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Chapter 6 View Composer
Figure 6-2. Desktop Recomposition
Replica2isanexactcopyofParentVM2.Whentherecompositionactioniscomplete
thedesktopwillbeanchoredtoreplica2andtheoperatingsystemdatamodified
accordingly.Theoperatingsystemdataofarecomposeddesktopisreducedinsizeafter
recomposition,howevertheuserdataisunaffectedbythisev
ent.
Source Virtual Machine
Recompositionisexpeditedthroughtheuseofanadditionalprotectedlinkedclone
desktopinVirtualCenter—calledasourcevirtualmachine—thatiscreatedalongside
thereplicawhenalinkedclonedesktoppoolisfirstdeployed.
Whenarecompositioneventtakesplace,thesourcevirtualmachineisthefirstdesktop
toberecomposedagainstanewsnapshot.Vi
ewComposerremovestheexistinglinked
clonedesktoppoolfromVirtualCenterandthencopiesthesourcevirtualmachineas
manytimesasnecessaryinordertoreplaceit.
Thismethodofpoolgenerationoptimizestherecompositionprocessandistypically
muchfasterthanindividuallyrecomposingeachlinkedcl
onedesktopinthepool.
N
OTEThesourcevirtualmachineislocatedwiththereplicainsideafoldercalled
VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolderinVirtualCenter.
base image + snapshot
bloated
OS data disk
refreshed
OS data disk
user data disk
user data disk
replica 2—
new base image
after recomposition
replica 1
parent VM 1
base image + snapshot
parent VM 2
recompose