Jeramy Thompson

 Windows 11 has finally GA'ed so now its time to do some testing. If you don't have the required hardware no problem, we can apply some work arounds. In our Setup we will be using the following Setup Horizon 8 vSphere 7.0U3 Windows 11 GA First download the Windows 11 ISO, put it on a datastore Create a new VM for the parent VM. I chose Windows 10 as the Guest OS Confirm that Secure Boot is enabled And left everything as Default Now Console into your VM and power it on, Once you get to the  'Windows Setup' screen press Shift +F10 This will bring up a command prompt, from here type regedit and hit enter From this point navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup Right-click on Setup key and select New -> Key option.  Name it LabConfig  Select LabConfig key and then create the following 3 new DWORDs and set their values to 1 to bypass or disable TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and RAM amount checks BypassTPMCheck BypassSecureBootCheck BypassRAMCheck Close regedit, and the command

 One task I run into quite often is deploying Instant Clone pools to test one thing or another. I dont always leave my lab running, so all the pools get deleted , and then recreated when needed. If you have ever created an instant you know you have to click about 20 settings, while not a monumental task, it is a bit reparative. So we are going to go through the process of creating our own script , so we only need to click once to deploy our instant clone pool. You are going to need a couple of things: Internet access PowerCLI installed PowerCLI Example Scripts (Optional) A dedicated workstation to store your password on. Ok lets start with installing PowerCLI. Open power shell as an administrator And run the following command to install PowerCLI Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI Type A and hit Enter Wait for the progress bar to complete  the install of the modules Once Complete run the following to verify it was installed and get the Version number if you need it at some point Get-Module