Tag Archive for: VDI

Differences in creating Windows 10 and Windows 11 images on VMware vSphere with Packer.

Not so long a ago I wanted to switch my Windows 10 image creation based on Microsoft MDT and in-guest PowerShell scripts to HasiCorp Packer on my VMware vSphere and Horizon homelab environment. A lot of the vCommunity members wrote blogs about this image creation with Packer, so in this blog I don’t want to […]

Dealing with local admin rights on a (non-)persistent VDI.

Use case Recently I had to work on an use case where “VMware Writable Volumes” on VMware Horizon non-persistent VDI came into play for research and development users.The Writable Volume is used for installing developer applications with personlized libraries or even self developed applications. There is really an easy way to give users local administrator […]