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Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued)
Option Description Fill In Your Value Here
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, the disposable-file disk is replaced
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 48.
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.
Use vSphere Virtual SAN Specify whether to use VMware Virtual SAN, if
available. Virtual SAN is a software-defined
storage tier that virtualizes the local physical
storage disks available on a cluster of ESXi hosts.
For more information, see “Using Virtual SAN
for High-Performance Storage and Policy-Based
Management,” on page 170.
Select separate datastores for
persistent and OS disks
(Available only if you do not use Virtual SAN) 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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