Data Object - FarmCustomizationSettings

Class: VMware.Hv.CustomizationSettings
Property of: FarmAutomatedFarmData, FarmAutomatedFarmSpec
See also: ADContainerId, FarmCloneprepCustomizationSettings, FarmCustomizationScriptSettings, FarmSysprepCustomizationSettings, InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorId, ViewComposerDomainAdministratorId
Since: Horizon View 6.2

Data Object Description

Customization settings.

Data Object Properties

Properties

Name

Type

Description

customizationType

xsd:string

Type of customization to use. For linked-clone RDS Servers, this cannot be changed after creation.

This property will be one of:

Value	Description
"SYS_PREP"	Microsoft Sysprep is a tool to deploy the configured operating system installation from a base image. The machine can then be customized based on an answer script. Sysprep can modify a larger number of configurable parameters than QuickPrep. This is applicable only to RDS servers belonging to Automated Farms.
"CLONE_PREP"	ClonePrep is a VMware system tool executed by Instant Clone Engine during an instant clone machine deployment. ClonePrep personalizes each machine created from the Master image. This is applicable only to instant clone farm.

domainAdministrator

ViewComposerDomainAdministratorId

Deprecated. This property is being deprecated since View Composer will no longer be supported from Horizon version 2012 onwards.

View Composer domain administrator. This is the administrator which will add the RDS Servers to its domain upon creation. This must be set for linked-clone RDS Servers.

This property need not be set.

instantCloneEngineDomainAdministrator

InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorId

Instant Clone Engine domain administrator. This is the administrator which will add the machines to its domain upon creation. This must be set for instant clone RDS Servers.

Since Horizon 8.3

This property need not be set.

adSiteName

xsd:string

The AD Site, associated with instantCloneEngineDomainAdministrator, which will be used for instant clone pool provisioning. This attribute is valid for only instant clone automated farms.

Since Horizon 8.9

This property need not be set.

adContainer

ADContainerId

View Composer Active Directory container for QuickPrep. If unset, this will default to the AD container "CN=Computers".

This property need not be set.

reusePreExistingAccounts

xsd:boolean

Whether to allow the use of existing AD computer accounts when the VM names of newly created RDS Servers match the existing computer account names. This is applicable only for Automated Farms.

This property has a default value of false.

enableSysprepDomainJoin

xsd:boolean

Indicates whether Microsoft Sysprep process initiates domain join for instant clone virtual machines. When enabled, Microsoft SysPrep process creates computer accounts and perform domain join on instant clone VMs.

Since Horizon 8.11