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On Windows 7 virtual machines, this file can be 10GB.
C When you make hibernation unavailable, the hybrid sleep setting does not work. Users can lose data
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if the hybrid sleep setting is turned on and a power loss occurs.
Prerequisites
Familiarize yourself with the Windows hibernation feature. See the Microsoft Support Web site. For
information about disabling hibernation on Windows 7 or Windows Vista, see the Microsoft Support Web site
and search for how to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows.
Procedure
1 In vSphere Client, select the parent virtual machine and select Open Console.
2 Log in to the Windows guest operating system as an administrator.
3 Disable the hibernation option.
Operating System
Windows 7 or Windows Vista
Windows XP
4 Log out of the guest operating system.
When you create linked clone desktops from the parent virtual machine, the
on the linked-clone OS disks.
Configure a Parent Virtual Machine to Use Local Storage
When you prepare a parent virtual machine for View Composer, you can configure the parent virtual machine
and linked-clone desktops to store virtual-machine swap files on the local datastore. This optional strategy lets
you take advantage of local storage.
In this procedure, you configure local storage for the virtual-machine swap files, not the paging and temp files
in the guest OS. When you create a linked-clone pool, you also can redirect guest OS paging and temp files to
a separate disk. See
Prerequisites
Prepare the parent virtual machine to meet the requirements of the View Composer service. See
Parent Virtual Machine,"
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Action
a Click Start and type cmd in the Start Search box.
b In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt and click Run as
Administrator.
c At the User Account Control prompt, click Continue.
d At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off and
press Enter.
e Type exit and press Enter.
a Click Start > Run.
b Type cmd and click OK.
c At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off and
press Enter.
d Type exit and press Enter.
"Worksheet for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool,"
on page 63.
Chapter 4 Creating and Preparing Virtual Machines
file is not created
Hiberfil.sys
on page 73.
"Prepare a
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