Always keep free vms available in view pool

[visan35]

Currently we have to manually expand the pool when the entitled users exceed the number of VMS in pool. Can we automate this to always keep some free vms available for new users?

Script that can automatically expand the size of the pool when their are not enough free vms available in pool.

We use dedicated persistent linked and full clone pools.

Visan

[KyranBrophy]

Hi Visan,

You could manage this using the "Provision machines on demand' setting.

For example:

In this pool, we currently have 386 desktops. When a user connects to this pool for the first time, Horizon assigns them to one of the 15 spare machines, and automatically provisions a new VM to ensure there are always 15 unassigned VM's available. It will stop creating desktops once the pool reaches 450 VM's.

I haven't tried it, but I think you can change to the on demand setting from "Provision all machines up-front' after the pool is created.

Let me know if this helps.

[visan35]

Thanks. I will five this a try tonight.