Recomposing a linked-clone desktop pool

The Send-LinkedCloneRecompose command is used to recompose either a specific linked-clone desktop or the entire desktop pool.

How to do it…

1. In the following example, we will be recomposing to a new snapshot of the same parent VM; the snapshot is named 0525. Since this VM now has two snapshots, the ParentSnapshotPath will now be in the /0522/0525, format, where 0522 is the name of the original snapshot used to create the pool. The remainder of the command follows a format that is similar to the Send-LinkedCloneRefresh command:

   Get-Pool -Pool_id "FinanceLC1" | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRecompose -ParentVMPath "/RTP/vm/Master/Win81x32-LC" -ParentSnapshotPath "/0522/0525" -schedule "2014-07-25 18:00"
   

   The command will recompose all desktops in the pool to the snapshot named 0525 at the indicated time. You can also select a different parent VM when performing a recompose, but remember that the VM must be running the same OS as the existing desktops.

2. You...