User's Data Disk

[Thomas_Hume]

Hi,

I have a persistent pool of desktops that have their user disk stored on the same datastore as the OS disk. What I want to do is move the user data disk to different datastore while preserving the user’s data. I tried doing this in the view composer but the option is greyed out - see image below

Can anyone suggest how I can do this without destroying the pool and recreating it?

Regards,

Thomas

[mittim12]

There are significant flexibility enhancements with VMware View 4.5 and user data disk if you can wait that long.

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[eeg3]

mittim12, do you know what kind of enhancements can we expect? I'm very interested, as well! This is an issue we have ran into as well.

[mittim12]

In 4.5 you have the ability to manipulate the UDD through the Admin tool. I believe the specifics are detach and attach the user UDD.

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[Thomas_Hume]

So, at the moment i have no option but to wait for V4.5? Surely there must be a way to move the user data disk to another datastore.

[mittim12]

I'm sure it's feasible but would more than likely require you to modify the ADAM database to relink the UDD with the appropriate VM. I think View 4.5 is going to be available for download this week or next so it's not a long wait.

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