When you detach a persistent disk, the Windows-based instant clone is deleted. You can give the original user access to the detached user settings and information by recreating the instant clone virtual machine from the detached disk.
Horizon 8 does not support recreating a virtual machine with a persistent disk that is stored on a non-vSAN datastore if the new virtual machine is stored on a vSAN datastore. Similarly, if the persistent disk is stored on vSAN, Horizon 8 does not support recreating a virtual machine on non-vSAN.
To move a detached persistent disk from non-vSAN to vSAN, you can recreate the disk on a virtual machine that is stored on a non-vSAN datastore and rebalance the virtual machine's desktop pool to a vSAN datastore.
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Horizon 8 creates an instant clone virtual machine for each persistent disk you select and adds the virtual machine to the original desktop pool.
The persistent disks remain on the datastore where they were stored.