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Table 6‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued)
Option Description Fill In Your Value Here
Number of spare (powered
on) machines
Specify the number of machines to keep available for users.
For details, see “Naming Machines Manually or Providing a
Naming Pattern,” on page 128.
Provision machines on
demand
Min number of machines
Provision all machines up
front
Specify whether to provision all machines when the pool is
created or provision machines as they are needed.
n
Provision all machines up front. When the pool is
created, the system provisions the number of machines
you specify in Max number of machines.
n
Provision machines on demand. When the pool is
created, the system creates the number of machines based
on the Min number of machines value or the Number of
spare (powered on) machines value, whichever is higher.
Additional machines are created to maintain this
minimum number of available machines as users connect
to desktops.
Select separate datastores for
replica and OS disks
You can store the replica (master) virtual machine disk on a
high performance datastore and the instant clones on separate
datastores.
For details, see “Storing Replicas and Clones on Separate
Datastores for Instant Clones and View Composer Linked
Clones,” on page 249.
Parent VM Select the parent virtual machine for the pool.
Snapshot (default image) Select the snapshot of the parent virtual machine to use as the
base image for the pool.
Do not delete the snapshot and parent virtual machine from
vCenter Server as long as the pool exists.
VM folder location Select the folder in vCenter Server in which the desktop pool
resides.
Cluster Select the vCenter Server cluster on which the desktop virtual
machines run. You can not specify an ESXi host.
Resource pool Select the vCenter Server resource pool in which the desktop
pool resides.
Datastores Select one or more datastores on which to store the desktop
pool.
A table on the Select Instant Clone Datastores page of the Add
Desktop Pool wizard provides high-level guidelines for
estimating the pool's storage requirements. These guidelines
can help you determine which datastores are large enough to
store the clones. The Storage Overcommit parameter is always
set to Unbounded and is not configurable.
Domain Select a Active Directory domain. The drop-down list shows
the domains that are added when you configure instant clone
domain administrators. See “Add an Instant Clone Domain
Administrator,” on page 81
AD container Provide the Active Directory container relative distinguished
name.
For example: CN=Computers
When you run the Add Desktop Pool wizard, you can browse
your Active Directory tree for the container.
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