Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

Desktop Pool Settings for All Desktop Pool Types
You must specify machine and desktop pool settings when you configure automated pools that contain full
virtual machines, linked-clone desktop pools, manual desktop pools, and RDS desktop pools. Not all
settings apply to all types of desktop pools.
Table 11‑4. Desktop Pool Setting Descriptions
Setting Options
State
n
Enabled. After being created, the desktop pool is enabled and ready for immediate use.
n
Disabled. After being created, the desktop pool is disabled and unavailable for use, and
provisioning is stopped for the pool. This is an appropriate setting if you want to conduct post
deployment activities such as testing or other forms of baseline maintenance.
When this state is in effect, remote desktops are unavailable for use.
Connection Server
restrictions
n
None. The desktop pool can be accessed by any View Connection Server instance.
n
With tags. Select one or more View Connection Server tags to make the desktop pool
accessible only to View Connection Server instances that have those tags. You can use the
check boxes to select multiple tags.
If you intend to provide access to your desktops through Workspace Portal, and you configure
View Connection Server restrictions, the Workspace App Portal might display desktops to users
when those desktops are actually restricted. Workspace Portal users will be unable to launch these
desktops.
Remote machine
power policy
Determines how a virtual machine behaves when the user logs off of the associated desktop.
For descriptions of the power-policy options, see “Power Policies for Desktop Pools,” on
page 121.
For more information about how power policies affect automated pools, see “Setting Power
Policies for Desktop Pools,” on page 121.
Automatically logoff
after disconnect
n
Immediately. Users are logged off as soon as they disconnect.
n
Never. Users are never logged off.
n
After. The time after which users are logged off when they disconnect. Type the duration in
minutes.
The log off time applies to future disconnections. If a desktop session was already
disconnected when you set a log off time, the log off duration for that user starts when you set
the log off time, not when the session was originally disconnected. For example, if you set this
value to five minutes, and a session was disconnected 10 minutes earlier, View will log off
that session five minutes after you set the value.
Allow users to reset
their machines
Allow users to reset their own desktops without administrative assistance.
Allow user to
initiate separate
sessions from
different client
devices
When this setting is selected, a user connecting to the same desktop pool from different client
devices will get different desktop sessions. The user can only reconnect to an existing session from
the client device where that session was initiated. When this setting is not selected, the user will
be reconnected to his or her existing session no matter which client device is used.
Delete machine after
logoff
Select whether to delete floating-assignment, full virtual machines.
n
No. Virtual machines remain in the desktop pool after users log off.
n
Yes. Virtual machines are powered off and deleted as soon as users log off.
Delete or refresh
machine on logoff
Select whether to delete, refresh, or leave alone floating-assignment, linked-clone virtual
machines.
n
Never. Virtual machines remain in the pool and are not refreshed after users log off.
n
Delete immediately. Virtual machines are powered off and deleted as soon as users log off.
When users log off, virtual machines immediately go into a Deleting state.
n
Refresh immediately. Virtual machines are refreshed as soon as users log off. When users log
off, virtual machines immediately go into maintenance mode to prevent other users from
logging in as the refresh operation begins.
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