Internal disk

Finally, we have the internal disk. The internal disk is used to store important configuration information, such as the computer account password, which would be needed to join the virtual desktop machine back to the domain if you refreshed the linked clones. It is also used to store the Sysprep and Quickprep configuration details. We will cover Quickprep in Chapter 7, Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS.

In terms of disk space, the internal disk is relatively small, averaging around 20 MB. By default, the user will not see this disk from their Windows Explorer, as it contains important configuration information that you wouldn't want them to delete.

The following diagram shows you an outline of the different disk types created:

In the next section, we will take a deeper dive into how the linked clone process works.