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Table 5-3. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued)
Option
Use vSphere mode for View
Composer
Resource pool
Select Datastores
Storage Overcommit
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Description
If you select a cluster that contains ESX 4 hosts
only, you can create the pool in vSphere mode.
I Several View Composer features are
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available only in vSphere mode.
For details, see "Using vSphere Mode for View
Composer," on page 80.
Select the vCenter Server resource pool in which
the desktop pool resides.
Select one or more datastores on which to store the
desktop pool.
A table on the Select Datastores page of the Add
Pool wizard provides high-level guidelines for
estimating the pool's storage requirements. These
guidelines can help you determine which
datastores are large enough to store the linked-
clone disks. For details, see "Storage Sizing for
Linked-Clone Desktop Pools,"
If you store user data and OS data on separate
n
disks, you can store the persistent disks and
OS disks on separate datastores.
You can store the replica (master) virtual
n
machine on a high-performance datastore and
the linked clones on separate datastores.
This feature is supported in vSphere mode
only.
For details, see "Storing View Composer
Replicas and Linked Clones on Separate
Datastores," on page 90.
For clusters, you can use shared datastores. In
vSphere mode, you can use shared or local
datastores.
For more information about the disks that are
created for linked clones, see
Desktop Data Disks," on page 91.
Determine the storage-overcommit level at which
View Manager creates linked-clone desktops on
each datastore.
As the level increases, more linked clones fit on the
datastore and less space is reserved to let
individual clones grow. A high storage-
overcommit level lets you create linked clones that
have a total logical size larger than the physical
storage limit of the datastore. For details, see
the Storage Overcommit Level for Linked-Clone
Desktops," on page 89.
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