Best Practices

Golden Image Management

• Create purpose-specific golden images (e.g., one for users with creative or technical apps, one for development)
• Document what's installed in each golden image
• Refresh golden images periodically with Windows updates
• Test thoroughly before deploying widely

Resource Planning

• Plan disk sizes upfront — you cannot resize, but you can add additional drives
• Leave headroom on your cluster — VMs need dedicated resources
• Monitor node capacity when deploying multiple VMs

What NOT to Do

• Don't use VNC for daily work—it's for maintenance only
• Don't set resources to "unlimited"—always use explicit limits
• Don't deploy to production clusters during beta
• Don't expect VM migration yet—VMs stay on their initial node