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Prerequisites
Familiarize yourself with the Windows hibernation feature. See the Microsoft Support Web site. For
information about disabling hibernation, see the Microsoft Support Web site and search for how to disable
and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows.
Procedure
1 In vSphere Client, select the parent virtual machine and select Open Console.
2 Log in to the Windows guest operating system as an administrator.
3 Disable the hibernation option.
a Click Start and type cmd in the Start Search box.
b In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator.
c At the User Account Control prompt, click Continue.
d At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off and press Enter.
e Type exit and press Enter.
4 Log out of the guest operating system.
When you a create linked-clone machines from the parent virtual machine, the Hiberfil.sys file is not
created on the linked-clone OS disks.
Configure a Parent Virtual Machine to Use Local Storage
When you prepare a parent virtual machine for View Composer, you can configure the parent virtual
machine and linked clones to store virtual-machine swap files on the local datastore. This optional strategy
lets you take advantage of local storage.
In this procedure, you configure local storage for the virtual-machine swap files, not the paging and temp
files in the guest OS. When you create a linked-clone pool, you also can redirect guest OS paging and temp
files to a separate disk. See “Worksheet for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool,” on page 61.
Prerequisites
Prepare the parent virtual machine to meet the requirements of the View Composer service. See “Prepare a
Parent Virtual Machine,” on page 46.
Procedure
1 Configure a swapfile datastore on the ESXi host or cluster on which you will deploy the linked-clone
pool.
2 When you create the parent virtual machine in vCenter Server, store the virtual-machine swap files on
the swapfile datastore on the local ESXi host or cluster:
a In vSphere Client, select the parent virtual machine.
b Click Edit Settings and click the Options tab.
c Click Swapfile location and click Store in the host's swapfile datastore.
For detailed instructions, see the VMware vSphere documentation.
When you deploy a pool from this parent virtual machine, the linked clones use the local ESXi host's
swapfile datastore.
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