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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
Minimum number of ready
(provisioned) machines during
View Composer maintenance
operations
If you specify names manually or use a naming
pattern, specify a minimum number of machines
that are ready and provisioned while View
Composer operations take place.
This setting lets you keep machines provisioned
and ready to accept connection requests from
users while View Composer refreshes,
recomposes, or rebalances the machines in the
pool.
This value must be smaller than the Min number
of machines, which you specify if you provision
machines on demand.
See “Keeping Linked-Clone Machines
Provisioned and Ready During View Composer
Operations,” on page 75.
Provision machines on demand
or
Provision all machines up front
If you use a naming pattern, choose whether to
provision all machines when the pool is created
or provision machines as they are needed.
n
Provision all machines up front. When the
pool is created, the system provisions the
number of machines you specify in Max
number of machines.
n
Provision machines on demand. When the
pool is created, the system creates the
number of machines that you specify in Min
number of machines. Additional machines
are created as users connect to the pool for
the first time or as you assign machines to
users.
Min number of machines If you use a naming pattern and provision
desktops on demand, specify a minimum
number of machines in the pool.
The system creates the minimum number of
machines when you create the pool. This number
is maintained even when other settings such as
Delete or refresh machine on logoff cause
machines to be deleted.
Redirect Windows profile to a
persistent disk
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 virtual machine from the
detached disk. For example, when a machine 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.
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