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• Patching and related clones discovers the composer 4.6

  Can someone help me please understand the process of correction of gold 'Parent Image' and then recompose the clones.

  It's my understanding:

  -> Image gold

  Snap Shot 1. ->

  Office related Clone pool.

  To apply software patches, patch the Image I gold and then create a new snap shot:

  -> Image gold

  Snap Shot 1. ->

  Office-> linked Clone pool

  Snap Shot 2. -> Pool re - dial from this snapshot to give:

  -> Image gold

  Snap Shot 1. ->

  Snap Shot 2->

  Linked Clone desktops.

  Can I then just delete or remove the Snap Shot 1?

  Fix. If he is no longer in use, and you don't think you need to go back to the old image, you can remove the snapshot.

• Conflict related clones Horizon 7 MAC address

  Hello

  I'm trying to make some clones related to VM of my Master, after I do it all the Vm are having the same Mac. How do you do that?

  , I can't script so it's a no go. Is there an Option I don't see? Why is make you it an option to clone when the Horizon cannot even change the Mac automaticlly

  Goodbye, Tutti

  Any chance your parents VM has a static MAC / manuals that are configured for the network adapter in the virtual machine settings? This would certainly explain this behavior.

  In case it is, change it to automatic, start your VM parent to check that everything works as planned, firm, create a wink and then re-create your pointing to the new snapshot pool or do a Redial on existing operation.

  I hope this helps.

• Where to find the IaaS __Clone_SnapshotId used on plans related clone in the vRA?

  Hi guys,.

  When you create linked clone plans IaaS that iaas will create an entity of VirtualMachineTemplateProperties with the __Clone_SnapshotId PropertyName and PropertyValue of let's say 6.

  This id is used to identify what snapshot to use for the linked clone one can be found in the database of IaaS. However: I can't say this number (6) where in vSphere.

  If the id of the snapshot in vCenter looking then it is, for example, snapshot-7380. Is there a kind of happening of mapping in vRA IaaS between vSphere snapshot ID and the ID snapshot of IaaS? How to get the instant correct ID for IaaS?

  Good so I finally tracked. It looks vRA IAAS using the id of snapshotTree for the clone-related references. If you have access to the VC:VirtualMachineSnapshot you can find the id like this:

  //snap is the provided VC:VirtualMachineSnapshot you want to use as linked clone reference
  var vm = snap.vm;
  var id = snap.id;
  function findSnap(snapTrees, snapId)
  {
    System.log("Searching SnapshotTree for id '" + snapId + "'...");
    for each(snapTree in snapTrees)
    {
    System.log("Checking snapTree '" + snapTree.id + "' with id '" + snapTree.snapshot.id + "'...");
    if(snapTree.snapshot.id == snapId)
    {
    System.log("Found matching snapshot! SnapTree id is: '" + snapTree.id + "'.")
    return snapTree.id;
    }
    else
    {
    var childSnaps = snapTree.childSnapshotList;
    if(childSnaps.length > 0)
    {
    System.log("Checking children...");
    return findSnap(childSnaps, snapId);
    }
    }
    }
    return null;
  }
  
  // Get the id like this
  var snapTreeId = findSnap(vm.snapshot.rootSnapshotList, id);
  

  Hope someone saves some time.

• Mobile related clones of Local storage

  Hello

  My Ministry is currently upgrading to 5 and 5 view vSphere.  We have several clone linked to local storage pools.  I want to spend the pools to another host to upgrade hypervisor of the host, as well as to modernize (possibly) agent of the pool, the hardware and vmware tools.  From what I remember, in order to go to the pool, I would have to recompose the pool on the other hosts/data store, but for some reason, when I did a series of tests, the pool will not move.

  Here's what I'm trying to do:

  • I have a pool of clone related with discs persistent (dedicated assignment) to host A.  Host A has warehouses of local data A1 and A2.  The replica is on A1, and the deltas are on A2. The persistent drive is on storing shared, I'll call S1.
  • I want the pool to host B, which has a similar structure.  It has warehouses of local data B1 and B2.  Drives P'd stay S1, the replica & deltas being on B1 and B2, respectively.
  • Host A and B belong to the same cluster. S1 is visilble for both hosts.

  For my tests, I did the following:

  • I created a test tank with 1 vm matching the description of the pool above.
  • I connected to the virtual computer and made some changes, so I could confirm that drive-p has been restored after the reconstruction.
  • I created a new snapshot of the VM parent (with minor changes to the system so I could it ID).
  • I connected on the administrator of the view, the pool of test, went to Edit-> settings of Vcenter and B1 and B2 selected data warehouses.  I deselected A1 and A2.
  • I saved the settings and then reconstructed the pool with the new snapshot of the VM parent.

  When I did, the operation recompose exploded in vsphere.  A new replica was made, and the former has been removed.  I was able to connect to the virtual computer again.

  However, when I checked the settings, the virtual machine always works on host A, with A1 and A2 data warehouses.  I checked the settings in the view admin console and confirmed that B1 and B2 have been selected for the pool.  ! And A2 were not.

  I tried again with a different VM, not just a different look.  I got the same results.  The operation recompose arrives, but the pool remains on the host original/data warehouses.

  No idea what I am doing wrong?  I looked in the community pages, and that's generally what I have seen as much as the recommended method to move the clones.  A post said to select new data stores in the recompose Wizard, but I do not see this option when I dial my pool.  I guess it is because this post was for an older version of the view.

  My environment is:

  Guest - ESX4.1

  View 5 connection to the server

  VCenter 5.0

  SMV w / agent of 4.6 and material v7

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Recompose to the data store Local of ESX is not recommended and not supported.

  But there is an easier way because your persistent drives on the shared storage

  Here is the way how to do it.

  Call us your original pool as pool 1. Pool-1 Replical will be in the Local 1, delta on the data store 2 local data store and persistentd disks shared datastore 1

  Create a new Pool in home 2 from the same structure in host 1 (even the pool size too) call this hen his 2. Create this pool on demand provisioning

  Remove the pool 1 archiving his persistent records

  go to page persistent drives, go to page edit separated each drive persistent, change the last 'pool' pool-2

  now select all persistent disks and click on rebuild

  all virtual machines will be recreated in the pool - 2

  You can also try, first remove the pool-1 and create a pool in 2 host in the same name "pool-1' and recreate the disks persistent withour edit.,-that, you really have to try." but the above solution works perfectly

  Thank you

  SKG

• Error in deployment - related Clones

  Running ESX 3.5 update 4, see the version 3.1.2.

  I have the problem next, when I try to configure the linked clones, creating just 5 computers desktop.

  Error provisioning9/21/09 20:36:19 CEST: not enough disk space to set up new desktop computers. Space free existing is reserved for the growth of the virtual machines already placed on the data store. Please allocate more space for new virtual machines or storage approve change option selected for the data store

  Can someone point me in the right direction to solve this problem?  I can create 20 clones not related very well, so space should not be a problem.

  Thank you!

  Stop on error - fake provisining

  Do this settings and check... I had the same problem... it comes to calculation of free space...

  required free space is not available means after creating virtual machines need more free space...

  Just check... and confirm the back...

  Pradeep K Yadav

  [email protected]

  VMware VDI & administrator

• Related clones - they are destroyed once the user disconnects?

  Hello

  I was wondering if install you Clones related, are they dynamically created and destroyed as users connect and disconnect or stay around and take a storage space?

  Thank you

  HCC says:

  One thing I'm a little surprised, it seems that the clones take about 1 GB of space in my case as I put 512 MB of RAM and then use also 384 MB or space for something else.  The other thing, that I'm surprised is the amount of storage required for the deployment of this linked clone.  Basically you need to Parent virtual machine with snapshots and basically a duplicate of this one folder called something like «replica...» "and then of course my clones.

  This is for performance.   by putting a replica on each logical unit number you reduce it strain to the master drive.  and if you do only a small amount of clones you see so much storage recording under when you increase the number

  > It does seem like a very clean deployment or a huge space saver.

  It is a statement of eronous, lager numbers do you the more great saving you gain

  > I'm not exactly sure how other like Citrix or make this a several deployments.

  Exactly in the same way

  About storage needs is the AD / DNS clean which adds to the time of administration.  I'm sure that VMware will try to clean up and streamline some of these questions (I hope).

  Short of running a remove script area when the device is disconnected, not much you can do really.

  On another note: I'm looking to find instructions on creating a VM XP skeleton with the basics required for AD, Antivirus, Office, Outlook, VMware, NAS & Netowrk sharing etc.  I really want to get as small as possible without removing too many features.  It must be useful for the normal user...?

  Do the search on the forums there are ateast 40 threads on this topic.

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  Tom Howarth

  VMware communities user moderator

  Blog: www.planetvm.net

• After modernizing seen at 5.2, computers available to office-related clones pool fail

  Hi all

  I hope someone has an idea,

  I was running 5.1.1 environment including composer and deployment work without any problem.

  After the upgrade to 5.2 (including the composer) and agents on the virtual machine parent linked clones deployment fails.

  the virtual machine is created, but the customization goes down, if I can I connect to them, I see that there is no network adapter. which is weird.

  now, the virtual machine has of course a network card, but for some reason, the operating system does not see.

  I am using windows 7 64 bit and vmxnet3.

  If I go back to the old agent 5.1.1 it works.

  Does anyone have an idea?

  Thank you

  Hello

  I think that this address your problem http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007319 KB

  If not do it ' can you build new virtual machine with e1000 adapter and view agent 5.2 for testing network.»

  Concerning

  Mohammed

• Provisioning of related clones - "Customizing (Missing)."

  We have recently improved our vCenter Server 4.1 and installed SRM. We lack View 4.6.

  Whenever the commissioning of the new linked clones, the virtual machine is created and view reports the virtual machine as a problem of office with "Customizing (Missing)." The virtual machine is clearly visible in the vSphere Client. Composer continues to ignore missing desktop and create another, until it reaches the max for all pools.

  No idea what is happening here?

  Hello

  Have you tried to create this pool or with the same names before naming convention?

  If you can, I would try to check the composer database to see if its confusion between your names and therefore not entirely of their creation.

  This link will help to enter the ADAM / composer DBs:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1008658

  And as mittim said, newspapers would probably help

• Models of VM, Windows and related Clones updates

  In our society, we have a set of VM templates for a variety of different versions of Windows, we need to test our software. Our test workflow goes like this:

  1 Tester creates a new, empty configuration

  2 Tester adds new clone linked VMs for each version of Windows they need to test against, using our models.

  3. tests coming, development challenges coming, more tests, etc.

  4. when the test is finished, VMs will be cancelled but must be kept available for a period of time (several weeks or several months for example)

  Periodically, we run Windows updates on the models to keep them informed. In my view, that it is cancelling publication of the model, deploying, running updates, Undeploying and then publish it again.

  But this raises a few questions:

  We expect problems if not to publish models, run Windows update and then republish these models when there is, linked clone VMs based on them? Through this repeatedly over time will start to degrade the performance of the models (due to new links in chains)? How often, if ever, should we be consolidate models (we prefer to minimize this for reasons of space)?

  In fact, the picture is slightly more complicated, because the models VM themselves are linked clones:

  Windows-> add Visual Studio 6-> add to Visual Studio 2005-> add to Visual Studio 2008-> add to Visual Studio 2010

  Most of our test VMs are linked clones since the last link in the chain above: windows with a variety of pre-installed Visual Studio versions.

  I would be grateful of any advice on 1) how we should address updates of Windows running on the models and the 2) when, if ever, we must consolidate the models.

  Thank you

  Adam

  Periodically, we run Windows updates on the models to keep them informed. In my view, that it is cancelling publication of the model, deploying, running updates, Undeploying and then publish it again.

  Could they remove just the configurations if they're going to be just "sitting there"?  If you want to keep them fresh and current (compared to the model itself), then they should really just remove the configuration and create a new one if necessary.

  We expect problems if not to publish models, run Windows update and then republish these models when there is, linked clone VMs based on them? Through this repeatedly over time will start to degrade the performance of the models (due to new links in chains)? How often, if ever, should we be consolidate models (we prefer to minimize this for reasons of space)?

  I expect questions if you just don't publish/deploy/update / publish.  When "unpublish you" a new link in the chain is done, so any existing VMs based on the previous instance of the virtual machine will continue to exist without error.  All the updates that are placed in a new location, and new virtual machines will be based out of this instance, once you have published it.

  Storage performance can degrade over time, but it really depends on the profile of IO of the virtual machines themselves and the length of the string of this virtual machine.  If the update cycle occurs every month, then perhaps consolidate records each h1/h2.  If you're updating models every week, then maybe do it once per quarter.  It is just the management fees.  The technical limit is 30 links in the chain, but try to keep it under 15 or more.

  (1) how we tackle running Windows updates on the models and 2) while, if ever, we must consolidate the models.

  I think that my comments above should help you out.

  Best regards

  Jon Hemming

• Questions of design related-Clone

  Hello world

  I have a few questions regarding best practices for the design of a display environment that allows to use linked clones. In my scenario, I'm targeting two departments for a test pilot. The applications they use are similar, what is different is the shortcuts of the browser that would be generally install on their physical desktop deployment of the machine. I would rather them on one parent VM, so that they are not lost during a refresh. My question is, guys/ladies normally create a VM parent for each Department, or you just make a statue, take a snapshot for an apps to departments, and then revert to the original install different applications and then take another cliché?

  My second question is about snapshots. If I plan to not make use of WSUS and install the updates on the parent VM and then recompose (to keep the smaller delta records) it is common to start initial snapshot by an anchor, then once you install new ms updates take an another snapshop... and then once you confirm that everything works correctly You can delete the original snapshot of base? I'm still new to vsphere and instant, so I just need to better understand

  As always, thank you

  Mike

  I think your best bet is to integrate as much as possible in your VM base.  This way you can patch the VM basis and then create new snapshots for each pool.   The problem here and I speak from experience, is that when your snapshot of pool turns is so different from the base image it is simply easier to patch this particular snapshot and then create the new snapshot.   Then you have a problem you describe where you can return each snapshot and install the updates.

  If you want to have a parent VM for each Department and then use a provisioning that will reduce your wasted space.    Also remember that you can use the same snapshot to different pools so if two departments use the same applications then you can use this snapshot for both.

• All related Clones have the same SID?

  I played with the persistent linked clones and have noticed all share the same identifier SID like parent VM. Is this normal? Won't this cause of problems with Active Directory?

  Hello

  the quickprep function used with linked clones will create an account active directory for the virtual computer newly created and due to that he gets a unique SID. SOEs not change local SIDS, it's true. When you work in a domain environment, you don't need to change the local SID because it only uses the SID in an environment of the domain. If you work with windows working groups, it is necessary to have unique local SIDS.

• Related Clones and recompose behavior

  I'm evaluating view 4.5 and I noticed that when I select a desktop computer to redial (not the pool), at the end of the process, they shutdown. This is not very useful. This behavior is normal? I can do power on the virtual machine as the last step?

  Thank you.

  You could change the power of the pool settings to force it to power online.

• Moving thin model w / Clones related

  We have 6 thin gold models put in service and have filled the data store that they are on. Long story how it happened. The process that is used is a user of Clones in the workspace using a linked clone and then deploys the machine from there.

  I need to spread thin between other data warehouses provisioned templates so that it does not happen in the future but I understand that if I use the action to consolidate to move one of these models, it will affect all the related clones. Is this correct?

  If so is there another way to move a thin model to a new data store and do not break the linked clones?

  The only other option is to make a copy\clone of the model and moving it, but the problem with that is that it converts the Thin Thick model as we use LM 4.0.2. So if I cloned the model and it converted to thickness is there a way to get Thin again?

  
  Then I could take these new thin models and spread them out and those that can be used as the 'old' is not deployed.

  Thanks for reading so far and suggestions.

  Option 1: Move an existing model and all the virtual machines:

  SSMove moving (cut and paste) a clone tied together tree between data warehouses.  However, I would like to you to be on Lab Manager 4.0.4 (final version), as it has a few minor improvements to the tool.

  You must also cancel the deployment of all the virtual machines that are related to this.

  Option 2: move the template only via a full consolidation.

  This movement of the model only.  The model gets consolidated to the new data store.  The new virtual machines configured from the model will go to the new data store where the vmdk.

  The previous VMs will always exist and work.  As they are removed, the space will be released on the previous drive.  If all the vmdk related to the orignial tree is removed, then the entire tree will be cleaned.

• Rokie question: better understand the clone process related

  Hello

  I've been assessing the view for awhile, I have a few questions about the big picture behind the view.

  follow-up is my understing. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

  We will use XP as an example.

  1. I create image main the XP machine using vcenter server.

  2. shut down the computer, create a snapshot.

  3 using the vconnection server, create new linked clone pool with 50 related clones.

  4. the pool will use the snapshot as a base image.

  5. in the creation starts, I can see from the window of the vsphere client, it creates a folder called

  VMwareVewComposerReplicaFolder

  and created a replica.

  Replica-8skdjfh-2343-sdjf-ksjdf-skjdfhsdj02

  6. Once this replica has been correctly created, 50 linked clone created subsequently fairly quickly...

  7. after a few restarts, all 50 XP machine created with success, and vconnection screen shows 'available. '

  8 Note that each of the 50 XP machines will have it's own snapshot created automatically during the process.

  so my understanding is, the basic picture of these 50 machines will be this guy?

  Replica-8skdjfh-2343-sdjf-ksjdf-skjdfhsdj02

  just for the bag of the argument, let's say when all 50 machines are powered, I deleted that line from the file, which

  happen? What happens if I reboot the XP machine, is that he needs this replica file in order to properly

  Start? my understanding for linked clone is all the 50 machines share the same kernel of something, which is why we use

  that it saves a lot of space, etc.

  in other words, for example, if I want to do Windows update for all machines of 50, I boot image master machine XP,.

  finish the Windows Update, stop, create a snapshot2. later I snapshot pickup 2, redial the

  any pool, all 50 machines would receive the same updates of Windows. my understanding is the windows

  updated in fact only applied to the file of the replica, not all the 50 machines individually. Am I wrong?

  Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I think it's very important for the best under the notice.

  All 50 machines will use the file replica and if you were to remove that they would be more work.   If you want to use Windows Update the parent windows update, version ip online, would you stop and create a new snapshot.   Once it was over, you can recompose the pool which would create a new replica with the updated patches.  The workstations that have been laid would be associated with the new replica.