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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 10, “Creating Application Pools,”
on page 119 or Chapter 11, “Creating RDS Desktop Pools,” on page 123.
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 Horizon 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 108.
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Take a snapshot of the parent virtual machine in vCenter Server. You must shut down the parent
virtual machine before you take the snapshot. View Composer uses the snapshot as the base image
from which the clones are created.
NOTE You cannot create a linked-clone pool from a virtual machine template.
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Gather the configuration information you must provide to create the farm. See “Worksheet for Creating
an Automated Farm,” on page 112.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click Resources > Farms.
2 Click Add to enter the configuration information that you gathered in the worksheet.
3 Select Automated 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.
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 10, “Creating Application Pools,”
on page 119 or Chapter 11, “Creating RDS Desktop Pools,” on page 123.
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