Summary

In this chapter, we have configured the Horizon View Administrator to deliver our virtual desktop machines by means of desktop pools. We have built and configured different desktop pools to match our different use cases, creating dedicated and floating-assigned pools, as well as building the virtual desktop machines within the pools using Linked clones, Instant Clones, and Full Clones. We also built and configured a dedicated pool for our high-end graphics users.

We also looked at some of the management tasks you will need to perform on the desktop pools, including recomposing a Linked Clone desktop pool, and managing persistent disks. As part of that, we also stepped back and looked at the infrastructure, now that we had started to build ...

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