Vmware. Эталонный образ сервера Windows Server

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1. Create virtual machine
• 4 CPU cores (default)
• 4 GB RAM (default)
• 40GB HDD SCSI (0;0) Thin Provision
• SCSI controller LSI Logic SAS. For VM with high IO load use VMware Paravirtualization (VM PVSCSI)
• Virtual Machine version 8 (default)
• use VMXNET3 network adapter
• Use EFI boot firmware
2. Install Windows Server 2012
3. Windows settings
• install VMware Tools
• open Control Panel
• check Date and Time settings
• check Language Settings (ENG - UKR - RUS)
• Power Options
• set High Performance
• set Turn off the display - Never
• Region settings
• check settings
• Advanced - Copy Settings... - copy settings to welcome screen and New  user account
• System - Change settings
• Allow remote connections to this computer
• set computer name
• temporary join to Active Directory domain for Windows Update. After updating Windows - remove server form Active Directory
• Advanced - Startup and Recovery settings - use Small memory dump
• open cmd with Admin rights and run (it disables hibernation): powercfg -h off
• select disk C: properties - uncheck Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties - Apply to C:\ only
• enable File and Printer Sharing in Windows Firewall for Domain network
• after installing all Windows Updates
• cleanup system
  to analyze system run
  dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
  
  to cleanup system run
  dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
• after cleanup system
• disable swap file and reboot
• defragment system disk C:
• enable swap file and reboot
4. В конце можно финализировать образ
   sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown

http://blog.solori.net/2010/09/30/in-the-lab-windows-server-2008-r2-template-for-vmware/
http://www.mikes.eu/index.php/how-to/284-how-to-build-a-windows-2008-r2-vmware-template-2.html
http://willcode4foodblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/creating-a-server-2012-golden-image-with-sysprep-and-vmware-workstation-part-2-of-2/