Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued)
Option Description Fill In Your Value Here
Stop provisioning on error You can direct View to stop provisioning or continue
to provision virtual machines in a desktop pool after
an error occurs during the provisioning of a virtual
machine. If you leave this setting selected, you can
prevent a provisioning error from recurring on
multiple virtual machines.
Virtual machine naming Choose whether to provision machines by manually
specifying a list of machine names or by providing a
naming pattern and the total number of machines.
For details, see “Naming Machines Manually or
Providing a Naming Pattern,” on page 110.
Specify names manually If you specify names manually, prepare a list of
machine names and, optionally, the associated user
names.
Naming pattern If you use this naming method, provide the pattern.
The pattern you specify is used as a prefix in all the
machine names, followed by a unique number to
identify each machine.
For details, see “Using a Naming Pattern for
Automated Desktop Pools,” on page 112.
Max number of machines If you use a naming pattern, specify the total number
of machines in the pool.
You can also specify a minimum number of machines
to provision when you first create the pool.
Number of spare (powered
on) machines
If you specify names manually or use a naming
pattern, specify a number of machines to keep
available and powered on for new users. For details,
see “Naming Machines Manually or Providing a
Naming Pattern,” on page 110.
When you specify names manually, this option is
called # Unassigned machines kept powered on.
Minimum number of ready
(provisioned) machines
during View Composer
maintenance operations
If you specify names manually or use a naming
pattern, specify a minimum number of machines that
are ready and provisioned while View Composer
operations take place.
This setting lets you keep machines provisioned and
ready to accept connection requests from users while
View Composer refreshes, recomposes, or rebalances
the machines in the pool.
This value must be smaller than the Min number of
machines, which you specify if you provision
machines on demand.
See “Keeping Linked-Clone Machines Provisioned and
Ready During View Composer Operations,” on
page 78.
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