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Decide whether to force all users to log off as soon as the recomposition begins or wait for each user to
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log off before recomposing that user's desktop.
If you force users to log off, View Manager notifies users before they are disconnected and allows them
to close their applications and log off.
Verify that provisioning for the pool is enabled. When pool provisioning is disabled, View Manager stops
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the desktops from being customized after they are recomposed.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click Inventory > Pools.
2 Select the pool to recompose by double-clicking the pool ID in the left column.
3 Choose whether to recompose the whole pool or selected desktops.
Option
To recompose all desktops in the
pool
To recompose selected desktops
4 Click View Composer > Recompose.
5 Follow the wizard instructions to recompose the linked-clone desktops.
If you recompose the whole pool from the Settings tab, you can check the Change the default image for
new desktops box. With this setting, new desktops that are created in the pool use the updated base image.
This setting is checked by default.
On the Ready to Complete page, you can click Show Details to display the linked-clone desktops that will
be recomposed.
The linked-clone desktops are refreshed and updated. The OS disks are reduced to their original size.
In a dedicated-assignment pool, unassigned linked clones are deleted and recreated. The specified number of
spare desktops is maintained.
In a floating-assignment pool, all selected linked clones are recomposed.
In vCenter Server, you can monitor the progress of the recomposition on the linked-clone virtual machines.
In View Administrator, you can monitor the operation by clicking Inventory > Pools, selecting the pool ID,
and clicking the Tasks tab. You can click Cancel Task, Pause Task, or Resume Task to terminate a task, suspend
a task, or resume a suspended task.
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desktop pool, new SIDs might be generated for the recomposed virtual machines. For details, see
"Recomposing Linked Clones Customized with Sysprep,"
VMware, Inc.
Action
On the selected pool's page, click the Settings tab.
a On the selected pool's page, click the Inventory tab.
b Select the desktops to recompose.
on page 85.
Chapter 9 Managing Linked-Clone Desktops
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