Linked Clone desktop deployment

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• Impossible to change the wallpaper in the linked Clone desktops

  Hello

  I have a weird problem with a client running Horizon view 6.0.1:

  In linked Clone desktops, we are unable to change the desktop background. We have created a new master without optimizations that I thought one of them already could be the problem (we removed the design etc. but just to get that optimizations).

  I can change the wallpaper in the master image without problems, but not in the deployed workstations. If I click on other models, I see more active design Aero, the colors change from window etc, but the background remains the standard image of blue windows ("harmony"). Even if I select the images from the Explorer, right-click, as wallpaper - no change.

  Anyone has the same problem and can lead to a solution?

  P.S.: We use management Persona. But I have already created a pool in an OU without management of Persona and still have the same problem.

  Best regards

  Thomas

  I saw something similar awhile back after running desktop optimization commands.   I found myself by opening a ticket with Microsoft and the following changes are what sets our questions.

  Reg load "hku\temp".
  «% USERPROFILE%\ \Default User\NTUSER.» DAT '.

  reg delete "hku\temp\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System".
  wallpaper / v

  reg unload "hku\temp."

  PowerShell Set-Service "Themes."
  -startuptype "automatic".

• Fault tolerant on VMware linked clone Desktop

  Hello

  someone may answer whether it is possible to enable fault tolerance on linked clone VM to a master, through composer.

  Client wants to protect in this way, hundreds of virtual office, I thought about using a channel 10 gigabit for the communication of FT logging, that think u dou everything?

  Thank you very much

  First off it is only recommended to have 4 FT running for each host, so would need you 25 hosts make 100 mV.

  Secondly, I am sure that this is taken care with view.

  Thirdly, also sure FT requires full VMs, clones and unrelated, so your cost of SAN will rocket sky.

  Fourth and this is my favorite, it is exteremly high Windows going down until your host blocks (ESX breaks down).  FT no help even in this situation as if OS1 block him operating system on the other server will crash at the same time.

  FT is designed for mission critical Server VM, not of VDI.

  Gunnar

• Local drives displayed on linked clone desktop

  This should be easy. I'm under View5 (new deployment) and everything works fine. My only problem is the subject line. I Googled, read the Administrator's guide... cannot find the setting!

  Thanks in advance!

  There is a setting in the GPO to disable the redirected drives.  Who would take care of your problem.

• Term of lease IP for linked clone desktops?

  I have a pool of 80 IP addresses for my POC and I was wondering what is the recommended duration of the lease?

  count how many times you rely on the update or redial, personally in my test environment I have it up to 4 hours.

• VMware Linked Clones in vWorkspace

  Hi all

  I am currently working on a proposal where client insist on the use of the VMware hypervisor as the note of calculation. I have some research in the related Clones and basically its similar to what the differencing disk VHD got to offer. My main concern here is so we can use the technology VMware Linked Clones to deploy persistent desktop or is it only for non-persistent desktop mode? How about storage if economies compared to the disk hard virtual differencing disk? What is the estimate of the use of the delta of a typical user based on your experience? Thanks for the advice!

  Kind regards

  Cyril

  Hi Cyril,.

  I can answer some of your questions.

  You can use a clone bound like a persistent desktop computer, it does not work.

  After a while, however, the linked Clone will be so different from the image of the mother, it will become very swollen (for example, updates of Windows to go it would be applied to each clone bound, user installed Apps, etc.)

  I know some customers like to capture profiles on persistent desktop computers so that they can periodically update the image of the mother and redeploy related clones from there. It works well to keep the machine day and bloating under control. The obvious drawback being any user installed apps would disappear, but it all depends on if you allow them this level of customization.

  Thank you, Andrew.

• W2K8R2 full Clone Desktop Pool status is stuck on "customization".

  I searched and read the other posts that I could find on this before posting.  I also read all the articles that I could find.

  Working through the Guide of the assessor to see Horizon 6 (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/view/VMware-View-Evaluators-Guide.pdf), I'm running into issues trying to deploy an office pool complete with cloning (p. 129).  Initially, I had a problem similar w / Linked-Clone desktop pool, until what I came across 1026556 KB.  The status of the error in the end.  Once I changed the registry licensing of Skip, those created very well.  However, I don't see this "reg" on the W2K8R2 machine key.  I tried the two w / out recording a valid key in the profile customization specification (used a MAK license when I used a key).

  VM clones / creates the customization occurs very well, and VM joined the field very well.  Starting the Service agent and stays running and I can telnet to the Horizon View Composer server on 4001 of the virtual machine.  I can even turn the machine to myself and begin to make a Direct Connect (the plug-in is installed), but I get the message that I don't have right.  I'm also not see something remarkable in the newspapers.  Think of the re-installation of the Agent and try for the fourth time.

  Appreciate any suggestions.

  SOLVED... (my bad)

  Has decided to attempt to create a pool of MANUAL and added this 'machine' to this pool.  STATUS view Console kept showing as "pending on the Agent.

  Tried to uninstall and reinstall everything then noticed I had inadvertently used a clone of another virtual machine which had the RDS role is installed.  Uninstalled all the components of the view, then the role of RDS.  Re-installed Agent of the view and everything works perfectly.

• 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.

• How to migrate Office persistent link clones of workstations for the new data store

  Hello. We have clones of persistent link to view running in the environment from our view. We need to migrate these desktops to new storage. Rebalancing is out as this will include a refresh operation - destroy anything and everything installed in c:\ of the user. Is there a method to migrate Desktop clone link persistent to a new data store, while keeping the office in the same exact state (i.e. c:\ is not updated).

  Thank you

  Never say impossible. I came across the solution when I read the article by Duncan Epping:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/03/15/Dr-of-view-persistent-linked-clone-desktops/

  I have that for my situation. Basically, replicate data from view in the new storage warehouses. Set up data warehouses replicated without re-signing with the cluster of ESXi. Turn the power off and unsubscribe the vCenter view workstations. Save the workstations from the data store replicated/mounted to vCenter and power over desktop computers.

  VCenter, nothing dramatic has happened if she sees just as vm being unregistered and re-recorded activity from the same exact data store (the same UUID). View Admin is happy because he sees just the events as desktop computers that have been turned off and then subsequently in reverse. Nothing has changed regarding the database to view ADAM, we still use the same data warehouses.

  I have already tested before for a scenario of View DR, and he succeeded. Between remembering who and Duncan's article helped me to adapt the same process for this. Nothing is impossible

• addition of CPU/memory for desktop computers in composer linked clone pool

  Hi all

  I want to add more CPU/memory for desktop computers in a pool of composer linked clone but I want to build a pool of test out changes first, while the production area is still in place. Can you screw with virtual material in the main image and then take a snapshot and build the pool of test out of it without him bring the clones in the production pool?

  I think that the process would be as follows...

  1. modify the parameters of material on the main image of Win7

  2. run the main image and let it recognize the CPU and additional memory (probably needs to restart the CPU I think)

  3. close the main image and take a snapshot

  4 create a new pool of test off the coast of this new snapshot

  Thank you!

  Yes it may seem straight, it won't cause any problems. If you want to be very careful with your prod environment, you can just clone the base image and make your tests on it.

• Is it possible deploy Windows 7 floating - Linked clone pool for 10 VDIs and licensing through KMS?

  Hi all

  I would like to build a floating - linked clone pool for 10 VDIs and lincense them using KMS.

  I read that the KMS solution is valid when you deploy more than 25 VDIs but if my VDIs are rebuild a few times during the day, why KMS does not work for me?

  I have an installed KMS and I think the job properly, but when I build my Windws 7 pool for each computer I always get this message:

  "Discover the State of the agent (16) composer initialization error: impossible to activate the license (waited 1275 seconds).

  If anyone can tell me what I should do to fix.

  Thank you

  What I do for this is to simply begin your pool with 26 machines and all have power upward.  Then just make sure all active and then reduce it down to the size you want.  Your environment might suffer a little performance while you do this, but it does the job for you.  A tip - don't forget to make offices and BONES.

• How to change the computer name of existing desktop computers linked clone pool?

  Hello

  I'm curious about something that has developed in our Organization.  New guidelines came down and we have to change the name of the computer for all of our offices to meet the new criteria.

  I have many of our users is on the offices of Linked-Clone (automated pool, dedicated, assignment see 5.1) which will have their names have been changed.  I use a 'model' for the name of the computer.

  I tried this before by simply change the settings of the pool, and then recompose the pool.  Recompose worked well, but NONE of the virtual machine names have been changed.  All machines, recomposed just fine, but keep the old name of the computer (non-compliant).

  How can I change the name of the computer of my clone in an existing pool offices?  Maybe I have something wrong.  I'm doing it instead of having to create a new pool and move the persistent disks.  I would like to change the name in the settings of the pool and recompose, but it did not work.

  Scenario:
  See 5.1

  Automated cloning related pool

  Assignment of dedicated (persistent disks)

  Thanks in advance

  It is not possible to change the name of existing workstations by modifying the settings of the pool. There is no way to make this happen automatically and in doing so manually would not seen happy.

  Unfortunately, for dedicated pools, you will have more work to do. If you do not use Persona you detach the persistent disks and recreate virtual machines in the pool with this disk to create a new virtual machine with a new name to be generated.

  If you use Persona you could remove all virtual machines and have Persona to extract profile data down to the virtual machine that would be entitled to the user when they connect then. This will cause all user installed programs go, but I hope that's not common if you are already using linked clones.

  I encourage to go to the next page, click on the feature request form link and publish information on what you're trying to do:

  https://www.VMware.com/support/policies/feature.html

  Notifications about features are reviewed by VMware and if you can get enough of your friends/colleagues notice to users to ask something often a solution will grow in any kind, nature or form.

  Hope this helps.

  -Mike

• New installation of 6.1 of the Horizon. It is normal that provisioning linked clones will take a lot of time?

  Hello

  First, I will describe my setup:

  1 Management Server: Dell PowerEdge R730 48 cores, 2.5 Ghz with 9 drive HARD 300 GB SAS 15 K (RAID 5) and 256 GB of RAM

  2 hosts VDI server: Dell PowerEdge R730 48 cores, 2.5 Ghz with 9 drive HARD 300 GB SAS 15 K (RAID 5) + 1 SSD 200 GB, 256 GB of RAM, 2 K1 grid cards

  1 unit number logic on a Dell Equallogic PS6110X (750 GB) where I put the masters.

  1 switch Dell N4032F (10 GB)

  All the server has 4 10 GB ports configured with NPAR (so, I have virtual network card of 6 x 10 GB for storage and 6 virtual network adapter for the network of the VM) and 2-port 1 GB for the management.

  My master: Windows 7 SP1 x 86 optimized with 24 GB HDD Thin-Provisionned (2 vCPU 2 GB of RAM, 3 VMXNET network Card). There is no application has added to this master.

  I can't ask the Microsoft VMXNET 3 fix because it is said that this patch is not applicable.

  I have no VSAN because that only 2 VDI hosts, so I set up my stock for each guest with local storage for the linked clones and SSD local for the replica.

  When I run the provisioning of the office pool (17 VM):

  The clone of the replica (Equallogic == > local SSD) aura 2'30 "... It's good for me (113 MB / s... the Equallogic is also used for another another LUN storage server)

  But the rest of the entire operation completes the provisioning will take 40'.

  More than 50% of carrots is around 100% of the CPU on the host.

  I tried to change my (9 disc hard + 1 spare) RAID5 to RAID10 (10 HDD). It will take 50'.

  And, when all of the operations are completed. I have 2 or 3 VM with the message: Agent unreachable and 1 or 2 crashes on the provisioning.

  One recompose your desktop one VM will take about 1'30.

  My question: it is normal that commissioning will take so much time?

  And another question: when I'm connected to a virtual desktop computer with customer Horizon during a pool commissioning, the freezing of the VM or I can't just plug. Although I Office ready. And sometimes, vCenter client will freeze to a large number of seconds during deployment

  Have someone idea?

  PS: Sorry for my approximate English ;-)

  Solution: I replaced the lsi_mr3 of storage vmware with the driver megaraid_perc9 driver.

  Thanks to ddewire for his help.

• Linked Clones remain the 'customisation' stage (composer)

  Hello

  I am trying to Setup automated pools view 4.5. It is my first use of pool automated using linked clones. The work of fine manual pools. When I create the pool all seems good. The replica is created and the clones follow shortly after. They then appear in the admin view in the inventory menu / Desktop, but they have a version of the 'unknown' agent and a status of "customization." They have been at this stage, for about 45 minutes, without change.

  When I look at them in vCenter I see that they are turned on and running, but looking at the Summary tab shows that they are still using the host name of the VM parent, so I guess that the sysprep process command has not yet been executed. They picked up a DHCP ip address correctly, and VMware Tools is running. I tried to manually restart one of the clones to see if it was a blocked process, but she comes back with the same status. The guest OS is Win7. To check the vCenter customization, I deployed a VM from the same model that the parent VM and using the same saved vCenter customization and it works very well, change the host name and join the domain correctly.

  Any suggestion would be appreciated!

  TIA,

  Jules.

  What is the customization you have selected during the creation of pool (Sysprep/QuckPrep)?

  Please not that regardless of the linked clone type (syspre/quickprep) customization will try to join to the domain that you chose in the Create Pool Wizard and * NOT * to that specified in the selected custom VC specification. That is why the domain account that is set up (the server vcenter - Configuration of the server administrator display page properties) should be correct, and the DNS server to resolve this area.

  So make sure you:

  1. the parameters for each client and DNS domain connectivity

  2 Appropritae account domain and ORGANIZATIONAL unit selected in the Create Pool Wizard

  3. the added domain account has enough permissions (see the admin Guide)

  If above settings are proper, then,

  4. check that the ' connect to power on "is enabled for the virtual Parent card computer and consists of the snapshot as the network settings (return tot eh snapshot and check network settings)

• View office patches and linked Clone pool

  I'm mobile torwards a deployment of Thin Clients using the Wyse P20 and View 4 and I was wondering if anyone has had experience using the linked clone and Altiris Agent Office pool?  If this is not the case, what practices of patching are used?

  What practices of patching are used?

  If you use linked clone you way the main image, not the desktop images.

  Power on the mask, path, clipping, create a new snapshot.

  Then (with View Manager Administration) redial your pool with the new snapshot.

  André