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This is an AWESOME write up!!! BUT!! Be careful with this automated upgrade of memory! You need to make sure your host hypervisor has the memory to accept this. Recommend some sort of approval process from IT. You can run a hypervisor out of resources real quick if an application goes nuts on 100 machines without some checks and balances.

Your ProfileUnity filters are driving it based on AD Group membership. That is great. But you need to trend the user to make sure they actually need that memory all the time and that the Hypervisor Host can support it.

BUT.... Again this is a great use case... Love it!!

On virtual machines, even though there is no vGPU in the host, VMware tools still have a driver that looks like a GPU to the OS and the applications. Making a few simple tweaks to the registry, group policy, or ProfileUnity to turn off hardware acceleration to core applications on non vGPU virtual machines can result in a CPU reduction on your host operating system.

More information can be found here: https://community.liquidware.com/discussion/39/stratusphere-spotcheck-methodology-cheat-sheet

The attached PDF will guide you through disabling hardware acceleration either through GPO, Registry, or ProU for the following applications:

1. Google Chrome
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Microsoft Office
4. Internet Explorer

The attached TXT file is a registry module import for ProU. Please remove the .txt to make it a .json for import.