Specifications

View Manager Administration Guide
136 VMware, Inc.
Therebalancefeatureoffersadministratorsagracefulmechanismforintroducing
additionalstoragetoadatastoreinordertopreventthelatteroutcome.Inaddition,
priortoexecutingtherebalanceactionyoumayalsoretireoldstorageandmake
resourcepoolalterations,andhostchanges.
OnlydesktopsintheReady,Error,or
Customizingstatewithnoschedulesorpending
cancellationscanberebalanced.Inaddition,youcannotrebalancetheloadbetweenthe
localstoragesystemsonmultiplestandaloneESXservers.
Itisrecommendedtokeeplinkedclonedesktopvirtualmachinesonadatastorewith
noothertypeofvirtualmachinesothatthe
rebalanceactionisappliedtoallthevirtual
machines.
Persistent and Non-Persistent Desktops
Bothpersistentandnon‐persistentdesktopconfigurationsaresupportedbyView
Composer.Inpersistentconfigurations,dedicateddisks—asystemdiskforoperating
systemdataandauserdiskforuserdata—canbeusedtokeeptheoperatingsystem
anduserdataseparate.Thisensuresthateveniftheoperatingsystemisrecomposed
or
refreshedtheuserdataremainsunaffected.
Innon‐persistentconfigurationstheuserdataistransientsotheoperatingsystemdata
anduserdataarestoredonthesystemdisk.Inthisconfigurationuserdataisnot
protectedifthesystemisrecomposedorrefreshed.
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OTEInordertorebalancethedesktopsitisnecessaryforViewManagerto
automaticallyrefreshtheiroperatingsystemsagainsttheircurrentbaseimageand
returnthesystemdatatoitsbaselinestate—userdataisunaffectedifitresidesona
separateuserdatadisk.
NOTEPersistentdesktopscanbesettorefreshautomaticallywhentheuserlogsoff.
Thiscanhelpminimizethespacerequirementsofthepool.Similarly,non‐persistent
poolscanbesettodeleteafterfirstuse,whichreducesthenumberofinactivedesktops
inthepooloverall.