Managing Desktops And Desktop Pools; Managing Desktop Pools - VMware View Manager 4.5 Admin Manual

Managing Desktops and Desktop
Pools
In View Administrator, you can manage desktop pools, virtual-machine desktops, and desktop sessions.
This chapter includes the following topics:

"Managing Desktop Pools,"

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"Reducing Adobe Flash Bandwidth,"
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"Managing Virtual-Machine Desktops,"
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"Export View Information to External Files,"
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Managing Desktop Pools
You can edit, disable, and delete desktop pools in View Administrator.
Edit a Desktop Pool
You can edit an existing desktop pool to configure settings such as pool settings, number of spare desktops,
datastores, and customization specifications.
Prerequisites
Familiarize yourself with the pool settings that you can and cannot change after a pool is created. See
"Modifying Settings in an Existing Desktop Pool,"
Pool," on page 176.
Procedure
1 Click Inventory > Pools.
2 Select a pool.
3 Click Edit.
4 Click a tab in the Edit pool_name dialog and reconfigure pool options.
5 Click OK.
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