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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
Select separate datastores for
replica and OS disks
You can store the replica (master) virtual machine
disk on a high performance datastore and the
linked clones on separate datastores.
For details, see “Storing View Composer Replicas
and Linked Clones on Separate Datastores,” on
page 113.
If you store replicas and OS disks on separate
datastores, native NFS snapshots cannot be used.
Native cloning on a NAS device can only take
place if the replica and OS disks are stored on the
same datastores.
Parent virtual machine Select the parent virtual machine for the pool.
To use features that are supported in View
Manager 4.5 or later, such as redirecting
disposable
data to a separate disk and customizing
the linked clones with Sysprep, you must select a
parent virtual machine on which View Agent 4.5
or later is installed.
NOTE You cannot use View Composer to deploy
desktops that run Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
or Windows XP Professional SP1.
Default image (snapshot) Select the snapshot of the parent virtual machine
to use as the base image for the pool.
Do not delete the snapshot and parent virtual
machine from vCenter Server, unless no linked
clones in the pool use the default image, and no
more linked clones will be created from this
default image. View Manager requires the parent
virtual machine and snapshot to provision new
linked clones in the pool, according to pool
policies. The parent virtual machine and snapshot
are also required for View Composer maintenance
operations.
Publish base image to the Transfer
Server repository.
Select this option if you use the pool to provision
local desktops. When a local desktop is
provisioned, View Transfer Server downloads the
base image from the Transfer Server repository to
the client.
You can also publish the base image after you
create the pool.
vCenter Server folder Select the folder in vCenter Server in which the
desktop pool resides.
Host or cluster Select the ESX host or cluster on which the desktop
virtual machines run.
In vSphere 5.1 or later, you can select a cluster with
up to 32 ESXi hosts if the replicas are stored on
VMFS5 or later datastores or NFS datastores. If
you store replicas on a VMFS version earlier than
VMFS5, a cluster can have at most eight hosts.
In vSphere 5.0, you can select a cluster with more
than eight ESXi hosts if the replicas are stored on
NFS datastores. If you store replicas on VMFS
datastores, a cluster can have at most eight hosts.
See “Configuring Pools on Clusters With More
Than Eight Hosts,” on page 147.
Resource pool Select the vCenter Server resource pool in which
the desktop pool resides.
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