{"id":26579,"date":"2016-06-14T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/vdi-golden-images-best-practices\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T12:51:19","slug":"vdi-golden-images-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/vdi-golden-images-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Best practices for VDI golden images management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the advantages for IT admins is that golden images can be configured to adhere to corporate <strong>security<\/strong> and compliance requirements, hence ensuring all virtual desktops generated by the image adhere to those policies too. <\/p>\n<p>Some organizations don&#8217;t have a standard desktop configuration, since they may have <strong>different user profiles<\/strong> with different requirements. In these cases they should maintain multiple golden images. It is recommended to <strong>limit the number of golden images<\/strong> to make it easier for IT to manage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updating<\/strong> golden images is the most trickier task, because usually there is a patch to apply or a configuration to be changed. In many cases, updating a golden image doesn&#8217;t mean the virtual desktops based on that image are automatically updated even syncing the changes.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, when changes are synchronized, <strong>new virtual desktops are generated<\/strong> based on the updated base image. But if we&#8217;re using <strong>persistent desktops<\/strong>, this process can&#8217;t be performed, since all user data and configurations would be deleted. Thus, admins may have to <strong>update persistent virtual desktops individually<\/strong>. A useful tip in these cases is is to apply several updates at a time, to regenerate desktops a single time instead of each time an update is applied.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you should bear in mind that a wrong golden image configuration will affect all virtual desktops, so you should <strong>always test updated golden images<\/strong> before generating new virtual desktops. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com\/tip\/Go-for-gold-with-VDI-image-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SearchVirtualDesktop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VDI golden images allow to deploy several <strong>virtual desktops<\/strong> based on a <strong>single base image<\/strong>. This configuration simplifies a lot desktop management but also complicates updates. <\/p>\n<p>A <strong>VDI<\/strong> <strong>golden image<\/strong> contains an <strong>operating system<\/strong> and <strong>hardware configuration<\/strong>. Windows-based images can be managed using Microsoft Sysprep tool in order to clone the OS. The image usually contains also <strong>patches<\/strong> and <strong>applications<\/strong>, but applications can be also virtualized separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[985,971,924],"tags":[986,972,930],"class_list":["post-26579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-tips","category-vdi-en","tag-hot-news","tag-tips","tag-vdi-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Best practices for VDI golden images management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/vdi-golden-images-best-practices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best practices for VDI golden images management\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"VDI golden images allow to deploy several virtual desktops based on a single base image. 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