Experimenting with a RAMdisk

re: Experimenting with a RAMdisk

Michael Niehaus — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:32:17 GMT

I did that already with another RAMDisk, see blogs.technet.com/.../more-experimenting-with-ramdisks-using-a-vm-completely-in-ram.aspx.

re: Experimenting with a RAMdisk

Christiaan — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:03:20 GMT

"Imagine a VM where the entire VHD is in a RAMdisk" . You may try the Qsoft Ramdisk for this , see

qsoftramdisk.orgfree.com/.../vhd.jpg

re: Experimenting with a RAMdisk

Michael Niehaus — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:46:40 GMT

Not really, as the CPU bottlenecks appear to be in two areas: mounting the Windows PE WIM file, and servicing that WIM file using DISM.EXE. So the improvements would need to come from those operations.

There are some improvements to those operations already in the ADK versions of the tools. I can see that both of my laptop's CPUs are being utilized by the operations (although the second one doesn't quite get to 100%).

re: Experimenting with a RAMdisk

Josh Mascote — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:05:32 GMT

Is it feasible to modify the source for "update-MDTDeploymentShare" to take advantage of multi-thread CPUs or the GPU (CUDA)??

re: Experimenting with a RAMdisk

Michel Zehnder — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:32:12 GMT

Stumbled upon a free ramdisk tool the other day: www.starwindsoftware.com/high-performance-ram-disk-emulator

Should be supported on server OS as well...

Cheers