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.
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.
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...