How many replicas should be present?

Hi,

I'm trying to calculate how many replicas I should have in my given scenario.

We have way more than we should, and I'll need to clean it up (VMware KB: Finding and removing unused replica virtual machines in the VMware Horizon View), but before I do I wanted to figure out how many we should have.

I have 4 pools and have 4 datastores.

All 4 pools are spread across all 4 datastores.

2 pools use a snapshot called "snapshot A".

2 pools use a snapshot called "snapshot B".

o: should we have:

• 8 replicas in total (2 replicas per datastore - one for A and one for B on each datastore) or
• 16 replicas in total (1 replica per pool per datastore)?

I was thinking that it was the latter (16) because the hardware settings (i.e. 3D Graphics Settings) could be different for each pool (although in our scenario they should be identical) and would apply to the replica, but wasn't sure.

View 6.1, linked clone automated pools.

Thanks