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Creating Desktop Pools 5
With View Manager, you create pools of desktops that deliver View desktop access to clients. View Manager
deploys pools from desktop sources, which can be virtual machines that are managed by vCenter Server, virtual
machines that run on another virtualization platform, or physical computers, terminal servers, or blade PCs.
You can create several types of desktop pools. You can also provision an individual desktop by deploying a
manual pool with a single desktop source.
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Automated Pools That Contain Full Virtual Machines on page 72
To create an automated desktop pool, View Manager dynamically provisions desktops based on settings
that you apply to the pool. View Manager uses a virtual machine template as the desktop source for the
pool and creates a new virtual machine in vCenter Server for each desktop.
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Linked-Clone Desktop Pools on page 75
To create a linked-clone desktop pool, View Composer generates linked-clone virtual machines from a
snapshot of a parent virtual machine. View Manager dynamically provisions the linked-clone desktops
based on settings that you apply to the pool.
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Manual Desktop Pools on page 95
To create a manual desktop pool, View Manager provisions desktops from existing desktop sources. For
each desktop in the pool, you select a separate desktop source to deliver View access to clients.
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Microsoft Terminal Services Pools on page 99
You can use Microsoft Terminal Servers to provide Terminal Services sessions as desktops to View clients.
View Manager manages Terminal Services sessions in the same way that it manages other View desktops.
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Provisioning Desktop Pools on page 100
When you create a desktop pool, you select configuration options that determine how the pool is
managed and how users interact with the desktops.
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Setting Power Policies for Desktop Pools on page 109
You can configure a power policy for the virtual machines in a desktop pool if the virtual machines are
managed by vCenter Server.
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