Horizon Desktop w 2 drives on 2 different datastore

[tdomperhun]

HI,

I have a master image (Win10Pro) with 2 drives. These 2 two drives live on 2 different datastores.

I would like create a Pool where the horizon desktops also have 2 drives and those drives live on 2 different datastores.

Is it possible?

Regards,

Peter

[BenFB]

Are you trying to make this work with linked clones? It's possible but there are some limitations listed below from the documentation. As I understand it both disks would end up on the same datastore.

Configure a Parent Virtual Machine

• Verify that the system disk contains a single volume.You cannot deploy linked clones from a parent virtual machine that contains more than one volume. Multiple virtual disks are supported.

  Note:For View Composer linked clones, if the parent virtual machine contains multiple virtual disks, when you create a desktop pool, do not select a drive letter for the View Composer persistent disk or disposable data disk that already exists on the parent virtual machine or that conflicts with a drive letter that is used for a network-mounted drive.

• Verify that the virtual machine does not contain an independent disk.An independent disk is excluded when you take a snapshot of the virtual machine. Clones are based on a snapshot and therefore will not contain the independent disk.

[tdomperhun]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

You are absolutely right, that it can be done with lined clone, but...

The customer uses Full Clones.

Do you have any suggestion or it is a dead end project?

Regards,

_Peter

[sjesse · Accepted solution]

You could make a manual pool, then put them where you want, the only downside is you need to create ad objects and the vms manually. Automatic assignments would still work

[tdomperhun]

Yes, this is just a way now it works.

But we would like to automate the provisioning of the new VMs.

Is thee a way we can automate it?

_Peter

[sjesse]

You could with powershell, put the vms in folder, powershell watches the and then clones vms from a template if its under a certain number, and creates an ad object for each one. You should be able to assign them to the pool with powershell and the horizon api, but its a bit more difficult since I haven't seen alot of examples. I had to make a manual pool for a linked clone pool we need to move and I just manually do it now, but I am looking to automate it since I don't have another option