Deactivate or Enable Provisioning in a Linux Desktop Pool

When you deactivate provisioning in an automated desktop pool, VMware Horizon 8 stops provisioning new virtual machines for the pool. After you deactivate provisioning, you can enable provisioning again.

Before you change a desktop pool's configuration, you can deactivate provisioning to ensure that no new machines are created with the old configuration. You also can deactivate provisioning to prevent Horizon 8 from using additional storage when a pool is close to filling up the available space.

Procedure

1. In Horizon Console, select Inventory > Desktops.
2. Select a desktop pool and change the status of the pool.

   Option	Action
   Deactivate provisioning	Select Disable Provisioning from the Status drop-down menu.
   Enable provisioning	Select Enable Provisioning from the Status drop-down menu.

3. Click OK.