Arsenal Image Mounter

The Micromine Alastri Hub Launcher Tool that leverages a RAM Disk for Temporary Data

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I would like to introduce you to a PowerShell tool I originally created in early 2024, which was in the research and planning stage for about 12 months previous to that whilst I was finding a suitable RAM Disk solution. If you or your customer runs Micromine Alastri Software, especially in a virtualised desktop platform from Vendors such as Citrix, Omnissa, Parallels, Dizzion, Microsoft and Amazon, you may want to consider using this tool to help increase performance and reduce potential issues caused by the amount of temporary data (reads & writes) generated and consumed by the Alastri applications.

Alastri Hub Launcher

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Silently Installing and Automating the Arsenal Image Mounter (AIM) RAM Disk Feature

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Updated 17th November 2025

I previously wrote about The best free for commercial use RAM Disk that works perfectly with Desktop Virtualisation. This is a follow on from that article that will focus on:

  • The installation of Arsenal Image Mounter (AIM)
  • The automation for the creation of a RAM Disk
  • The challenges I experienced with the creation of the RAM Disk
  • How to deploy it
  • The scripts themselves

Here are further articles to demonstrate the use cases:

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The best free for commercial use RAM Disk that works perfectly with Desktop Virtualisation

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For context, a RAM Disk provides fast I/O (read and write) performance, faster than SSDs (Solid State Drives), with wider bandwidth and much lower latencies.

There are plenty of free and paid options for RAM Disk software available. This article is not about finding the fastest RAM Disk software available, so I haven’t gone out and benchmarked a range of products. My goal was to find the best “free for commercial use” RAM Disk software that works well and meets a list of requirements as laid out below. So I won’t be adding screen shots of output from tools like CrystalDiskMark, etc.

What is the best free for commercial use RAM Disk I hear you ask? The answer is Arsenal Image Mounter (AIM), from Arsenal Recon, which was developed by the legendary Olof Lagerkvist of ImDisk Toolkit fame.

Arsenal Image Mounter (AIM)

Okay, so I gave away the secret early in this article. But now I’m going to take you on a journey of how I got there, the use cases, the challenges, and the PowerShell scripts I used to deploy and create it.

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