VMware View Manager 4.5 Admin Manual page 79

Prerequisites
Verify that the View Composer service is installed in vCenter Server and a View Composer database is
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configured. See the VMware View Installation Guide.
Verify that View Composer settings for vCenter Server are configured in View Administrator. See
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"Configure View Composer Settings for vCenter Server,"
Verify that you prepared a parent virtual machine. View Agent must be installed on the parent virtual
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machine. See
Take a snapshot of the parent virtual machine in vCenter Server. You must shut down the parent virtual
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machine before you take the snapshot. View Composer uses the snapshot as the base image from which
the clones are created.
N You cannot create a linked-clone pool from a virtual machine template.
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Gather the configuration information you must provide to create the pool. See
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a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool,"
Decide how to configure power settings, display protocol, Adobe Flash quality, and other settings. See
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"Desktop and Pool Settings,"
I While a linked-clone pool is created, do not modify the parent virtual machine in vCenter Server.
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For example, do not convert the parent virtual machine to a template. The View Composer service requires
that the parent virtual machine remain in a static, unaltered state during pool creation.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click Inventory > Pools.
2 Click Add.
3 Select Automated Pool.
4 On the vCenter Server page, choose View Composer linked clones.
5 Follow the prompts in the wizard to create the pool.
Use the configuration information you gathered in the worksheet. You can go directly back to any wizard
page you completed by clicking the page name in the navigation panel.
On the vCenter Settings page, you must click Browse and select the vCenter Server settings in sequence.
You cannot skip a vCenter Server setting:
a Default image
b Virtual machine folder
c Host or cluster
d Resource pool
e Datastores
In View Administrator, you can view the desktops as they are added to the pool by clicking Inventory >
Desktops.
The linked clones might restart one or more times while they are provisioned.
View Composer also creates a replica virtual machine that serves as the master image for provisioning the
linked clones. To reduce space consumption, the replica is created as a thin disk. If all the desktops are
recomposed or deleted, and no clones are linked to the replica, the replica virtual machine is deleted from
vCenter Server.
VMware, Inc.
Chapter 4, "Creating and Preparing Virtual Machines,"
on page 73.
on page 104.
Chapter 5 Creating Desktop Pools
on page 14.
on page 43.
"Worksheet for Creating
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