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Options
Table 17-11. Options for Reclaiming Disk Space on Virtual Machines
Option Description
-d desktop Specifies the name of the desktop pool.
-m machine Specifies 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 Manager 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 17-12 shows the options that you can specify to configure domain filters.
Table 17-12. Options for Configuring Domain Filters
Option Description
-add
Adds a domain to a list.
-domain domain Specifies the domain to be filtered.
You must specify domains by their NetBIOS names and not
by their DNS names.
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