View dial - status hangs at 94% with linked clones

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• Best way to rebalance local drives with linked clones?

  Hello

  • 5.2 seen running, looking to update soon.
  • We use local storage (FusionIO).
  • Each pool is distributed over 4 servers running these local storage.
  • Our related clones are not persistent - users do not get a specific office, and workstations are deleted on logout.

  So, I want to patch servers.

  My thought on this is:

  1. Edit the pool to remove local storage on the server to be patched.
  2. Rebalance.
  3. Perform the update (mode maintenance, blah blah blah).

  So the rebalance operation is having limited success in my first try

  I am aware of that: VMware View 5.2 Documentation Library : you cannot balance the load of the virtual machines on a pool of resources. For example, does not allow the operation of rebalancing View Composer with linked clones that are stored in local warehouses of data.

  So I can't rebalance (first of all, I'm not sure why? In my case, cannot not machines just be deleted and recreated elsewhere - whereas a rebalancing is also a refresh anyway)?

  What is the best approach?

  • I need to make desktop computers available to local specific server storage exist anymore (once there are multiple sources available on another server storage) so that users don't connect/don't have not logged when I do the maintenance.
  • I need to make sure that desktop computers connected to local specific server storage are removed on logout (as usual) and does not get recreated on this storage again.

  Of course, when the server comes back to the top, I need to reverse the process and get the desktop on it and maintain a balance between other servers.

  Any advice?

  Thanks in advance.

  Rebalancing is not a simple delete and action of re - create. Even the workstations are not persistent, there are persistent records associated with it. as (internal drive)

  These door data as approval of the membership of domain and all. Therefore, without a shared, preserving data store and the migration of this internal drive are impossible (and prevented).

  Now for you case, because she is floating desktop computers (non - persistent).

  1. Deselect the host data store to be corrected by changing the pool.
  2. Logoff of active sessions (if any) for VMS specific / put the virtual machine in maintenance mode.
  3. Delete these specific through VMs * Administrator display inventory pool *.
  4. Configure back the technical provision of data after having patched host store,
  5. And then increase the size of the pool the desired number

• Best practice help to spend again vCenter with linked Clones

  Hello everyone

  I searched for days, but couldn't find a way clear of hover over our view 5.2 installation of a new vCenter.  The equipment was aging, and we decided to upgrade and move to 5.5.

  We have rebuilt and forwarded via our guests not VDI to the new vCenter 5.5 environment. I found a few documents, but nothing that tells us if it can be done actually.

  We tried to go in the service of the composer initially to the new instance of vCenter and maintenance, we do the DB on the old Victoria Cross, if it worked I émigrerait the DB above the new Victoria Cross

  We first tried these steps however VMware Documentation Library after removing the old VC service composer and installed on VC New (with ODBC connections mapped to the old VC) it wouldn't work.  We were moving to the VC 5.1 leaving guests ESXi running VDI attached to 5.1

  Then I did more research and discovered the related clones are all related to the database of the old VC and moving them is not possible per this KB KB VMware: workstations managed by moving between servers view vCenter is not supported

  I saw an article here that suggested dumping a bunch of DB and rebuild the new VC with the same name and IP address, but I can't do so because the new instance is already upwards and on a new host name / IP migrate view VCenter (with linked Clones) to new hardware

  I also found this where someone is in the same boat and suggested to recreate pools.  The discussion is not in the details so I wonder if someone can clarify this: migration View Composer and vCenter

  I have about 20 people on VDI in a combination of clones using 3 connected pools and personal drives.  Given that all the info from linked clone was linked to the former base of VC, it doesn't seem wise to move it to the wire.  This would be possible: I still have the base image with all the snapshots for each pool.

  • Persistent backup drives
  • Note the configuration of each pool
  • Disable the commissioning
  • Create DB on VC 55 composer vacuum
  • Create the ODBC connection for composer on VC 55
  • **
  • Do more ESXi hosts to 55 VC
  • Remove existing VMs (will be not able to connect to them at this point anyway)
  • Remove the old VC entry admin view / delete existing pools
  • Install the composer on 55, and then tap new ODBC
  • Create new instance vCenter in Admin 55-pointing mode
  • Recreate pools
  • Import and attach persistent disks (http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-BDFCCEC8-682F-4421-8810-06108CBE8D20.html)
  • Recreate events empty DB on 55
  • Reconfigure the parameter DB events in Admin mode

  Any help would be greatly appreciated as I can't find an exact way to do

  Well, I'm pleased to say it worked! I had a few problems by removing existing pools. View repeated deletion but nothing happened. In the end I had to use ADSIedit to connect to the server to manually remove all the old discs VM and pool

  After the installation of the composer on the VC 5.5, I was able to create a login in admin mode and then start to re - create the pools.

  We were able to successfully reattach each disc persistent owners planned.  Did some spot checks and desktop users, bookmarks etc. all worked

  It is a tedious process, but it does not work. I hope that VMware can create an article for it.  God knows that I searched for days, I had to read a lot of things just for this plan.

• Skyline view 6, failed to connect to deployed Linked clone pool with PCOIP?

  I can not connect to my pool bound using pcoip by the client or the web browser, however I can connect by customer and select rdp.

  Liked my statue of gold to clone a set-aside;

  • View agent
  • Member of domain with the static ip DNS address
  • VMware OS optimization tool
  • ipconfig/release
  • then snapshot and is used for specialized bound basin

  Made by basic deployment and use of vCenter customization specification (sysprep);

  Custom network setting, use DHCP and static DNS ip

  domain credentials: lots of domain and user name: administrator@fulldomainname

  Additional information is needed to help. Have you installed the tools or the agent first? Believe that desktop computers available in the administrator of the display? Do you think all the right ports open on the desktop? Haven't you view files customer newspapers and agent you can edit? What is the error message get you from the customer?

• Activation of Windows 7 with linked clones

  Hi all, I know that this has been discussed in previous posts, but I think I need some clarification. We use View 4.6 and I noticed that, in some cases (not all the time) when someone connects to your desktop of Windows 7 linked clone the message 'Windows is now activated' appears in the lower right. Other times I check and said BONE it will be self-activated in 3 days.

  The main image has been activated using our key to activate Multiple (MAK), and we do not have a Service (KMS) key management server.

  According to this KB article http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1026556

  We are encouraged to move to a system of authorisation KMS on the master server. Here are my questions...

  1. what happens if I do nothing and we run out of activations? Someone wouldn't have to be connected for 3 days for the timeout to occur? It seems to turn on only when someone connects (AFAIK). What is when to start the countdown 3?

  2. what happens if we change the option in the registry (AllowActivateMAKLicense) to activate QuickPrep activate using MAK? Everyone does, what are the advantages and disadvantages.

  3. what happens if I change the SkipLicenseActivation registry entry? It's basically what I'm doing now and let Windows activate itself when someone connects?

  4. If I should not pass master image to use a KMS how to do that? I wouldn't have to rebuild the image from scratch.

  5 is there any difference between using the "Refresh" vs "Delete" option pool after disconnect in what concerns the way the OS license is activated? If I update will keep the activated license?

  Thank you

  Brian

  Actually, we had a similar problem as you with our base images. We built the images with the MAK and after that, it was discovered the problem in doing so. You can also change the types of licenses in your images in database easily. Try this page for more information: How to use the Volume Activation Management Tool or tool VAMT | The Windows Club

  This tool is very good in what it can tell you what type of licenses that you use MS product to you and you can use it to change the keys.

• Windows 7 in a pool of office automated with linked clones?

  Hello

  It is possible to set up an office pool automated with Windows 7 clients does not use linked clones? I try, but I have not presented the snapshot of the Windows 7 machine... (I know that it is only the technical preview)

  Thank you, George.

  Because we create and use x 64 VMs of in vCenter/ESX, you expect everything to work independently of the architecture.  Now, I didn't pretend to have a deep understanding of the functioning of view Agent and composer here.  However, since they are the two required components of cloning and or support x 64 OSes, I guess there is some sort of incompatbility.

  I know that I did not give a concrete answer as to why it doesn't work (and I couldn't I a), but I'll throw a few others obvservations I did.  I have already mentioned that the view Agent USB driver does not work on x 64.  When the associated test clones on x 64 OSes, I noticed that I could not select one of the x 64 workstations with snapshots.  Out of curiosity, I created an empty VM Windows XP Professional x 32 (with no OS) and took a snapshot.  I then went through the steps to created an automated pool and was able to pick up the snapshot for the x 32 empty VM XP.  He told me that he has no control on the real operating system for clones related through composer.  They must be carried out an audit on the guest "OS" said when you create the virtual machine and only allow x 32 VMs to serve as parents for the related clones.  I don't know if there is a difference at the level of the virtual material in x 32 vs x 64 XP XP, but it may be useful to create a "Windows XP Professional (32 bit)" VM and install XP (or Win 7) x 64 just to see what happens.

  If I have the chance to test this, I'll post.  I'd be interested to hear what everyone said, because I'm very interested in getting x 64 support as well.

• Zone with linked Clones

  I make sure that my linked clones remain on the central time zone. What are the options I have to change for that to be true? I tried a few things but whenever the time zone to reflect where its launched. (I have users in various locations lance vmware view from your desktop)

  By default, the clone will take the time zone of the client connection, but you can turn it off via the GPO of the view.

• 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):

  

• SYSPREP for windows 7 64 bit linked clone pool

  Hello

  I'm trying to set up a cloning pool of VMWare View related with desktop windows 7 64 bit, but I'm having a problem with the sysprep command.

  Maybe I did something wrong in the process.

  Here's what I did:

  * installed Captain VM

  -> install a new windows 7 VM 64 bit VM (Ultimate Edition)

  -> tools VM installed in the virtual machine

  -> installed the agent of the view in the virtual machine

  -> the master VM has added to the domain active directory

  -> power off of the master computer virtual

  -> taken a snapshot of the master computer virtual

  * Make the necessary prepearations ActiveDirectory

  (creation of the organizational unit, etc.).

  * enabled View Composer in view administrator

  * created the linked clone pool:

  --> in vCenter settings, I chose the parent VM

  + its snapshot

  -> I also published the snapshot to the forwarding server

  -> in comments customization settings.

  I chose the sysprep method

  -> 2 windows 7 syspreps were awailable to choice:

  'WIN7SP01' and 'WIN7SP1 '.

  -> I tried the procedure at a time

  Added some rights for some users to

  the linked clone pool

  All the steps of the pool of linked clone in view administrator configuration worked without errors, the linked clone pool has been created successfully.

  THE PROBLEM:

  When I try to connect to the clone related with the Client view, pool

  It gives me the following error:

  "This Office has currently no sources of funds available, please try to connect to this desktop computer later or contact your system administrator."

  When I watch the console of all (10) desktop virtual machines in the vCenter.

  I see the following error message as a popup on each of them:

  "Windows could not parse or process the answer without assistance for pass file [specialize]."
  

  "The settings specified in the answer file not applicable."
  

  "The error was found during the processing of the component parameters [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup]"

  No idea what I'm doing wrong here?

  The 2 syspreps that I could choose when creating pool related, "WIN7SP01" and "WIN7SP1."

  were there to choose just like that, I've never done anything to create, is this normal?

  If Yes, what is the difference between WIN7SP01' and 'WIN7SP1 '?

  any ideas?

  "I've seen this before and I will say it was because of some kind of defective license referred to in the specifications of customization, which in your case would be WIN7SP01 ' and 'WIN7SP1.   These are not created by the sight and were probably created by the person who manages the vCenter instance because that is where they are stored.   I would check that the license specified with these customizations key are the correct keys to use with WIndows 7 X 64 machines.

• Updating linked Clone

  Hi all

  
  I was looking through the guide of the administrator for the response but did not see it, unless I missed it. I saw 4.5 configuration in a lab with Linked-Clone pool environment. I did a refresh on 1 vdesktop. The updating is completed correctly. However, after the virtual machine has been powered down. Is this a normal behavior? I waited a good 10 minutes and it was still far off, so I turned on and everything worked as expected.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Hello
  This is normal when you specify a number of virtual desktops in spare part, and this number is less than the total number of virtual desktops on this pool.
  The rest as 'Available' spare facilities (Powered on).
  The other remains as 'configured' Desktops (engine off).
  You can avoid this behavior, if you set the policy of power as "make sure that workstations are always turned on."

• 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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• Persistent change of drive - Shrink space view 4.6 linked Clones

  So in the deployment of our linked clones with persistent data records I have initially affect the size of 10 GB just to be sure that there is enough space. Now that our users files are all migrated to the new system, a user most use is like 1 GB because most of the files are stored on the network. Is it possible that I can reduce their "D" drives without having to start from scratch? I went into the admin to view > pools > edit and modify the disk size 5GB but neither refresh or re - dial did the trick. Suggestions or places I should look at for more information.

  See 4.6

  Yes, but if they're thin disc and only using 1 GB of space, then it should be only 1 GB in size.   Except of course the migration it boosted to 10 GB and then he went back up to 1 GB.    In the typical thin disk configurations (server) the only way to recover is to run something like sdelete inside the disk and then use storage vmotion to reduce it.

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  Franck wrote:

  I'm developing an interactive report and you want to have in it a clean column with links instead of the standard "pencil" - column.

  I explain it by the example of https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=81683:1:

  I want that "Deptno" column had links with the viewer just as single line "pencil" - column a.

  Why would you do?

  My idea was to change the type of column "Deptno" of plain text to Link.

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  Set the Type of the DEPTNO column on link, the link target #, #DEPTNO #and attributes of link to link text class = 'a-IRR-detail-row' data-line-id = "" #ROWID # "." Replace "ROWID" with the PK column name when unique lines are identified with a single column value. Save the changes.

  But, unfortunately, when I did in the pictures Page and save the modified Page Builder type column to return to 'plain text '.

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• PDF with links from a Mac does not work on a tablet.

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