To support a wider range of recovery scenarios, Horizon supports importing persistent disks and using them to create a new desktop. An imported persistent disk will not have any owner or desktop pool information, so the Horizon administrator will have to choose a new owner and desktop pool. This can be useful in scenarios where an organization wishes to retain persistent disks offline or on secondary storage that is not attached to the Horizon infrastructure.

The following steps describe how to import persistent disks and use them to create a new desktop:

1. Log into the Horizon Administrator console using an AD account that has administrative permissions within Horizon.
2. Go to Resources and open the Persistent Disks window within the console. Click on the Detached tab.
3. Click on the Import from vCenter... button, as shown in the following screenshot:

4. In the Import Persistent Disk From vCenter window (shown in the following screenshot), select the appropriate resources, including the following:
   • vCenter Server: Target vCenter Server
   • Datacenter: Target vCenter datacenter object
   • Linked clone pool: Pool where the linked clone will be created
   • View Folder: Optional—destination folder for the virtual machine object
   • Persistent Disk File: The file you will be importing
   • User: The user who will be assigned the desktop that will use the persistent disk:

5. Click on OK to import the persistent disk and associate it with the linked clone desktop.

To access the data on the imported persistent disk, the user it was assigned to will need to log into the newly configured desktop.