Manual pools are custom, dedicated desktops for each user. A VM is manually built for each user who is using the manual pool. Manual pools are stateful pools that generally do not utilize profile management technologies such as View persona or roaming profiles. Like dedicated pools, once a user is assigned to a VM, they will always log into the same VM. HA requirements for manual pools are very similar to dedicated pools. Manual desktops can be configured in almost any manner desired by the administrator. There are no requirements for more than one disk to be attached to the manual pool desktop.

Manual pools can also be configured to utilize physical hardware as the virtual desktop. In this situation, there are limited high availability options without investing in exotic and expensive hardware. As best practice, the physical hosts should be built with redundant power supplies, ECC RAM, mirrored hard disks pending budget and HA requirements. There should be a good backup strategy...