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Table 9‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm (Continued)
Setting Description
Fill in Your Value
Here
Log off disconnected
session
Determines when a disconnected session is logged off. This setting
applies to both desktop and application sessions. Select Never,
Immediate, or After ... minutes. Use caution when you select
Immediate or After ... minutes. When a disconnected session is
logged off, the session is lost. The default is Never.
Allow HTML Access to
desktops and
applications on this
farm
Determines whether HTML Access to RDS desktops and applications
is allowed. Check the Enabled box to allow HTML Access to RDS
desktops and applications. When you edit this setting after a farm is
created, the new value applies to existing desktops and applications
as well as new ones.
Max sessions per RDS
server
Determines the maximum number of sessions that an RDS host can
support. Select Unlimited or No More Than .... The default is
Unlimited.
Enable provisioning Select this checkbox to enable provisioning after you finish this
wizard. This box is checked by default.
Stop provisioning on
error
Select this checkbox to stop provisioning when a provisioning error
occurs. This box is checked by default.
Naming pattern Specify a prefix or a name format. View will append or insert an
automatically generated number starting with 1 to form the machine
name. If you want the number at the end, simply specify a prefix.
Otherwise, specify {n} anywhere in a character string and {n} will be
replaced by the number. You can also specify {n:fixed=<number of
digits>}, where fixed=<number of digits> indicates the number of
digits to be used for the number. For example, specify vm-{n:fixed=3}-
sales and the machine names will be vm-001-sales, vm-002-sales, and
so on.
NOTE Each machine name, including the automatically generated
number, has a 15-character limit.
Max number of
machines
The number of machines to be provisioned.
Minimum number of
ready (provisioned)
machines during View
Composer maintenance
operations
This setting lets you keep the specified number of machines available
to accept connection requests while View Composer recomposes the
machines in the farm.
Use vSphere Virtual
SAN
Specify whether to use VMware Virtual SAN, if available. Virtual
SAN is a software-defined storage tier that virtualizes the local
physical storage disks available on a cluster of ESXi hosts. For more
information, see “Using Virtual SAN for High-Performance Storage
and Policy-Based Management,” on page 235
Select separate
datastores for replica
and OS disks
(Available only if you do not use Virtual SAN) You can place replica
and OS disks on different datastores for performance or other reasons.
Parent VM Select a parent virtual machine from the list. Be aware that the list
includes virtual machines that do not have View Composer Agent
installed. You must not select any of those machines because View
Composer Agent is required. A good practice is to use a naming
convention that indicates whether a virtual machine has View
Composer Agent installed.
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