Here is my situation guys. I have worked with View 4.6 and
5.0 before in the past.
I was told by a VMware technician, it is best practice to
have the VM being used as a template for a pool to be in a powered down state
all the time after you have associated that VM to a pool.
The only time you power this VM on is to make changes. Once
you are finished with the changes do an ipconfig release then power the machine
down.
You should then edit your pool settings to point to the new
changes.
Another question that comes up is in View 5.1, can I work on
this template in the middle of the day while users are working on the VM’s in
the pool associated with VM template machine without seeing a issue come up.