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12 SelectthefolderwhereyouwantthisdesktoppooltoresidewithinvCenterandclickNext.

13 SelectahostoraclusteronwhichtorunthevirtualmachinesusedbythisdesktopandclickNext.

TheUsevSpheremodeforViewComposercheckboxbecomesavailableifyouselectaclusterthat

containsESX/ESXi4hostsonly.ThenewvSpheremodeismorereliablethaninpreviousreleasesand

supportsup‐to‐datehardwareconfigurations,butvSphere4requires64‐bit(x86_64)hardware.Ifyou

plantohaveESX/ESXi3.5hostsinthecluster,donotselectthischeckbox.

14 Select

aresourcepoolinwhichtorunthevirtualmachinesusedbythisdesktopandclickNext.

15 (Optional)Configurehowuserdataisstoredbydesktops(inpersistentpoolsonly)andclickNext.

 Ifyouwantuserdatatobepreservedafterarefreshorrecompositionevent,selectRedirectuser

profiletoaseparatediskandspecifythemaximumsizeoftheuserdatadiskandassociateddrive.

Ifyouareusingmultipledatastores,youcanselectUsedifferentdatastoresforuserdatadisks

and

OSdisks.Thenyoucanselectwhichdatastoresareusedforwhichtypeofdataduringdatastore

selectioninStep 16.

DonotselectaletterthatcorrespondstoadrivethatisalreadypresentontheParentVM.

 Ifyoudonotwantuserdatatobepreservedafterarefreshorrecompositionevent,selectStoreuser

profileonthesamediskastheOS.Userdataisretaineduntiloneoftheseeventsareperformedby

theadministratororexecutedautomaticallybypolicy.

16 Selectoneormoredatastores

onwhichtostorethedesktoppoolandclickNext.

 IfyouarecreatingapersistentpoolandyouselectedUsedifferentdatastoresforuserdatadisks

andOSdisksinStep 15,youcanclickthedown‐arrowintheUse Forcolumntospecifyhowthe

storagespaceforthecorrespondingdatastoreisused.YoucanselectOSDataor

UserData.

Youmustallocatesufficientspaceforboththeoperatingsystemanduserdatatoproceed.

 TheStorageOvercommitcolumnentrydetermineshowaggressivelythesystemassignsnewvirtual

machinestothefreespaceavailableonadatastore.Asthelevelincreases,lessspaceisreservedfor

individualvirtualmachinegrowthbutmorevirtualmachinesfitonthedatastore.Clicktheentryto

modifytheovercommitlevel

foreachdatastore.

 TheMinRecommended,Storageat50%provision,andStorageat100%provisionvaluesare

providedonlyasguidelines.Theactualrequirementsforthepoolvarybasedonclientusage

patterns,applicationworkload,pooltype,andsoforth.

Ifyoudonothavesufficientspaceavailable,youmustaddfreespace

byselectinganadditionaldatastore.

Forclusters,onlyshareddatastoresaresupported.Everyhostintheclustermustbeconnectedtothe

datastoretobeshown.

17 Tojoinlinkedclonedesktopstoadomain,ViewManagerrequiresdomainadministratorcredentialsfor

thetargetdomain.EnterthecredentialsandclickNext.

 SelectthedomainnameandusernameentryfromtheQuickPrepdomaindrop‐downmenu.

YouspecifythesecredentialswhenyouaddoredityourvCenterServersettingsintheprocedure

“A d d thevCenterServer”onpage 3.ThesesettingsarenotvalidatedbyViewComposer.

 Ifyouwantascripttorunonthedesktopsbeforetheyarepoweredoff,enterthepathtoascripton

theParentVMinthePower‐offscriptfield.

 Ifyouwantascripttorunondesktopsaftertheyarecreated,recomposed,orrefreshed,enterthepath

toascriptontheParentVMinthePostSynchronizationscriptfield.

 EntertheActiveDirectorycontainerrelativedistinguishedname(forexample,CN=Computers).

18 (Optional)Whenyouarepresentedwithasummaryoftheconfigurationsettingsforthisdeployment,

youcanclickBacktomodifyanypreviouspage.

19 ClickFinishtodeploythelinkedclonedesktoppool.

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