The Desktop Pools Layer

In VMware Horizon View a Desktop Pool is a managed entity. Within this managed entity you can configure the following options:

• Virtual Machines that are provided to the Connection Server
  • Automated Pools create virtual machines cloned from a base template
  • Manual Pools based on existing Virtual Machines managed by vCenter
  • Manual Pools based on physical desktops, Blade Workstations or Virtual Machines managed by other Visualization Provider
  • Terminal Services Desktop provided by a Terminal Server
• User that are entitled to connect to Virtual Desktops provided by this Desktop Pool
• Assign Users to desktops
• Desktop Pool properties – Automated and Manual Pools have different options
• Desktop Pool Policies
• Updates to existing desktops

You can monitor the composition and usage of the desktop pools using the tests mapped to the Desktop Pools layer.

Figure 1 : The test mapped to the Desktop Pools layer