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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
List of desktop names If you specify names manually, prepare a text file
that lists desktop names and, optionally, the
associated user names.
Naming pattern If you use this naming method, provide the
pattern.
View Manager uses your pattern as a prefix in all
the desktop names and appends a unique number
to identify each desktop.
For details, see “Using a Naming Pattern for
Automated Desktop Pools,” on page 102.
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 100.
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 features that are supported in View
Manager 4.5 or later, 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
or later 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.
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