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Table 8‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm (Continued)
Setting Description
Fill in Your Value
Here
Transparent Page
Sharing Scope
Select the level at which to allow transparent page sharing (TPS). The
choices are Virtual Machine (the default), Farm, Pod, or Global. If
you turn on TPS for all the machines in the farm, pod, or globally, the
ESXi host eliminates redundant copies of memory pages that result if
the machines use the same guest operating system or applications.
Page sharing happens on the ESXi host. For example, if you enable
TPS at the farm level but the farm is spread across multiple ESXi
hosts, only virtual machines on the same host and within the same
farm will share pages. At the global level, all machines managed by
View on the same ESXi host can share memory pages, regardless of
which farm the machines reside in.
NOTE The default setting is not to share memory pages among
machines because TPS can pose a security risk. Research indicates that
TPS could possibly be abused to gain unauthorized access to data in
very limited configuration scenarios.
Domain Select the Active Directory domain and user name.
View Composer requires certain user privileges to farm. The domain
and user account are used by Sysprep to customize the linked-clone
machines.
You specify this user when you configure View Composer settings for
vCenter Server. You can specify multiple domains and users when
you configure View Composer settings. When you use the Add Farm
wizard to create a farm, you must select one domain and user from
the list.
For information about configuring View Composer, see the View
Administration document.
AD container Provide the Active Directory container relative distinguished name.
For example: CN=Computers
When you run the Add Farm wizard, you can browse your Active
Directory tree for the container.
Allow reuse of pre-
existing computer
accounts
Select this setting to use existing computer accounts in Active
Directory for linked clones that are provisioned by View Composer.
This setting lets you control the computer accounts that are created in
Active Directory.
When a linked clone is provisioned, if an existing AD computer
account name matches the linked clone machine name, View
Composer uses the existing computer account. Otherwise, a new
computer account is created.
The existing computer accounts must be located in the Active
Directory container that you specify with the Active Directory
container setting.
When this setting is disabled, a new AD computer account is created
when View Composer provisions a linked clone. This setting is
disabled by default.
For details, see “Use Existing Active Directory Computer Accounts for
Linked Clones,” on page 78.
Use a customization
specification (Sysprep)
Provide a Sysprep customization specification to customize the virtual
machines.
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