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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
Use vSphere mode for View
Composer
If you select a cluster that contains ESX 4 hosts
only, you can create the pool in vSphere mode.
IMPORTANT Several View Composer features are
available only in vSphere mode.
For details, see “Using vSphere Mode for View
Composer,” on page 80.
Resource pool Select the vCenter Server resource pool in which
the desktop pool resides.
Select Datastores Select one or more datastores on which to store the
desktop pool.
A table on the Select Datastores page of the Add
Pool wizard provides high-level guidelines for
estimating the pool's storage requirements. These
guidelines can help you determine which
datastores are large enough to store the linked-
clone disks. For details, see “Storage Sizing for
Linked-Clone Desktop Pools,” on page 85.
n
If you store user data and OS data on separate
disks, you can store the persistent disks and
OS disks on separate datastores.
n
You can store the replica (master) virtual
machine on a high-performance datastore and
the linked clones on separate datastores.
This feature is supported in vSphere mode
only.
For details, see “Storing View Composer
Replicas and Linked Clones on Separate
Datastores,” on page 90.
For clusters, you can use shared datastores. In
vSphere mode, you can use shared or local
datastores.
For more information about the disks that are
created for linked clones, see “Linked-Clone
Desktop Data Disks,” on page 91.
Storage Overcommit Determine the storage-overcommit level at which
View Manager creates linked-clone desktops on
each datastore.
As the level increases, more linked clones fit on the
datastore and less space is reserved to let
individual clones grow. A high storage-
overcommit level lets you create linked clones that
have a total logical size larger than the physical
storage limit of the datastore. For details, see “Set
the Storage Overcommit Level for Linked-Clone
Desktops,” on page 89.
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