When you create a manual desktop pool, you can configure certain options. Use this worksheet to prepare your configuration options before you create the pool.
| Option | Description | Fill In Your Value Here |
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| User assignment | Choose the type of user assignment:
For details, see User Assignment in Desktop Pools in Horizon Console. |
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| Enable automatic assignment | In a dedicated-assignment pool, a machine is assigned to a user when the user first logs in to the pool. You can also explicitly assign machines to users. If you do not enable automatic assignment, you must explicitly assign a machine to each user. You can assign machines manually even when automatic assignment is enabled. |
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| Enable Multi-User Assignment | In a dedicated-assignment pool, you can assign multiple users to each machine in the pool. Multi-user assignment is not supported for automatic user assignment or linked-clone desktop pools. If an assigned user has a connected or disconnected session on a multi-user assignment machine, other assigned users will be unable to launch a session on that machine. |
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| vCenter Server | The vCenter Server that manages the machines. This option appears only if the machines are virtual machines that are managed by vCenter Server. |
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| Machine Source | The virtual machines or physical computers that you want to include in the desktop pool.
To use PCoIP with a machine that is not managed by vCenter Server, check with Teradici about their supportability.
Note: When you enable Windows Server desktops in
Horizon Console,
Horizon Console displays all available Windows Server machines, including machines on which Connection Server and other
Horizon 7 servers are installed, as potential machine sources.
You cannot select machines for the desktop pool if Horizon 7 server software is installed on the machines. Horizon Agent cannot coexist on the same virtual or physical machine with any other Horizon 7 software component, including Connection Server, security server, View Composer, or Horizon Client. |
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| Desktop Pool ID | The pool name that users see when they log in and that identifies the pool in Horizon Console. If multiple vCenter Servers are running in your environment, make sure that another vCenter Server is not using the same pool ID. |
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| Desktop Pool Settings | Settings that determine the machine state, power status when a virtual machine is not in use, display protocol, Adobe Flash quality, and so on. For details, see Desktop Pool Settings for All Desktop Pool Types in Horizon Console. For a list of the settings that apply to manual pools, see Desktop Pool Settings for Manual Pools in Horizon Console. |
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| Display Assigned Machine Name | Displays the host name of the assigned machine instead of the desktop pool display name when you log in to Horizon Client. If no machine is assigned to the user then, Display Name (No Machine Assigned) appears for the desktop pool when you log in to Horizon Client. |
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| Transparent Page Sharing Scope | Select the level at which to allow transparent page sharing (TPS). The choices are Virtual Machine (the default), Pool, Pod, or Global. If you turn on TPS for all the machines in the pool, pod, or globally, the ESXi host eliminates redundant copies of memory pages that result if the machines use the same guest operating system or applications. Page sharing happens on the ESXi host. For example, if you enable TPS at the pool level but the pool is spread across multiple ESXi hosts, only virtual machines on the same host and within the same pool will share pages. At the global level, all machines managed by Horizon 7 on the same ESXi host can share memory pages, regardless of which pool the machines reside in.
Note: The default setting is not to share memory pages among machines because TPS can pose a security risk. Research indicates that TPS could possibly be abused to gain unauthorized access to data in very limited configuration scenarios.
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