Building and Provisioning Virtual Desktop

Four types of pools

• Manual
• Automated with Full VM
• Automated with Linked-clone VM
• TS/RDS pools

Order of activities in building and provisioning a desktop VM

• Install OS, Join Domain, Enable Remote Desktop, Optimize for performance and storage
• Install VM Tools
• Install View Agent
• Create Pool

Optimizing Windows Virtual Machines

Build and provision a Manual Desktop Pool

Establish a connection to vCenter from View.

Specify concurrent operation limits

Install View agent on the "golden image" client to deploy

In View create a manual pool

Select Floating desktops

Desktop source from a vCenter

vCenter detected and selected

Specify Pool ID, display name and folder.

Specify Pool settings

Add VM to the pool.  Only use compatible VMs.

Once Pool is configured, allow users to use the pool.