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If you intend to provide access to your desktops and applications through VMware Identity Manager,
verify that you create the desktop and application pools as a user who has the Administrators role on
the root access group in View Administrator. If you give the user the Administrators role on an access
group other than the root access group, VMware Identity Manager will not recognize the SAML
authenticator you configure in View, and you cannot configure the pool in VMware Identity Manager.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools.
2 Click Add.
3 Select Automated Desktop Pool.
4 On the vCenter Server page, choose Full virtual machines.
5 Follow the prompts in the wizard to create the pool.
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 view the machines as they are added to the pool by selecting Catalog >
Desktop Pools.
What to do next
Entitle users to access the pool. See “Add Entitlements to a Desktop or Application Pool,” on page 159.
Clone an Automated Desktop Pool
You can clone an automated desktop pool from an existing pool. When you clone a pool, the existing
desktop pool's settings are copied into the Add Desktop Pool wizard, allowing you to create a new pool
without having to fill in each setting manually.
With this feature, you can streamline pool creation because you do not have to type every option in the Add
Desktop Pool wizard. You can ensure that desktop pool attributes are standardized by using the pre-filled
values in the wizard.
You can clone automated desktop pools that contain full virtual machines or View Composer linked clones.
You cannot clone automated desktop pools of instant clones, manual desktop pools, or RDS desktop pools.
When you clone a desktop pool, you cannot change certain settings:
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Desktop pool type
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Clone type, either linked clone or full virtual machine
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User assignment, either dedicated or floating
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vCenter Server instance
Prerequisites
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Verify that the prerequisites for creating the original desktop pool are still valid.
For example, for a pool that contains full virtual machines, verify that a virtual machine template was
prepared.
For a linked-clone pool, verify that a parent virtual machine was prepared and a snapshot was taken
after the virtual machine was powered off.
When you clone a pool, you can use the same virtual machine template or parent virtual machine, or
you can select another one.
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