In this section, we will review the PowerCLI commands that are used to create Horizon desktop pools. This section assumes that you are familiar with Horizon pool configuration options, some of which are described in Chapter 7, Creating Horizon Desktop Pools.

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, if you need more information about a specific command you can use the PowerCLI Get-Help command in the format Get-Help command -full | more, replacing X with the command in question.

When creating linked clone desktop pools, you must specify the vCenter and Horizon composer domain in separate commands prior to beginning the command that actually creates the pool. This is done in the sample commands provided. The required text is shown in the following code:

Get-ViewVC -serverName “Vc-01.vjason.local“ | Get-ComposerDomain -domain “vjason.local“ -username “vjasonsvc-composer“ | …

The | character is used to feed the results of one PowerCLI command into the next command provided, which is an operation known as piping.