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2 Configure a new path and folder for a network share or local drive.
Follow the same procedure you use when you create a new Transfer Server repository.
3
Add the View Transfer Server instances to View Manager.
4 Place the View Transfer Server instances in maintenance mode.
5 Configure the Transfer Server repository in View Manager, specifying the new network share or local
path.
View Transfer Server validates the new Transfer Server repository path. The status of each package is
Missing Package.
6 Return each View Transfer Server instance to a Ready state by exiting maintenance mode.
7 Delete the displaced packages from the Transfer Server repository.
8 Republish the packages to the Transfer Server repository.
Use the original parent virtual machines and snapshots to publish the View Composer base images as
packages in the repository.
Managing Data Transfers
You can set policies to configure replications and optimize transfer operations. You can also initiate replication
requests between scheduled replications. If necessary, you can roll back a desktop to discard the locally checked
out version.
Replications occur in sequence to preserve the integrity of local desktop data.
Each replication transfers data from a snapshot that is taken of the local desktop when the replication starts.
Therefore, each replication represents a different state of the local desktop.
When you initiate a replication, or when a replication is scheduled to begin, the request starts the next time
the client computer contacts the datacenter. View Client with Local Mode takes a snapshot and starts the
replication.
View maintains only one pending replication at a time.
NOTE At the beginning and end of each replication, the end user might notice that desktop performance is
affected for a few seconds while a local snapshot is taken or updated.
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Replication synchronizes local desktops with their corresponding remote desktops by sending user-
generated changes to the datacenter. You can set policies to configure replication frequency, to allow
users to defer replications, and to select the type of linked-clone disk to replicate.
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You can initiate replications for desktops that run in local mode. Your request can start a replication
before the next scheduled replication. If the client policy allows it, an end user who has checked out a
local desktop can also initiate a replication from within View Client.
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If an end user loses a laptop that contains a local desktop, or if the hard disk becomes damaged, you can
roll the View desktop back so that the end user can check the desktop out on another computer. If the
client policy allows it, an end user who has checked out a local desktop can also roll back the desktop
from within View Client.
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