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title: "Creating Workspot Cloud Desktop Pool on GCP"
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# Creating Workspot Cloud Desktop Pool on GCP

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## **To create a desktop pool on GCP**

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*Select Datacenter/Cloud. Select the Workspot Cloud Config configured for GCP.

*Desktop Pool Type. Selects a pool of either persistent or a non-persistent desktops. Persistent desktops are allocated permanently to a single user. Non-persistent desktops are reallocated between user sessions.

*Select Template. Selects the desktop image template to use for the desktops.

- Ignoring the search field, click the “Search” button to display the “Select a Template” popup.
- In the “Select a Template” popup, click the “Search” button to display all templates, or type a string in the search box to search for a template with a name matching the search string.
- Click the “Select” button for the desired template.

*Select Region. Selects the region and

* Select VPC\Subnet. Network (virtual address space) used by the pool.

- Click the “Browse” button to show all the defined network spaces. The spaces that are consistent with your template and datacenter have active “Select” buttons; others are grayed out.

- Click the “Select” button of the desired region.

*VM Class. Virtual machines are available in discrete sizes in terms of virtual CPUs, memory, and disk size. VMs are compatible with your template are shown here.

- Click the “Browse” button to show the “Select VM Instance” popup. The parameters of your selected template are given first, then a list of compatible VMs.
- Click the “Select” button for one of the VMs.