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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
Index

Creating a Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pool


Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pools are pools that provide access to Windows RDS hosts rather than individual Horizon View desktops.

Getting ready

Prior to creating the Windows RDS pool, at least one supported Windows RDS Server with the Horizon View agent installed must be available. This RDS Server must not be assigned to any existing Windows RDS pools, as it will be added to the new Windows RDS pool during the pool-creation process.

How to do it…

To create a desktop pool, we will 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.

The following example command will create a Windows RDS desktop pool and add the RDS server named TermServ-01 to it:

Add-TerminalServerPool -Pool_id "TermServ1" -Pm_id (Get-DesktopPhysicalMachine -Name "TermServ-01").sid

The Get-DesktopPhysicalMachine option was run within the command in...