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8 SelecttheParentVMtobeusedasthebaseimageforthedeployment.Youareonly

bepresentedwithvirtualmachinesthatcontainoneormoresnapshotsthatwere

takenwhenthevirtualmachinewaspowereddown.ClickNext.

9 SelectthesnapshotyoupreviouslycreatedontheParentVMwhileinit

sinactive

stateandclickNext.

10 Selectwhereyouwantthefolderforthisdesktoppooltoresidewithin

VirtualCenterandclickNext.

11 Selectahostoraclusteronwhichtorunthevirtualmachinesusedbythisdesktop

andclickNext.

12 Selectaresourcepoolinwhichtorunthevi

rtualmachinesusedbythisdesktop

andclickNext.

13 (Optional)Thisstepappliestopersistentpoolsonlyanddetermineshowuserdata

shouldbestoredbydesktopswithinthispool.

 Ifyouwantuserdatatobepreservedafterarefreshorrecompositionevent

selectRedirectuserprofiletoaseparatedisk,andspecifythemaximumsize

oftheuserdatadiskandassociateddriveletter.

 Ifyoudonotwantuserdatatobepreservedafterarefresh,recomposition,or

rebalanceeventselectStoreuserprofileonthesamediskastheOS.User

datawillberetaineduntileitheroftheseeventsareperformedbythe

administratororexecutedautomaticallybypolicy.

Onceyouhaveco

nfiguredtheuserdatastoragecriteria,clickNext.

14 Selectoneormoredatastoresonwhichtostorethedesktoppool.Ifyoudonot

havesufficientspaceavailable,youmustaddfreespacebyselectinganadditional

datastore.

OTEOnlyclustersof8hostsorfeweraresupportedandshown.

CAUTIONDonotselectaletterthatcorrespondstoadrivethatisalready

presentontheParentVM.

NOTEForclusters,onlyshareddatastoresaresupported;everyhostinthecluster

mustbeconnectedtothedatastoretobeshown.