Setting Up for Linux Desktops

In Horizon Administrator, you can view the desktop VMs as they are added to the pool by selecting
Catalog > Desktop Pools.
After you create the pool, do not delete the master image or remove it from the vCenter Server inventory
if the pool exists. If you remove the master image VM from the vCenter Server inventory by mistake, you
must add it back and then do a push image using the current image.
What to do next
Entitle users to access the pool. See "Add Entitlements to Desktop Pools" in Setting Up Virtual Desktops
in Horizon 7.
Broker PowerCLI Commands
The View PowerCLI cmdlets which are to perform various administration tasks on Connection Server and
Windows desktop, can also work for Linux desktop.
Create a Manual Desktop Pool
Add-ManualPool -DefaultProtocol Blast -AllowProtocolOverride $false -threedRender usevc|vgpu -Pool_id
<pool id> [more parameters]
For Linux Desktop the following options and values are mandatory.
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DefaultProtocol Blast
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AllowProtocolOverride $false
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threedRender usevc|vgpu. For vGPU desktop, use -threedRender vgpu and for 2D/vSGA/vDGA
desktop -threedRender usevc .
Examples
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Create a floating Linux Desktop pool named LinuxDesktop with a virtual machine, LinuxVM-01.
Add-ManualPool -DefaultProtocol Blast -AllowProtocolOverride $false -threedRender usevc -Pool_id
LinuxDesktop -Id (Get-DesktopVM -Name LinuxVM-01).id -Persistence NonPersistent -Vc_name
myvc.myorg.org
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Create a dedicated Linux vGPU desktop pool named LinuxDesktop with all VMs that start with VM
name as LinuxVM-.
Get-DesktopVM | Where-Object {$_.Name.StartsWith("LinuxVM-")} | Add-ManualPool -DefaultProtocol
Blast -AllowProtocolOverride $false -Persistence Persistent -threedRender vgpu -Pool_id
LinuxDesktop
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Create floating Linux desktop pool LinuxDesktop with the first RHEL 6 x64 VM.
Get-DesktopVM | Where-Object {$_.GuestID -eq "rhel6_64Guest"} | Select-Object -Index 0 | Add-
ManualPool -DefaultProtocol Blast -AllowProtocolOverride $false -Persistence NonPersistent -
threedRender usevc -Pool_id LinuxDesktop
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