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Table 9‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm (Continued)
Setting Description
Fill in Your Value
Here
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 76.
Use a customization
specification (Sysprep)
Provide a Sysprep customization specification to customize the virtual
machines.
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 8, “Setting Up Remote Desktop Services
Hosts,” on page 95.
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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 111.
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.
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