You can provision an automated desktop pool by manually specifying a list of machine names. This naming method lets you use your company's naming conventions to identify the machines in a pool.
When you explicitly specify machine names, users can see familiar names based on their company's organization when they log in to their remote desktops.
Follow these guidelines for manually specifying machine names:
- Type each machine name on a separate line.
- A machine name can have up to 15 alphanumeric characters.
- You can add a user name to each machine entry. Use a comma to separate the user name from the machine name.
Desktop-001 Desktop-002,abccorp.com\jdoe
Prerequisites
Make sure that each machine name is unique. You cannot use the names of existing virtual machines in vCenter Server.
Procedure
Results
Horizon 8 creates a machine for each name in the list. When an entry includes a machine and user name, Horizon 8 assigns the machine to that user.
After the desktop pool is created, you can add machines by importing another list file that contains additional machine names and users. See Add Machines to an Automated Pool Provisioned by a List of Names."