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Chapter 6 View Composer
Ifyouarecreatingapersistentpoolwheremorethanonedatastoreisavailableyou
canclickthefieldsintheUseForcolumnandspecifyhowthestoragespaceforthe
correspondingdatastoreshouldbeused.Bydefault,bothOSDataandUserData
areselectedforeachdatastore.
TheStorageOv
ercommitcolumnentrydetermineshowaggressivelythesystem
assignsnewvirtualmachinestothefreespaceavailableonadatastore.Asthelevel
increases,lessspacewillbereservedforindividualvirtualmachinegrowthbut
morevirtualmachineswillfitonthedatastore.Clicktheentrytomodifythe
aggressionlev
elforeachdatastore.
Onceyouhaveconfiguredthedatastorestoragecriteria,clickNext.
15 Inordertojoinlinkedclonedesktopstoadomain,ViewManagerrequiresdomain
administratorcredentialsforthetargetdomain.Selectthedesired
domain\administratorentryfromtheDomainAdministratorAccountdrop
downmenu.
ClickNext.
16 Youarepresente
dwithasummaryoftheconfigurationsettingsforthis
deployment.
Ifyouareunsatisfiedwithanyaspectoftheconfigurationyoucanusethe
Backbuttontorevisitanypreviouspage.
IfyouaresatisfiedwiththeconfigurationclickFinishtodeploythelinked
clonedesktoppool.
Oncethedeploymenthasbeeninitiatedyoucanmonitortheprogressofthe
provisioneddesktoppoolortheindividualdesktopsbyselectingeithertheDesktops
orDesktopSourcestabsintheDesktopspane.
Oncetheprocessisco
mpleteyoucanentitleusersorgroupstousethedesktoppoolby
carryingouttheproceduredescribedin“EntitlingaDesktoporPool”onpage 65.
N
OTEYoumustallocatesufficientspaceforboththeoperatingsystemanduser
datainordertoproceed.
NOTEThe“MinRecommended”,“Storageat50%provision”,and“Storageat
100%provision”valuesareonlyprovidedasguidelines.Theactualrequirements
forthepoolwillvarybasedonclientusagepatterns,applicationworkload,pool
type,andsoforth.