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• I can locate all the linked Clones Parents

  Hello!  I am an instructor and have tons of old VMS using all my disk space.  I want to do a cleanup, but I don't want to accidentally delete a parent of a linked clone until I have a chance to remove anything important with the linked clone.  Is it possible to determine if a virtual machine is used as the parent of a linked clone?

  Thank you!

  Post edited by: alwweb - I forgot a Word.

  If you look at the Snapshot Manager for the parent of the linked clone VM, you will find that a snapshot is created automatically when you bind the clone. The snapshot icon has a "lock". Please see my attachment 'linkclonesnapshot.png '.

• Difference in size of the Parent unit and linked clone

  Hi team,

  I do view Vsphere 5.2 implementation Horizon. Implementation goes smoothly, but I saw a c disk space difference of Parent and Linked clone.

  Windows 7 with Service pack 1 built with optimization script to disable unwanted services. Free space on the drive c image parent is 3.90 Go. When I put in service a clone related in this snapshot of parent picture I found free space in linked clone vdi is about 6.5 GB.

  Please specify if anyone face the same or it is normal in the linked clone.

  Thank you

  Ravindra.

  You use a disposable disc?    When you use a disk file page flies on this disc which may explain the difference in free space.

• What Linked Clone VM after having deleted the Parent model?

  Hi all

  I deleted the models and all VM related clones still works fine

  Looks like that model files still sitting on the data store.

  It will be really difficult for me to keep track of which is where?

  It will be really useful if we could come up with a report or something to achieve exact file structures

  Thank you

  As long as a VMDK is necessary for all child VM still in Lab Manager (or a child of this VM) it will stay on the drive in its original folder.  You can eliminate some of the records/VMDK by consolidating the configurations that have been cloned from a template.  We do it with most of the configurations captured at the library.  You must be careful if or it will cost you a lot of space if

  In Lab Manager you can see this in a graphical representation on the way to resources, Datatstores and then choose the data store for configuration model / you want to watch.  The mouse on the virtual machine, and then select the context.  Not only that you get a graphical view, but when you hover over each box it tells you the name of the folder and the size of it.  He also tells

  I've been searching in the database to figure out how I can get this information and export it.  I'm only able to track down the parent folder for a current VM inside Lab Manager so far and not the parent of one that no longer exists (but always as a linked clone).

• What's this line by image linked clone

  Hello, yesterday I create a ViewPool with the Images of LinkedClone and after that I created the pool there is also a Maschiene of VM with the name "replica-cbb..." "for what is this maschien vm? (see the screenshot)

  I can't start this machine, but I can remove it.

  If I delete this maschine related clones other VMs works without problems?

  Why was this created Maschine?

  I seek answers in the VIEW of ADMINISTRATION GUIDE and the GUIDE of INSTALLATION of VIEW but I can't find anything.

  Thank you very much for your answers.

  byebye

  read this: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/resources/vmware-view-reference-architecture.pdf  https://vwade.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/linked-clones/  http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/View_Composer_wp.pdf

• Linked clones create a suorce and a replica for each clone.

  Hello

  Here, I'm a bit confused.

  When I create a group with linked clones i persistent mode, a source and a replica is created for the entire group. Love of new clones are created when needed and everything works well. But when I create a pool that is automated with the clones related in non persistent mode, a source and a replica is created for each new clone! This means I'll take 3 images for each virtual machine. Talk about disk... consuming taked drive much more for each clone by comparing it to a single machine. Has anyone seen this behaviuor before? What's wrong?

  I'm using vmwiew 3.1 and esx3.5

  You have a virtual cd attached to your statue of gold? Remove it and try again...

  Best regards

  Linjo

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• Sizes of pool linked Clone

  We have licenses to run 100 concurrent jobs to one of our branches.  In view of this, I wonder if I should create pools with 50 workstations in each.  My thought is that 50 linked clones will easily run on a LUN (our default size) of 500 GB and it will segment the workstations some in case someone is never something arousing to a pool.  Should I think in that sense, or should I create just a large pool of 200 workstations?

  Thoughts?

  I don't see anything wrong with that.  For my part do not use reserves, but it is easily changed if you have problems.   Review you the guide to optimization of Windows 7 provided by VMware?

• Linked clone - selection of a VM parent

  I have proof of validation lab I play with view 3.x. I create an automated Office Pool that uses the option "use technology clone bound to create jobs in this pool.

  My problem is that I had somehow previously created two virtual computers that appear in the selection list when asked to choose a parent VM for the new pool. I tried to create other virtual machines that will also see the place in the list of choices, but can't seem to find the right combination of options that will make the new virtual machine appears in the parent VM selection list.

  Any ideas what options it takes creating a new parent VM for use in a related clone pool?

  The VM parent you want to appear in the list must have a snapshot so he can create linked clone. The next step is to choose which snapshot you want.

• How to find the Parent Machine to a linked Clone?

  Hello

  I deployed a few clones using Lab manager, now, I wanted to find out how the clone Parent deployed to find?

  I checked in the VM, for each child VM properties, is to show the string length... I want to see information such as (uses or used by types)... Child uses clone Parent or Parent clone is used by 'x' number of clones of children...

  Please tell me how to find it?

  Kind regards

  Esxvmuser

  Hey Buddy,

  Open your configuration. You will see a list of all the VMS in your configuration.

  There is a field called 'model '. This is your parent VM.

• Bloating of snapshot using linked clones

  I have currently a VMware view test the configuration of the environment as follows:

  1 host ESXi 4.1

  NetApp SAN with a volume of 250 GB configured

  1 120 GB lun for the linked clones, 1 lun 60 GB for the VMs parent

  vCenter vsphere, running on a windows 08 R2 vm Server (also houses see composer)

  1 discovers the connection to the server running on a server 03 R2 vm windows

  1 view security server running on a windows 08 R2 vm Server

  So far, I was able to get the environment view work just fine.  It's a project pilot in its beginnings, there is not a lot of users (usually 1 or 2 to a maximum of time, with maybe of 5 overall users).  I noticed recently that storage that I allocated is being consumed way more that I thought it would be.

  There are two parents VM, which have 2 GB of RAM with a 25 GB HD and 1 GB of RAM with a 15 GB HD, respectively.  They are sitting on their own separate logical unit number.  The first virtual machine (25GB / 2GB) has 2 clones and the second a 3 clones in a 120 GB LUN.  When I browse this data store in vSphere, I find this:

  When you look at this picture, I see that the size of the virtual disk is 32 GB, which is fine for Replica 2, VMs and 5 related clones.  The part that I find confusing is that snapshots take 31,75 Go.   After further investigation by browsing the actual data store, I see this:

  

  This clone also has a snapshot file, which is about 7 GB in size.  I checked each clone, they all have this snapshot file.  In addition, even the clones that are in the pool, but currently unfunded have this snapshot file sitting on the LUN.

  Is there a setting within the opinion that took me unintentionally allowing this behavior, or each linked clone have / need this snapshot?  If it is not possible to turn it off, can someone explain to me his relevance/importance and whether or not I can remove these files?  It seems to me that to have a glimpse of a linked clone is redundant and a waste of space, I have a snapshot of the parent which I can return at any time if I need to.

  Andre, it talks about the snapshot is created on the clone in 4.5.  This snapshot, allowing a quick return to the base image when you do updates where as in previous versions should be deleted the clone and build new.

  Suiname if you need to remove (commit) the snapshot he would place all of the changes that had accumulated on the initial VMDK, so I don't think you would save any space out there.   If you return to this snapshot, it would open the entire space, but which is identical to a discount.

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• Linked clone provisioned storage

  I have an image master win7, I am deploying in a linked clone floating pool.  My main image is 32 GB.  When I create pools, each of the reports linked clones in vCenter they have 66 gb is put into service.  What is the origin of the vCenter to think he has 66 s gb available? Administrator-display report data store real used space or report that if all maxed out at 32 GB vm, this amount of space would be absorbed?

  Thanks for any idea

  Hello

  This occurs when the virtual machine has a snapshot.

  Is total disc space implemented parent parent and child, where everyone can develop in real space specified when the disk was created.

  It also adds the swap space necessary for the virtual machine, which is equal to the RAM.

  This is a discussion on this

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1474959

  In the case of the space used for the linked clone, you must add replica + OS UDD + disc + other misc files VM file, swap file

  Thank you

  Noble

• Problem with the floating linked clones and Persona

  Hello

  We run a build view Horizon 6.2.0 - 3005368.

  Just improved our VMware environment to 6.2 and installing an APEX 2800 PCoIP card on our guests.

  I had a pool of office dedicated clone bound for users.

  Now, I made a new image of master and made a new Automated Desktop Pool pool who are floating clone related.

  With the dedicated bound vmis, we place disc profiles of users etc are located.

  With the new pool, I'll use Persona. I followed this guide - http://terenceluk.blogspot.no/2012/10/configuring-roaming-profiles-with.html?showComment=1445933020356 and it works very well indeed, almost.

  For users of a trial, I can see that if something I save it to the desktop, it will be saved on the server of file \\fileserver\redirected$\%username%\Desktop

  When I use my user and try to even something on the desktop - it c:\%username%\Desktop

  I tried to reset, remove my user etc., but it's not. All the settings I made in the GPO - Computer Configuration-> administration-> classic administrative templates (ADM) models-> Configuration of the VMware View Agent-> Persona

  Management-> Folder Redirection

  But my users settings are only "local".

  How is it?

  This can be caused by an incorrect action or NTFS permissions on the redirection of folder/persona.

  She is also due if your user account has a profile on the parent whose linked clone desktops are created.

• Why Linked Clone drive so slow?

  I hope someone has the answer or advice to get better performance with VMware View Linked Clone VM. Just trying to understand why the disk performance is so slow with linked if Clone disk compare with normal disk. Just compare the tests of two simple facts with Iometer with the same configuration (4K, writing 80%, 100% random). The first test is inside the linked Clone (C:\) disk and the second is by normal drive added to the same VM on the same data store.

  RESULTS by C:\ (Linked clone)

  ARE OPS / s: 376

  Flow: 1, 6 Mbps

  Latency: 25 ms

  CPU: 62%

  RESULTS with D:\ (normal disk added to the same data store - Thin Provisioning)

  ARE OPS / s: 3369

  Flow: 13, 8MBps

  Latency: 3, 0ms

  CPU: 13.5%

  The latency is almost 10 times longer and PAHO are / s is almost 10 times less with linked Clone disk. I have attached the Iometer results here combine with ESXTOP results. The ESXTOP shows the same poor results, but strangely the VM do a lot of readings with the linked Clone test. The CBRC is enabled on this pool but I don't think it could have an effect since the disk Iometer is on the 'delta' so not in the drive to digest.

  I am sure that the problem is not with the hardware, but just in case, here the configuration:

  ESXi 5.5 (Dell Poweredge r.620)

  EqualLogic PS6100XV

  4 X iSCSI 1Gbs railways

  See Horizon 5.3.1

  vCenter 5.5

  Base image Windows 7 x 64, 2 vcpu

  Solved!

  Finally, there is the problem of the image of the mother. The version of the hardware was v8. After the upgrade to version 10 of material and to recompose the pool, the problem disappeared.

  Since the 5.2 view, there is a new type of disk to disk clone bound: "SE Sparse (bulk) disc. Is it supposed to be better for the efficiency of storage, especially for the reclamation of storage, but there is a better treatment of the IO, written with alignment issues. It's the type of disk by default for Linked clone, BUT only when the image of the mother is on version 9 or higher of the material...

  The results are now OK with the same test VDI. Now, the metric VMWAIT % is normal:

  

  We can see the type of different disc for disc of delta between the version 8 material (first) and 10 (second):

  

• Fusion 6 Linked Clones - not a spectacular featured :(

  I was happy to finally have the opportunity to work with clones related to the merger 6.

  However, now that its here... I find this feature useful.

  It is easy to build a linked clone.   But... I need to be able to add additional disks to the linked clone.  It is not possible.

  

  I was hoping to create a single image master 'gold' a Windows 2012 R2 server.
  Then quickly deploy a number any of servers by using linked clones.

  Some of my guests require additional disks to support other applications.

  Unfortunately... related clones do not allow adding additional disks.   Why this limitation is imposed?

  To work around this limitation.

  https://communities.VMware.com/message/2286998#2286998

• Instant and linked clone automated floating pools

  I am trying to understand the interaction between the image and the snapshot used to define the pool and pool record itself original.

  For example; A snapshot is taken of an optimized image of Win7, call it the image of 'work '. No other changes are made in the image of 'working '. An automated floating pool linked clone is created from this image and the snapshot. In this case, since we use roaming profiles and folder redirection its my understanding that no changes to the workstations are stored on virtual machines. Because it would seem that no change is retained which would be stored in the snapshot, what purpose would serve the snapshot?

  My organization takes images of maintaining not optimized as master of the images to install software changes and updates, and then their cloning off to pictures of work. These images of work are used to create our pools. (Should) a picture of work and the other snapshot allows to form several pools of condition there is no difference between the software needs of the different pools? Commissioning several pools is intended to prevent an entire segment of the company to be without a computer something becomes corrupted in one of the pools.

  Thank you in advance.

  H

  The latter is used to create a replica that is a read-only copy of the virtual machine.   When your linked clones are created, they are related to the replica.

  You can absolutely use snapshot to multiple pools, if you choose.