Administration

n
Verify that a blackout period is not in eect. See "Set Storage Accelerator and Space Reclamation
Blackout Times for View Composer Linked Clones" in the Seing Up Virtual Desktops in Horizon 7
document.
Options
Table 12‑11. Options for Reclaiming Disk Space on Virtual Machines
Option Description
-d desktop
Species the name of the desktop pool.
-m machine
Species the name of the virtual machine.
-MarkForSpaceReclamation
Marks the virtual machine for disk space reclamation.
Example
Marks the virtual machine machine3 in the desktop pool pool1 for disk space reclamation.
vdmadmin -M -d pool1 -m machine3 -markForSpaceReclamation
Configuring Domain Filters Using the ‑N Option
You can use the vdmadmin command with the -N option to control the domains that View makes available to
end users.
Syntax
vdmadmin -N [-b authentication_arguments] -domains {-exclude | -include | -search} -domain
domain -add [-s connsvr]
vdmadmin -N [-b authentication_arguments] -domains -list [-w | -n] [-xml]
vdmadmin -N [-b authentication_arguments] -domains -list -active [-w | -n] [-xml]
vdmadmin -N [-b authentication_arguments] -domains {-exclude | -include | -search} -domain
domain -remove [-s connsvr]
vdmadmin -N [-b authentication_arguments] -domains {-exclude | -include | -search} -removeall
[-s connsvr]
Usage Notes
Specify one of the -exclude, -include, or -search options to apply an operation to the exclusion list,
inclusion list, or search exclusion list respectively.
If you add a domain to a search exclusion list, the domain is excluded from an automated domain search.
If you add a domain to an inclusion list, the domain is included in the results of the search.
If you add a domain to an exclusion list, the domain is excluded from the results of the search.
Options
Table 12-12 shows the options that you can specify to congure domain lters.
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