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
Disk size and drive letter for
disposable file disk
If you redirect disposable files to a nonpersistent disk,
provide the disk size in megabytes and the drive letter.
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 51.
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.
You can select a drive letter for the disposable file disk.
The default value, Auto, directs View to assign 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.
Use vSphere Virtual SAN Specify whether to use VMware Virtual SAN, if
available. Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage
tier that virtualizes the local physical storage disks
available on a cluster of ESXi hosts. For more
information, see “Using Virtual SAN for High-
Performance Storage and Policy-Based Management,”
on page 199.
Select separate datastores for
persistent and OS disks
(Available only if you do not use Virtual SAN) If you
redirect user profiles to separate persistent disks, you
can store the persistent disks and OS disks on different
datastores.
Select separate datastores for
replica and OS disks
(Available only if you do not use Virtual SAN or
Virtual Volumes) You can store the replica (master)
virtual machine disk on a high performance datastore
and the linked clones on separate datastores.
For details, see “Storing View Composer Replicas and
Linked Clones on Separate Datastores,” on page 211.
If you store replicas and OS disks on separate
datastores, native NFS snapshots cannot be used.
Native cloning on a NAS device can only take place if
the replica and OS disks are stored on the same
datastores.
Parent VM Select the parent virtual machine for the pool.
Snapshot (default image) 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 linked clones in the
pool use the default image, and no more linked clones
will be created from this default image. The system
requires the parent virtual machine and snapshot to
provision new linked clones in the pool, according to
pool policies. The parent virtual machine and snapshot
are also required for View Composer maintenance
operations.
VM folder location Select the folder in vCenter Server in which the
desktop pool resides.
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