Default VM Storage Policies (View Auto Created) for Horizon View 6 and VSAN
I love VSAN! Horizon View 6 and VSAN are like a marriage made in heaven, if you create Linked Clone or Full Clone desktops in View 6.0 using VSAN. It automatically adds the default Virtual Machine (VM) Storage Policies to the objects that are created during the desktop pool creation using View Administrator. The objects that get created using the desktop pool creation such as Persistent Disk, Replica Disk etc. automatically add the disk stripe, Flash cache and fault tolerance to each object. What does that mean? Out of the box, your desktop objects are made highly available and one doesn't have to go to individual desktops and set VM Storage policies. The following table outlines the View Auto Created out-of-the-box VM Storage Policies available with Horizon View 6 and VSAN: Default VM Storage Policies No. Disk stripes per object Flash read cache reservation (%) No. Failures to tolerate Object space reservation (%) Desktop Type VM_HOME_ <GUID> 1 0 1 0 ...