
Persistent desktops give users the highest degree of flexibility and control over their own desktops. If you already have virtual desktops or physical desktops created (vCenter virtual machines, non-vCenter virtual machines, or physical PCs), you can import them into VMware Horizon 8 as persistent desktops using the manual desktop pool with a dedicated-assignment. You can create automated pools of full-clone virtual machines. There are several ways to create persistent desktops in VMware Horizon 8: For example, users who need to install some of their own applications or have data that cannot be saved outside of the virtual machine itself (such as on a file server or in an application database) require a persistent desktop. Persistent desktops have data in the operating system image itself that must be preserved, maintained, and backed up. Whether you use persistent or non-persistent desktops depends on the specific type of worker. The most fundamental question to consider is whether a certain type of user needs a stateful desktop image or a stateless desktop image.
