Chapter 9, Performing Horizon Pool Maintenance

1. Instant-clone: Push image; Linked clone: Recompose, refresh, or rebalance.
2. A recompose replaces the underlying virtual desktop master image, while a refresh simply erases all changes made to a desktop since it was deployed.
3. Reduce storage utilization, revert to a known desktop state.
4. Resolve issues with that specific desktop.
5. Instant clones.
6. In Horizon Administrator, select Resources | Persistent Disks. From the Detached tab, select the persistent disk and click Attach, then select a linked clone virtual machine to which to attach the persistent disk, select Attach as a secondary disk, and then click Finish.
7. Desktops are powered off, then refreshed, then the persistent data disks are balanced among the available datastores, and then the desktop are powered off (assuming the pool policies specify that).

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