How to speed up your Horizon View operations, you might ask? Well, you don’t have to buy an all-flash storage system or beef up your ESX hosts.

VMware Horizon View Administrator has some settings on max concurrent operations with vCenter and VMware View Composer. Increasing some of those settings can decrease the time of those operations, however when decreasing those settings, you can limit the amount of IOPs pushed to your underlying storage system, too.

Max concurrent vCenter provisioning operations
Limits the number of create and delete operations, which Horizon View can send to the vCenter.
This setting only applies to Full Clones and not to Linked Clones.

Max concurrent power operations
This settings allows you to control boot and logon-storms.
By default, 50 concurrent VMs can be either powered-on, powered-off, suspended or paused.
This setting applies to both, Full Clones and Linked Clones.

Max concurrent View Composer maintenance operations
This settings limits the amount of concurrent recompose, refresh and rebalance operations.
This setting only applies to Linked Clones.

Max concurrent View Composer provisioning operations
Limits the number of create and delete operations, which View Composer can send to the vCenter.
This setting only applies to Linked Clones.