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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
Power-off script Specify a script to run on the machines before they are
powered off.
Provide the path to the script on the parent virtual machine
and the script parameters.
Post-synchronization script Specify a script to run on the machines after they are created.
Provide the path to the script on the parent virtual machine
and the script parameters.
Create an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool
The Horizon Administrator's Add Desktop Pool wizards guides you through the steps of creating an
instant-clone desktop pool.
Prerequisites
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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. Horizon Agent must be installed on the parent
virtual machine. See Chapter 3, “Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning,” on
page 19.
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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. Horizon 7 uses the snapshot as the base image to create
the clones.
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Gather the configuration information for the pool. See “Worksheet for Creating an Instant-Clone
Desktop Pool,” on page 81.
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Verify that you added an instant clone domain administrator in View Administrator.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools.
2 Click Add.
3 Select Automated Desktop Pool.
4 On the vCenter Server page, choose Instant clones.
5 Follow the prompts in the wizard to create the pool.
Use the configuration information you gathered in the worksheet. You can go directly back to any
wizard page you completed by clicking the page name in the navigation panel.
In Horizon Administrator, you can view the machines as they are added to the pool by selecting Catalog >
Desktop Pools.
After you create the pool, do not delete the parent VM or remove it from vCenter Server's inventory as long
as the pool exists because various pool operations need this VM to be present. If you remove the VM from
vCenter Server's inventory by mistake, you must add it back and then do a push image using the same
image that the pool currently has.
What to do next
Entitle users to access the pool. See “Add Entitlements to a Desktop or Application Pool,” on page 159.
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