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Chapter 6 View Composer
8 SelecttheParentVMtobeusedasthebaseimageforthedeployment.Youareonly
presentedwithvirtualmachinesthatcontainoneormoresnapshotsthatwere
takenwhenthevirtualmachinewaspowereddown.ClickNext.
9 SelectthesnapshotyoupreviouslycreatedontheParentVMwhilein
itsinactive
stateandclickNext.
10 SelectwhereyouwantthefolderforthisdesktoppooltoresidewithinvCenter
ServerandclickNext.
11 Selectahostoraclusteronwhichtorunthevirtualmachinesusedbythisdesktop.
TheUsevSpheremodeforViewComposercheckboxbecomes
availableifyou
selectaclusterthatcontainsESX/ESXi4hostsonly.ThenewvSpheremodeismore
reliablethaninpreviousreleasesandsupportsup‐to‐datehardware
configurations,butvSphere4requires64‐bit(x86_64)hardware.Ifyouplanto
haveESX/ESXi3.5hostsinthecluster ,do
notselectthischeckbox.
ClickNext.
12 Selectaresourcepoolinwhichtorunthevirtualmachinesusedbythisdesktop
andclickNext.
Stopprovisioningonerror SelectthischeckboxifyouwantViewManagerto
automaticallystopprovisioningnewvirtualmachinesif
anerrorisdetectedduringdesktopcreation.
AdvancedSettings Clicktodisplaytheadvancedpoolconfigurationsettings.
Youcanenabletheadvancedparametersbyselectingthe
EnableAdvancedPoolSettingscheck
box.Thiswill
disablethePoolSizeparameter.
Numberofdesktops(minimum)—theminimumnumber
ofdesktopsthatmustbeprovisionedforthispool.
Numberofdesktops(maximum)—themaximumnumber
ofdesktopsthatcanbeprovisionedforthispool.
Numberofdesktops(available)—Thenumberofvirtual
machinesthatmustbeunassigned
andavailableforuseat
anygiventime.Thisfigurecannotexceedthemaximum
numberofdesktopsavailabletothepooloverall.
NOTEOnlyclustersof8hostsorfeweraresupportedandshown.
Property Parameter Description