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• 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.

• Question about moving linked clones

  I have a question about moving around related clones. Here is the configuration:

  PC running 7 Workstation and has an image of Windows XP existing on this subject.

  PC B 7 Workstation is running and also has its own image of Windows XP on it.

  I create a clone linked image on the PC to XP and create another clone bound B PC XP image that is out there.

  Now, I know that as long as the linked clones can access their parents, they will work very well. My question is, how is it that when I Exchange clones related - i.e. copy clone related, I did on the PC and put it on the PC B and copy the linked clone, I made on PC B and move it to PC A - how to make these two linked clones still work fine? They connect to a parent, but not the parent of origin where they have been cloned. It is tested and working 100% with absolutely no problems or problems at all. Can someone explain this to me please? Thank you!

  Can you please tell me what it means CID?

  Each virtual disk (basic and Flash disks disks) has a unique identifier (CID). A virtual disk of the snapshot also contains information on the CID to his record parent (parentCID) to ensure that the drive chain is consistent.

  What happens if you work with a linked clone and let's say in this XP image, you install a program...

  A linked clone is equal to a snapshot. Once you create a snapshot, all changes are written to the instant vmdk file and the parent remains intact vmdk file. As long as you provide the same disk parent a clone or snapshot, you can copy it as you like and the newly installed applications will appear because they are actually stored in the instant vmdk...

  See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 for more details on the functioning of the snapshots

  André

• 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.

• How to identify design-related text boxes

  How to recognize In Design-related text boxes? Way I are there no indication, where I come to find out if a Yes tex boxes are interconnected?

  Thanks in advance.

  Show text Threads is in the view menu.

• Discover related Clones gel icons

  Hello world.

  I have a bit of a dilemma.  I have a few desktop computers running that linked clones, 4 to be exact. I have recently started to experience something unusual.  Office of linked clone icons freeze at random times.  The icons are there but not doing anything when you click it.  The rest of the Office works very well, and if I use the start menu, I can browse programs and launch what I installed.

  If I reboot or simply start explorer.exe everything works again, but of course after a while, I have the same problem.

  Any ideas on what could be the cause?  It is to see the version 5.2 and I'm running the clones related to a Nutanix storage device and they were created using the plugin VAAI.

  Thanks for your help!

  Totally forgot to update this.  It turns out that the question had to do with hardware obsolete vm.  We have updated to vmx - 09 and everything seems to be ok now.

• 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.

  If you have found this device or any other answer useful please consider useful or correct buttons using attribute points

  Tom Howarth

  VMware communities user moderator

  Blog: www.planetvm.net

• * Critical question * Qfecheck not related to update KB969897 for Windows 2000

  For some reason, qfecheck reports no updates for internet explorer 6 for windows 2000. He noted, however, the same updates for windows xp.

  Troubleshooting steps already made on update KB969897:

  1. look for the new version of qfecheck
  2 Verfied update has been installed (WSUS, registry and file versions)
  3 update applied manually
  4 Verfied that registry entries have the correct permissions (full system)
  5 Ran windows xp version of qfecheck

  Additional information:
  The registry entry for KB969897 location:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP0\KB969897-IE7 (XP)
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Internet Explorer 6\SP1\KB969897-IE6SP1-20090501.120000(Windows 2000)

  Information of qfecheck:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=282784

  Hi TechNet_User_1000,

  Thank you for visiting the website of Microsoft Windows Vista Community. The question you have posted is related to Windows XP (and 2000) and would be better suited to the Windows XP community. Please visit the link below to find a community that will provide the support you want.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/relatedcomm.mspx

  Thank you
  Dave D
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Question about Design and wireless controller

  Hello world

  Although I am not new to Cisco, I have some limited experience with Wireless in general.  I was hoping to get your help with the following:

  We currently have a total of 8 1130AG, 4 on each floor.  They have been set up a few years ago, and now we are looking to update the design a bit.  Each access point has its own SSID and just provide internet access.  Looking at the configuration, I noticed that they are not configured to use the appropriate channels, the channels just randomly (9, 10, 11, instead of 1, 6, 11, etc.).  I noticed that when I roam from one access point to another, I'm losing on 4-8 pings until I re - establish connectivity again.

  Here are my questions:

  1. do I need a controller in order to use one SSID for the entire installation instead of the seprate 8 of those currently?

  2 will be using controller providing a seamless transition when a customer places between AP?

  3. is it normal to lose connectivity around homelessness?

  4. can I reconfigure the current configuration to use one SSID and provide the best transition between the AP without the use of a controller?

  5. what controller that you would recommend?

  We didn't need anything fancy, I am aware that I can activate multiple SSID VLAN, etc..  Just tried to keep the simplest possible, even reliable.

  Your entry is appreciate.

  Thank you

  Need me a controller in order to to use one SSID for the entire installation instead of the seprate 8 of those currently?

  Yes a controllers will solve the problem. any case of autonomous ap try to use the feature "unique guest SSID broadcast.

  2 will be using controller providing a seamless transition when a customer places between AP?

  It will not solve the problem, but it depends on the type of config goes for the consolidation of the AP? Layer 2 roaming? Layer 3 roaming? etc.

  3. is it normal to lose connectivity around homelessness?

  No, you should same autonomous AP, check of overlapping channels

  4. can I reconfigure the current configuration to use one SSID and provide the best transition between the AP without the use of a controller?

  This can be a solution

  5. what controller that you would recommend?

  It depends on what is your need and how much access point you have? 4400 and WISN are most commonly used.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Question about Design Standard license

  Hello!

  I would like to know, when you purchase a Design Standard license, is that for a single computer or you can install it on 2?

  I'm trying to understand volume license... This is useful only when you have computer? We may have a maximum of 6 computer using this suite.

  Thank you!

  Christ

  Hi Christ, here's a guide to presentation to answer these questions and on several Adobe volume licensing...

  If this is not the case, just post back with something more.