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Table 5-3. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued)
Option Description Fill In Your Value Here
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.
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 83.
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 88.
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If you store user data and OS data on separate
disks, you can store the persistent disks and
OS disks on separate datastores.
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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 93.
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 94.
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