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Table 5-3. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool
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Option
Description Fill In Your Value Here
Maximum number of desktops If you use a naming pattern, specify the total
number of desktops in the pool.
You can also specify a minimum number of
desktops to provision when you first create the
pool.
Number of spare (powered on)
desktops
If you specify names manually or use a naming
pattern, specify a number of desktops that View
Manager keeps available and powered on for new
users. For details, see “Naming Desktops
Manually or Providing a Naming Pattern,” on
page 99.
When you specify names manually, this option is
called # Unassigned desktops kept powered on.
Minimum number of desktops If you use a naming pattern and provision
desktops on demand, specify a minimum number
of desktops in the pool.
If you provision desktops on demand, View
Manager creates desktops as users connect to the
pool for the first time.
View Manager creates the minimum number of
desktops when you create the pool.
Parent virtual machine Select the parent virtual machine for the pool.
To use View Manager 4.5 features such as
redirecting disposable data to a separate disk and
customizing the linked clones with Sysprep, you
must select a parent virtual machine on which
View Agent 4.5 is installed.
NOTE You cannot use View Composer to deploy
desktops that run Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
or Windows XP Professional SP1.
Default image (snapshot) Select the snapshot of the parent virtual machine
to use as the base image for the pool.
Do not delete the snapshot and parent virtual
machine from vCenter Server, unless no more
linked clones will be created from this default
image. View Manager requires the parent virtual
machine and snapshot to provision new linked
clones in the pool, according to pool policies.
Publish base image to the Transfer
Server repository.
Select this option if you use the pool to provision
local desktops. When a local desktop is
provisioned, View Transfer Server downloads the
base image from the Transfer Server repository to
the client.
You can also publish the base image after you
create the pool.
vCenter Server folder Select the folder in vCenter Server in which the
desktop pool resides.
Host or cluster Select the ESX host or cluster on which the desktop
virtual machines run.
You can deploy a linked-clone pool on a cluster
that contains ESX/ESXi 4 hosts mixed with ESX/
ESXi 3 hosts if you do not set vSphere mode.
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