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Customizing the Virtual Machine

Deploying Microsoft Windows 7 Virtual Desktops with VMware View Applied Best Practices

7. Press F10 to save the configuration and exit the BIOS.

Install using 8 KB allocation size

EMC has seen increased performance with Windows 7 when formatting the boot volume with an

allocation size of 8192 bytes instead of 4096 bytes. Currently the Windows installer does not

support creating an 8 kilobyte allocation size during the installation with the graphical interface.

To install Windows 7 with an 8 kilobyte allocation size perform the following steps.

1. Boot from the Windows 7 ISO image or CD and proceed through the install steps until the

Where do you want to install Windows dialog appears.

2. Press Shift-F10 to bring up a command window.

3. In the command window, enter the following commands:

a. Diskpart

b. Select disk 0

c. Create partition primary size=400

d. active

e. format fs=ntfs label=”System Reserve” quick

f. Create partition primary

g. Format fs=ntfs label=OS_8k unit=8192

h. Assign

i. Exit

4. Click the Refresh button to refresh the Where do you want to install Windows screen.

5. Select Disk 0 Partition 2.

6. Complete the install to the second disk formatted with the 8192 allocation size, as shown in

Figure 4 below.

Figure 4 Install on 8K partition

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