You can detach a View Composer persistent disk from a linked-clone virtual machine and attach it to another linked clone. This feature lets you manage user information separately from linked-clone virtual machines.
View Composer Persistent Disks With View Composer, you can configure OS data and user information on separate disks in linked-clone virtual machines. View Composer preserves the user information on the persistent disk when the OS data is updated, refreshed, or rebalanced.
Detach a View Composer Persistent Disk When you detach a View Composer persistent disk from a linked-clone virtual machine, the disk is stored and the linked clone is deleted. By detaching a persistent disk, you can store and reuse user-specific information with another virtual machine.
Attach a View Composer Persistent Disk to Another Linked Clone You can attach a detached persistent disk to another linked-clone virtual machine. Attaching a persistent disk makes the user settings and information in the disk available to the user of the other virtual machine.
Edit a View Composer Persistent Disk's Pool or User You can assign a detached View Composer persistent disk to a new desktoop pool or user if the original desktop pool or user was deleted from Horizon 7 .
Recreate a Linked Clone With a Detached Persistent Disk When you detach a View Composer persistent disk, the linked clone is deleted. You can give the original user access to the detached user settings and information by recreating the linked-clone virtual machine from the detached disk.
Restore a Linked Clone by Importing a Persistent Disk from vSphere If a linked-clone virtual machine becomes inaccessible in Horizon 7 , you can restore the virtual machine if it was configured with a View Composer persistent disk. You can import the persistent disk from a vSphere datastore into Horizon 7 .
Delete a Detached View Composer Persistent Disk When you delete a detached persistent disk, you can remove the disk from Horizon 7 and leave it on the datastore or delete the disk from Horizon 7 and the datastore.