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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
Datastores Select one or more datastores on which to store
the desktop pool.
A table on the Select Linked Clone Datastores
page of the Add Desktop Pool wizard provides
high-level guidelines for estimating the pool's
storage requirements. These guidelines can help
you determine which datastores are large
enough to store the linked-clone disks. For
details, see “Storage Sizing for Linked-Clone
Desktop Pools,” on page 186.
You can use shared or local datastores for an
individual ESXi host or for ESXi clusters. If you
use local datastores in an ESXi cluster, you must
consider the vSphere infrastructure constraints
that are imposed on your desktop deployment.
See “Storing Linked Clones on Local Datastores,”
on page 193.
In vSphere 5.1 or later, a cluster can have more
than eight ESXi hosts if the replicas are stored on
datastores that are VMFS5 or later or NFS. In
vSphere 5.0, a cluster can have more than eight
ESXi hosts only if the replicas are stored on NFS
datastores. See “Configuring Desktop Pools on
Clusters With More Than Eight Hosts,” on
page 125.
For more information about the disks that are
created for linked clones, see “Linked-Clone Data
Disks,” on page 192.
NOTE If you use Virtual SAN, select only one
datastore.
Storage Overcommit Determine the storage-overcommit level at
which linked-clones are created on each
datastore.
As the level increases, more linked clones fit on
the datastore and less space is reserved to let
individual clones grow. A high storage-
overcommit level lets you create linked clones
that have a total logical size larger than the
physical storage limit of the datastore. For
details, see “Set the Storage Overcommit Level
for Linked-Clone Virtual Machines,” on
page 191.
NOTE This setting has no effect if you use
Virtual SAN.
Use View Storage Accelerator Determine whether to use View Storage
Accelerator, which allows ESXi hosts to cache
common virtual machine disk data. View Storage
Accelerator can improve performance and
reduce the need for extra storage I/O bandwidth
to manage boot storms and anti-virus scanning
I/O storms.
This feature is supported on vSphere 5.0 and
later.
This feature is enabled by default.
For details, see “Configure View Storage
Accelerator for Desktop Pools,” on page 195.
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