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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
Pool Settings Settings that determine the desktop state, power
status when a virtual machine is not in use, display
protocol, Adobe Flash quality, and so on.
For descriptions, see “Desktop and Pool
Settings,” on page 106.
For a list of the settings that apply to linked-clone
pools, see “Desktop Settings for Linked-Clone
Desktop Pools,” on page 82.
For more information about power policies and
automated pools, see “Setting Power Policies for
Desktop Pools,” on page 110.
Redirect Windows profile to
persistent disks
If you select dedicated user assignments, choose
whether to store Windows user-profile data on a
separate View Composer persistent disk or the
same disk as the OS data.
Separate persistent disks let you preserve user
data and settings. View Composer refresh,
recompose, and rebalance operations do not affect
persistent disks. You can detach a persistent disk
from a linked clone and attach it to another
desktop.
If you store the Windows profile in the OS disk,
user data and settings are removed during refresh,
recompose, and rebalance operations.
Disk size and drive letter for
persistent disk
If you store user profile data on a separate View
Composer persistent disk, provide the disk size in
megabytes and the drive letter.
NOTE Do not select a drive letter that already exists
on the parent virtual machine or that conflicts with
a drive letter that is used for a network-mounted
drive.
Disposable File Redirection Choose whether to redirect the guest OS's paging
and temp files to a separate, nonpersistent disk. If
you do, provide the disk size in megabytes.
With this configuration, when a linked clone is
powered off, View Manager replaces the
disposable-file disk with a copy of the original disk
that was created with the linked-clone pool.
Linked clones can increase in size as users interact
with their desktops. Disposable file redirection can
save storage space by slowing the growth of linked
clones.
The disk size should be larger than page-file size
of the guest OS. To determine the page-file size,
see “Keep a Record of the Parent Virtual Machine's
Paging-File Size,” on page 68.
When you configure the disposable-file disk size,
consider that the actual size of a formatted disk
partition is slightly smaller than the value you
provide in View Administrator.
Virtual machine naming Choose whether to provision desktops by
manually specifying a list of desktop names or by
providing a naming pattern and the total number
of desktops.
For details, see “Naming Desktops Manually or
Providing a Naming Pattern,” on page 100.
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