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Table 5-3. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool
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Option Description Fill In Your Value Here
Redirect Windows profile to
persistent disks
If you select dedicated user assignments, choose
whether to store Windows user-profile data on a
separate View Composer persistent disk or the
same disk as the OS data.
Separate persistent disks let you preserve user
data and settings. View Composer refresh,
recompose,
and rebalance operations do not affect
persistent disks. You can detach a persistent disk
from a linked clone and recreate the linked-clone
desktop from the detached disk. For example,
when a desktop or pool is deleted, you can detach
the persistent disk and recreate the desktop,
preserving the original user data and settings.
If you store the Windows profile in the OS disk,
user data and settings are removed during refresh,
recompose, and rebalance operations.
Disk size and drive letter for
persistent disk
If you store user profile data on a separate View
Composer
persistent disk, provide the disk size in
megabytes and the drive letter.
NOTE Do not select a drive letter that already exists
on the parent virtual machine or that conflicts with
a drive letter that is used for a network-mounted
drive.
Disposable File Redirection Choose whether to redirect the guest OS's paging
and temp files to a separate, nonpersistent disk. If
you do, provide the disk size in megabytes.
With this configuration, when a linked clone is
powered off, View Manager replaces the
disposable-file disk with a copy of the original disk
that was created with the linked-clone pool.
Linked clones can increase in size as users interact
with their desktops. Disposable file redirection can
save storage space by slowing the growth of linked
clones.
Disk size and drive letter for
disposable file disk
If you redirect disposable files to a nonpersistent
disk, provide the disk size in megabytes and the
drive letter.
The disk size should be larger than page-file size
of the guest OS. To determine the page-file size,
see “Keep a Record of the Parent Virtual Machine's
Paging-File Size,” on page 84.
When you configure the disposable file disk size,
consider that the actual size of a formatted disk
partition is slightly smaller than the value you
provide in View Administrator.
You can select a drive letter for the disposable file
disk. The default value, Auto, directs View to
assign the drive letter.
NOTE Do not select a drive letter that already exists
on the parent virtual machine or that conflicts with
a drive letter that is used for a network-mounted
drive.
Select separate datastores for
persistent and OS disks
If you redirect user profiles to separate persistent
disks, you can store the persistent disks and OS
disks on different datastores.
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