Administration

Monitor a Push-Image Operation
You can monitor the progress of a push-image operation on an instant-clone desktop pool in View
Administrator.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools.
2 Double-click the pool ID.
The Summary tab shows the current image and pending image information.
3 Click the Tasks tab.
The list of tasks that are associated with the push-image operation appears.
Reschedule or Cancel a Push-Image Operation
You can reschedule or cancel a push-image operation on an instant-clone desktop pool in View
Administrator.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools.
2 Double-click the pool ID.
The Summary tab shows the current image and pending image information.
3 Select Push Image > Reschedule or Push Image > Cancel.
4 Follow the prompts.
If you cancel the push-image operation while clone creation is in progress, the clones that have the new
image remain in the pool and the pool has a mix of clones, some with the new image and the others with the
old image. To ensure that all the clones have the same image, you can remove all the clones. View recreates
the clones with the same image.
Managing Desktop Pools
In View Administrator you can perform administrative tasks on a desktop pool such as editing its
properties, enabling, disabling, or deleting the pool.
Edit a Desktop Pool
You can edit an existing desktop pool to congure seings such as the number of spare machines,
datastores, and customization specications.
Prerequisites
Familiarize yourself with the desktop pool seings that you can and cannot change after a desktop pool is
created. See “Modifying Seings in an Existing Desktop Pool,” on page 167 and “Fixed Seings in an
Existing Desktop Pool,” on page 169.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools.
2 Select a desktop pool and click Edit.
3 Click a tab in the Edit dialog box and recongure desktop pool options.
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