to the login time. I'm curious to see if this is the norm, for login times.

Thank you,

Mike

[ParthG]

I get around 13-14 sec without app stack attachment and with attachment of 1 app stack about 3 sec extra, every app stack i attach to VM adds about 3-4 sec login time.

Using N drive no persona or UEM

[MikeC3964]

thanks for your feedback ParthG.

[jmatz135]

From what I've found is that it is pretty heavily dependent on what is in the appstack.  If I have a stack that just has Adobe Reader, Java and Flash it will probably take about 3-4 seconds.  If I have a stack that has all of the System Administration consoles that our users use it can take 15-20 seconds for the appstack to mount and finish processing.  Note that these are two different things, the actual stack is mounted in about 1 second, but it takes time for app volumes to process the merge of the stack with the OS. 

If anyone has any suggestions that could make the processing of a stack more efficient let me know though.

[AWordPlease]

Have you tried assigning AppStacks to computers instead of users? This is supposed to decrease login times because applications are allocated and initialized during system boot, not user login.

[MikeC3964]

That would be a great idea. I'm currently using instant clones, and i have to assign the app stack to an already provisioned machine(which isn't ideal). Once it's done, and the machine is trashed, I noticed that in app vol manager, it was showing orphaned next to a machine after it was refreshed. Is there a way around this doing it the way you're suggesting?

Thanks,

Mike