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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2
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View Composer is used to provision linked-clone virtual desktops, which are a type of virtual machine that shares a common virtual desktop master image, also known as a golden image. View and vSphere support up to 2,000 desktops for each single replica of the virtual desktop master image, which enables significant storage savings over traditional full clone virtual desktops. The concept behind a linked-clone desktop is demonstrated in the following diagram, which shows the relationship between the master read-only replica disk and the linked-clone disk:
When a pool of linked clone desktops is provisioned, a replica of the virtual desktop master image is copied to storage accessible by the View vSphere hosts. This replica will be used as a read-only copy of the virtual desktop master image; all writes are redirected to unique disks that are attached to each linked clone. Linked clones are provisioned using thin virtual disks, the configuration of which...
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