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Create a Manual Farm
You create a manual farm as part of the process to give users access to applications or RDS desktops.
Prerequisites
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Set up the RDS hosts that belong to the farm. See Chapter 7, “Setting Up Remote Desktop Services
Hosts,” on page 87.
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Verify that all the RDS hosts have the Available status. In View Administrator, select View
Configuration > Registered Machines and check the status of each RDS host on the RDS Hosts tab.
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Gather the configuration information you must provide to create the farm. See “Worksheet for Creating
a Manual Farm,” on page 103.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click Resources > Farms.
2 Click Add to enter the configuration information that you gathered in the worksheet.
3 Select Manual Farm.
4 Follow the prompts in the wizard to create the farm.
Use the configuration information that you gathered in the worksheet. You can go directly back to any
wizard page that you completed by clicking the page name in the navigation panel.
5 Select the RDS hosts to add to the farm and click Next.
6 Click Finish.
In View Administrator, you can now view the farm by clicking Resources > Farms.
What to do next
Create an application pool or an RDS desktop pool. See Chapter 9, “Creating Application Pools,”
on page 111 or Chapter 10, “Creating RDS Desktop Pools,” on page 115.
Create an Automated Farm
You create an automated farm as part of the process to give users access to applications or RDS desktops.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the View Composer service is installed. See the View Installation document.
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Verify that View Composer settings for vCenter Server are configured in View Administrator. See the
View Administration document.
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Verify that you have a sufficient number of ports on the ESXi virtual switch that is used for the virtual
machines that are used as remote desktops. The default value might not be sufficient if you create large
desktop pools. The number of virtual switch ports on the ESXI host must equal or exceed the number of
virtual machines multiplied by the number of virtual NICs per virtual machine.
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Verify that you prepared a parent virtual machine. Both View Agent and View Composer Agent must
be installed on the parent virtual machine. See “Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for an Automated
Farm,” on page 100.
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