vSphere-based - Creating and Preparing a Virtual Machine for Cloning for a Desktop Pool

This page and chapter of pages is applicable if you are using vSphere to create automated or manual desktop pools of virtual machines.

For information about preparing non-vSphere machines for use in desktop pools, see:

• For Amazon WorkSpaces Core machines and automated full-clone desktop pools, see Amazon WorkSpaces Core - Creating Bundles for Pool Provisioning
• For non-vSphere machines for use in manual desktop pools, see Creating and Managing Manual Desktop Pools.

You can create a pool of desktop machines by cloning a vCenter Server virtual machine (VM). Before you create the desktop pool, you need to prepare and configure this VM, which is used as the base image to spawn cloned virtual desktops.

• For instant-clone desktop pools, the base image is called a golden image.
• For full-clone desktop pools, the base image is called a Template Virtual Machine.

For information about preparing machines for use as multi-session and Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts, see Setting Up Published Desktops and Applications in Horizon.

What to read next for vSphere-based machines

• Creating and Preparing a Windows Virtual Machine for Cloning
• Creating and Preparing a Linux Virtual Machine for Cloning
• Creating Virtual Machine Templates for Full-Clone Virtual Desktops
• Configure a Virtual Machine with Multiple NICs for Horizon Agent
• Using Horizon Recording