Monday 8 April 2013

Min. Resource Requirements for a Horizon Workspace PoC or Lab

With the release of VMware Horizon Workspace many of us are evaluating it and testing this in our labs. When you install the vApp it creates 5 VMs each of which are allocated a certain amount of vCPU and memory which while sized for production can be overkill for some PoC and definitely lab environments.

To help with evaluating this is a resource constrained environment it is possible to reduce the resource allocation to each of the VMs after deploying the VM.

If you are only evaluating this is your lab you may be able to squeeze these settings down further to save resources. The one I would not touch is the Data-va as reducing it further is known to cause issues.

Test the changes to make sure it doesn't cause any timings issues and remember this is not supported.