October 30, 2013
Category: rds-2012
Tags: data-deduplication, hyper-v, microsoft, microsoft-windows, powershell-command, rds, remote-desktop-services, windows-powershell, windows-server-2012
Deploy VDI Pools Faster in Server 2012 R2
By default RDS Virtual Desktop deployments are set to create/update a single VM per Host at one time.
To optimise and improve deployment times you can use the following PowerShell Command to increase the number of VM's being created/updated at one time per host.
Set-RDVirtualDesktopConcurrency
In Server 2012 you could only set the maximum number of 5 but in R2 you can configure a maximum of 20.
Before configuring this, make sure that your Storage system can handle the additional workload.