3.1
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Device Information
- Enabling HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing VirtualCenter for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- locked.properties
- Glossary
- Index
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Therebalancefeatureoffersadministratorsagracefulmechanismforintroducing
additionalstoragetoadatastoreinordertopreventthelatteroutcome.Inaddition,
priortoexecutingtherebalanceactionyoumayalsoretireoldstorageandmake
resourcepoolalterations,andhostchanges.
OnlydesktopsintheReady,Error,or
Customizingstatewithnoschedulesorpending
cancellationscanberebalanced.Inaddition,youcannotrebalancetheloadbetweenthe
localstoragesystemsonmultiplestandaloneESXservers.
Itisrecommendedtokeeplinkedclonedesktopvirtualmachinesonadatastorewith
noothertypeofvirtualmachinesothatthe
rebalanceactionisappliedtoallthevirtual
machines.
Persistent and Non-Persistent Desktops
Bothpersistentandnon‐persistentdesktopconfigurationsaresupportedbyView
Composer.Inpersistentconfigurations,dedicateddisks—asystemdiskforoperating
systemdataandauserdiskforuserdata—canbeusedtokeeptheoperatingsystem
anduserdataseparate.Thisensuresthateveniftheoperatingsystemisrecomposed
or
refreshedtheuserdataremainsunaffected.
Innon‐persistentconfigurationstheuserdataistransientsotheoperatingsystemdata
anduserdataarestoredonthesystemdisk.Inthisconfigurationuserdataisnot
protectedifthesystemisrecomposedorrefreshed.
Using QuickPrep for Linked Clone Desktop Deployment
QuickPrepisasystemtoolexecutedbyViewComposerduringlinkedclonedesktop
deployment.QuickPreppersonalizeseachdesktopcreatedfromtheParentVM.
N
OTEInordertorebalancethedesktopsitisnecessaryforViewManagerto
automaticallyrefreshtheiroperatingsystemsagainsttheircurrentbaseimageand
returnthesystemdatatoitsbaselinestate—userdataisunaffectedifitresidesona
separateuserdatadisk.
NOTEPersistentdesktopscanbesettorefreshautomaticallywhentheuserlogsoff.
Thiscanhelpminimizethespacerequirementsofthepool.Similarly,non‐persistent
poolscanbesettodeleteafterfirstuse,whichreducesthenumberofinactivedesktops
inthepooloverall.