I'm hoping there is a workaround/fix for this...
New system, HP EliteDesk G4, 32G RAM, 1TB boot disk, 4GB data disk, included exclusively for Workstation guests.
Workstation Pro 15.0.2 - which was installed from the 15.0 distro: VMware-workstation-full-15.0.0-10134415.exe, then upgraded to latest after completed initial installation.
When using Workstation with vCenter to get to vSphere guests, there are no issues. If I start one local guest, not involving vCenter at all, the disk utilization where the guest lives (the 4G disk) goes to 99-100% utilization. That "calms down" after a couple minutes, then when a second guest is started, utilization pegs again and can appear to hang. If left alone for 1-2 minutes, the logon screen will pop up and the disk starts to calm down again.
Looking through this forum, I found reference to turning off Device Guard and Credential Guard and Hyper-V.
After working a while any one of the guest, such as logging on, the disk utilization will spike, but in general calms down. If I'm testing MS Updates, this gets to being a bit trying. I have heard that this was a problem introduced by Microsoft from coworkers, but as they explain, the go into Windows 10 (1809) as a guest of an ESX host. This is not the case here, where I have various guests in Workstation Pro 15, primarily to test updates or new software before rolling it out to production.
As I was setting up my new system, Workstation Pro was one of the later products installed.
Any thoughts/suggestions/workarounds?
Alan Weitzsacker