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Instant Clone Delta disks вЂ“ Delta disks start small whenever the virtual desktop boots and grow until the user logs off of the virtual desktop and it reboots.Whatever memory is reserved will be subtracted from the. vswp files, edit each virtual desktop and reserve its memory. If the master virtual desktop has 4 GB of RAM configured and if none of its memory is reserved then each linked clone will have a 4 GB. vswp files вЂ“ Plan for disk space for memory swap and graphics memory overhead. Note: NFS VAAI requires the Replica to be copied to each virtual desktop LUN.If you use a dedicated Replica LUN, then there is only one copy of the Replica no matter how many LUNs are used for storing virtual desktops. ItвЂ™s possible to place the Replica and the instant clones on separate LUNs.By default, Replicas are copied to each LUN that contains virtual desktops.See 2150348 VMware Horizon 7 sizing limits and recommendations for maximum virtual machines per datastore.One or more LUNs (datastores) for storage of the virtual desktops.

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See Upgrade Instant-Clone Desktop Pools When You Upgrade vCenter Server to vSphere 6.7 or Later at VMware Docs. Afterwards, take a new snapshot of the master image and perform a push operation. If you upgrade vCenter to 6.7 or later, then you must upgrade your ESXi hosts to 6.7 or later at the same time.In Horizon Console, enable View Storage Accelerator on your vCenter connection.In Horizon Console, add Instant Clone Domain Accounts.Master VM must be version hardware version 11 or newer.

#Vmware horizon set default file folder location update#

ESXi must be version 6 update 1 or newer.The master image should be in the same vSphere cluster where the instant clone virtual desktops will be created.vCPUs, memory size, network label, GPU) specified on the master virtual desktop. The virtual desktop pools will use the same hardware specs (e.g.KMS Licensing is required вЂ“ MAK licensing is not supported.

See 2005210 Unable to connect to linked clone pools after recomposing when using secure only dynamic updates with DNS to change permissions on DNS Zone so the virtual desktops can update their DNS records after a Push Image.

Ensure the VLAN has enough DHCP addresses for the desktop pool.

Do not change the port binding to ephemeral.

Instant clones require static port binding with the elastic port allocation.

Ensure vSwitch has sufficient ports for the new virtual desktops.

See 2150348 VMware Horizon 7 sizing limits and recommendations for maximum cluster size and maximum number of virtual machines per cluster.

Each desktop pool points to one vSphere cluster.

Also see VMware Technical White Paper VMware Horizon 7В Instant-Clone Desktops and RDSH Servers.

See Instant-Clone Desktop Pools at VMware Docs.

An alternative is Microsoft FSLogix, or VMware App Volumes Writable Volumes.

Persistent disks are not supported with Instant Clones.

See the Smart Provisioning YouTube video for an overview.

For lower density, Horizon 2006 and newer support Smart Provisioning, which eliminates the need for вЂњParentвЂќ machines.

Composer does not need parent virtual machines. If you have six hosts and three datastores containing instant clones, then Horizon creates 18 parent virtual machines. These вЂњparentвЂќ machines are powered on and consume CPU/Memory/Disk resources.

If you deploy 12+ VMs per host of the same pool, then вЂњParentвЂќ machines are created on each ESXi host for each datastore.

The master VM snapshot is copied to every LUN containing instant clones.

Composer was removed from Horizon 2012 (8.1) and newer.

2020 Aug 14 вЂ“ updated entire article for Horizon 2006 (8.0)ДЄll editions of Horizon 2006 and newer include Instant Clones so there is no need to use Composer.

2021 Jan 9 вЂ“ updated screenshots for Horizon 2012 (8.1).

2021 Jan 10 вЂ“ Instant Clones ESXi Maintenance вЂ“ new Disable ParentVMs feature for VUM.

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2021 Mar 28 вЂ“ new section for Automated Persistent Full Clones.

This post applies to all VMware Horizon versions 2006 (8.0) and newer. RDS Farms and pools are detailed in a separate article at. This article details Horizon pool configuration for Virtual Desktops.