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Table 5-3. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued)
Option
Redirect Windows profile to
persistent disks
Disk size and drive letter for
persistent disk
Disposable File Redirection
Virtual machine naming
List of desktop names
Naming pattern
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Description
If you select dedicated user assignments, choose
whether to store Windows user-profile data on a
separate View Composer persistent disk or the
same disk as the OS data.
Separate persistent disks let you preserve user
data and settings. View Composer refresh,
recompose, and rebalance operations do not affect
persistent disks. You can detach a persistent disk
from a linked clone and attach it to another
desktop.
If you store the Windows profile in the OS disk,
user data and settings are removed during refresh,
recompose, and rebalance operations.
If you store user profile data on a separate View
Composer persistent disk, provide the disk size in
megabytes and the drive letter.
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on the parent virtual machine or that conflicts with
a drive letter that is used for a network-mounted
drive.
Choose whether to redirect the guest OS's paging
and temp files to a separate, nonpersistent disk. If
you do, provide the disk size in megabytes.
With this configuration, View Manager deletes the
disposable files when a linked clone is powered
off. Linked clones can increase in size as users
interact with their desktops. Disposable file
redirection can save storage space by slowing the
growth of linked clones.
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 66.
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.
Disposable file redirection is supported in vSphere
mode only.
Choose whether to provision desktops by
manually specifying a list of desktop names or by
providing a naming pattern and the total number
of desktops.
For details, see "Naming Desktops Manually or
Providing a Naming Pattern,"
If you specify names manually, prepare a text file
that lists desktop names and, optionally, the
associated user names.
If you use this naming method, provide the
pattern.
View Manager uses your pattern as a prefix in all
the desktop names and appends a unique number
to identify each desktop.
For details, see "Using a Naming Pattern for
Automated Desktop Pools," on page 101.
Chapter 5 Creating Desktop Pools
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