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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ventresco
Book Image

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Ventresco

Overview of this book

If you want a more detailed explanation concerning the implementation of several different core features of VMware Horizon View, this is the book for you. Whether you are new to VMware Horizon View or an existing user, this book will provide you with the knowledge you need to successfully deploy several core features and get introduced to the latest features of version 6.0 as well.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
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Index

Creating an automatically provisioned full-clone desktop pool


The Add-AutomaticPool command is used to create full-clone desktop pools. Some desktop pool options, such as Horizon View Storage Accelerator, cannot be configured using PowerCLI. These settings must be configured after the pool has been created using the Horizon View Manager Admin console.

Getting ready

Creating a desktop pool using PowerCLI requires all of the same information that is required when using the Horizon View Manager Admin console as well as a virtual desktop master image that has been converted into the vSphere template format.

How to do it…

To create a desktop pool, we first need to determine the configuration options as described in the How it works… section of the Managing desktop pools with PowerCLI recipe in this chapter.

Not all of the values in the following example command are mandatory; the FolderID and CustomizationSpecName values can both be omitted, and the defaults can be used. The remaining values are all...