HI ,

while trying to connect the view to event db , I am experiencing a weird issue where in getting "unable to connect " error message.

also in the error log I am getting below errors can you pls help.

TP-Processor1> [ConfigurationManagerBean] ADAM Error code: 2,128 com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.ConfigurationManagerBean.updateDatabaseConfiguration(SourceFile:181)

com.vmware.vdi.adamwrapper.exceptions.ADAMServerException: database initialization failed, SQL exception when connecting to database: The TCP/IP connection to the host  has failed. java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

  at com.vmware.vdi.admin.be.ConfigurationManager.a(SourceFile:1703)

  at com.vmware.vdi.admin.be.ConfigurationManager.updateDatabaseConfiguration(SourceFile:1580)

  at com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.ConfigurationManagerBean.updateDatabaseConfiguration(SourceFile:177)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

  at com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.common.ViewFlexFactory$ViewProxy.invoke(SourceFile:113)

  at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy56.updateDatabaseConfiguration(Unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

  at flex.messaging.services.remoting.adapters.JavaAdapter.invoke(JavaAdapter.java:418)

  at flex.messaging.services.RemotingService.serviceMessage(RemotingService.java:183)

  at flex.messaging.MessageBroker.routeMessageToService(MessageBroker.java:1400)

  at flex.messaging.endpoints.AbstractEndpoint.serviceMessage(AbstractEndpoint.java:1011)

  at flex.messaging.endpoints.amf.MessageBrokerFilter.invoke(MessageBrokerFilter.java:103)

  at flex.messaging.endpoints.amf.LegacyFilter.invoke(LegacyFilter.java:158)

  at flex.messaging.endpoints.amf.SessionFilter.invoke(SessionFilter.java:44)

  at flex.messaging.endpoints.amf.BatchProcessFilter.invoke(BatchProcessFilter.java:67)

  at flex.messaging.endpoints.amf.SerializationFilter.invoke(SerializationFilter.java:166)

  at flex.messaging.endpoints.BaseHTTPEndpoint.service(BaseHTTPEndpoint.java:291)

  at flex.messaging.MessageBrokerServlet.service(MessageBrokerServlet.java:353)

  at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:723)

  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)

  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)

  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:646)

  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:436)

  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:374)

  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:302)

  at com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.servlet.AMFProxyServlet.a(SourceFile:90)

  at com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.servlet.AMFProxyServlet.doPost(SourceFile:57)

     Has anyone ever seen or come across changing the users password in Active Directory and then cannot open outlook or sign into Microsoft Lync?  If I change the users password back to the old password everything works fine.  I have elminated AD replication issues with Microsoft and roaming profile issues.

     I logged into a physical computer with the same user's username and password and had no issues.  It seems to only occurr on the virtual desktop.  We are using View 4.6. If however I remove the desktop entirely and re-create their roaming profile I am able to log into the desktop with no issues. I am fairly new to VMware so if you need more information please let me know.

Thank You

We are running View 6.0.1 and ESX 5.5 U2.  Form my PC, which was a 1920x1080 resolution, I connect to a View Desktop and the View desktop (Windows 7 x64) comes in at 1920x1080 as well.  I then open an application like Outlook or IE and it opens in full screen.  I leave the application open and disconnect from the desktop.  When I reconnect to the same desktop, the application is still open but the application is resized and not full screen like below even though the desktop still reports 1920x1080 resolution.  Any idea why?

I am using Floating Linked clones.  The Pool setting is 2 monitors at 1920x1080 resolution

Hello,

I'm experiencing quite slow logins. I'm using persona management and immidio flex. The user has only a very small profile, from the event viewer i see thats processed in 10 seconds but the login takes 40 seconds.

Any ideas?

I need some help in trouble-shooting an odd issue:

We've installed the VMWare View PowerCLI on a server and use the cmdlet Get-DesktopVM to get the list of all VDIs. That all works when I login with RDP to the server and use the VMWare View PowerCLI (which loads the correct snapin).

But I want to automate this and we use HP SA to do this. It logs in with it's own way (which works perfectly fine) and then tries to run the power shell script.

Our script loads the snapin with

. "D:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\extras\PowerShell\add-snapin.ps1"

and then runs Get-DesktopVM

But then it gets this error:

          Welcome to VMware View PowerCLI

Get-DesktopVM : View Server connect FAILED

At C:\temp\rak1.ps1:2 char:14

+ Get-DesktopVM <<<<

    + CategoryInfo          : NotInstalled: (vmware.view.pow...ts.GetDesktopVM

   :GetDesktopVM) [Get-DesktopVM], Exception

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Node Manager not running,vmware.view.powershell.

   cmdlets.GetDesktopVM

As said, the same thing works fine if I login with RDP so I don't think there's anything wrong with VMWare View or the way the PowerCLI is installed.

But something is obviously missing in this powershell environment when logged in via HP SA.

Could someone give me some hints on how to trouble-shoot this? What does Get-DesktopVM need to be able to connect to the Node Manager? Does it look for a file, is this a TCP/IP connection which maybe goes to the wrong address, or how does this work.

I'm already staring at this for many hours and I'm trying all kind of things. For a while I thought we miss the vmtoolsd process and I started it in this shell. But that didn't make a difference either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I recently inherited a VMware View 5.3 environment and I have an issue when I recompose the systems.  I can deploy a new VM from a recent snapshot but every time I recompose the desktops the HD boot order changes in the BIOS and the system cannot boot until I manually modify the order.   I tried to recompose the system to the previous snapshot and had the same issue.  Thoughts?

I have had this come up a couple of times, so far only with users that are trying to connect to our Horizon 6 environment from home.  They'll select a pool to connect to, the connection will start, and they'll get a black screen followed by a Windows loading screen which resizes itself to fit their monitors, then the client will close out completely with a message saying "The connection to the remote computer ended". 

Oddly, if I use my credentials to connect, I'll get the same behavior except that instead of the client completely closing out, only the session shuts down.  The client stays open though and I can choose to connect to the pool again without logging back in.  If I do this, it seems to reconnect me to the same session that I had just disconnected from because rather than showing me the Windows splash screen, it puts me into the desktop for a couple of seconds before killing the session again.

In the Horizon log on the client, I see this:

2016-01-08 17:20:43.141+-5:00 INFO (1C40) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ReconnectTicket CB

2016-01-08 17:20:48.071+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] PCoIPWindow::OnConnectionStateChanged : RemoteMKS connection failed with error 'The connection to the remote computer ended.'.

2016-01-08 17:20:48.081+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] AutoHideMessageBox::ShowAutoHideMessageBox : Show auto hide message:The connection to the remote computer ended..

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] DesktopWindow::OnClose : [User] Enter CloseWindow.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] PCoIPWindow::PreDestroy : [User] Enter Pre-Destroy.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] PCoIPWindow::PreDestroy : [User] Exit Pre-Destroy.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] PCoIPWindow::OnDestroy : [User] Enter Destroy.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] PCoIPWindow::OnDestroy : [User] Exit Destroy.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] Services::DesktopClosed : The item closed is just the one that launched at last: 'cn=linkedclone-c1v9,ou=applications,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int'.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] Services::DesktopClosed : User has closed all windows, exiting the application, as it's not from URI or Horizon.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] Services::LogOffServer : [User] Enter Services::LogOffServer.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.490+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [libcdk] CdkUtil_SetLocalAddress: fd -1 < 0, not retrieving local address.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] Services::LogOffServer : [User] Exit Services::LogOffServer.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] DesktopWindow::OnClose : [User] Exit  CloseWindow.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [WinCDK] USBDevices::~USBDevices : Release USB instance. The broker is 'PUBLIC_FQND_OF_SECURITYSERVER'. The desktop is 'LinkedClone-C1v9'.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_Release: 00000000

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_ValidateHandle: 00000000 (bad magic)

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 ERROR (0B00) [WinCDK] USBDevices::FreeEnumData : CdkViewUsb failed to free enumeration. The reason is 'ViewUsbStatus_BadHandle'. The broker is 'PUBLIC_FQND_OF_SECURITYSERVER'. The desktop is 'LinkedClone-C1v9'.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [libcdk] CdkViewUsb_CloseDesktop: releasing USB devices for desktop "cn=linkedclone-c1v9,ou=applications,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int@7412"

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_Release: 03CB8640

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_ValidateHandle: 03CB8640 (DESKTOP, ref:1)

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_RemoveChannel: 03CB8640

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_ValidateHandle: 03CB8640 (DESKTOP, ref:0)

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: mmfw_PostMsg_Tracked

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_ValidateHandle: 03CB8640 (DESKTOP, ref:0)

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_DropAllConnectedDevices: desktop=03CB8640

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_Release: 03CC8370

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_ValidateHandle: 03CC8370 (CLIENT, ref:2)

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: mmfw_PostMsg_Tracked

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 DEBUG (0B00) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: mmfw_PostMsg_Tracked

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 INFO (0B00) [libcdk] TaskCombiner: CdkDoLogoutTask(TODO) added, group task num:1, total task num:1.

2016-01-08 17:20:56.506+-5:00 WARN (0B00) [libcdk] CdkDebug_PrintErr: Error reading from tunnel HTTP socket: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

I thought that the bold, red part up there might give some clue as to what's going on... any thoughts?  This is not affecting all external folks (I can connect fine from my laptop as can at least 8 test users), and it doesn't seem to matter whether I use PCoIP or RDP, although RDP just closes with no pop up windows, so I think that we can rule out a firewall problem, but I'm open to suggestions.  I get similar behavior when I try to connect with my iPad though, so that's probably relevant.

I replied to another post on this issue but thought I would start a new one just in case.

I have a new desktop pool of linked clones with persistent hard drives.  It adds a D and E drive for user data and temp data.

I also have view persona management enabled via group policy. So when the user logs in it copies the persona data from a shared folder to the D drive of the linked clone.  Pretty standard setup!

My Documents, Favorites and Desktop are folder redirected using persona management but the other folders are copied using the roaming profile setting described above.

This is working great!

Now the issue is I am running into an issue I am working with VMWare with where when a linked clone is restarted the entire server locks up and we loose connection to the local lun.  This issue doesn't happen with full clones and dedicated machines.

I have the disk space so I want to switch the users from linked clones to full dedicated machines so I can back them up and restore if needed.

The problem is when you log in a user with persona management enabled on the full clone I can't get the desktop to start up.  It gives me the back ground of the desktop and I can run Ctrl-Alt-Del but can't get the start menu to show up.

With logging enabled I can see it referencing the start of explore.exe but nothing after that.

If I turn off persona management then it works fine.  Any ideas on how to resolve this?  I want to continue using Persona Management.  If I log in as an admin it works fine but that profile doesn't use persona management.

View 5.1

I just built a new Windows 7 pool for an office in Australia. For some reason, the time zone does not sync. All the research I've done (as well as KB article: 1006773) states that the time zone should be pulled from the client by default. I haven't made any changes that I know of that would have disabled this.

Hello,

I noticed that after an windows update my linked clones are exhibiting a high CPU activity. It turns out that after a.NET update windows is re-compiling .NET assemblies in the idle time. Not good if you have a hundred of VM doing this. A workaround is to force the rebuild to happen before you clone the base image:

x64

%windir%\microsoft.net\framework64\v4.0.30319\ngen.exe update /force

x86

%windir%\microsoft.net\framework\v4.0.30319\ngen.exe update /force

source: Force Run .Net Runtime Optimization Service before boxing · Issue #65 · joefitzgerald/packer-windows · GitHub

Anyone out there running linked clones on a PowerEdge R820? Just trying to get an estimate of how many VM's you run per host. (Yes, I'm familiar wit the VDI calculator, but looking for a real world scenario). Thanks

Hi

I have one employee who changed his name due to marriage so we renamed the AD Object to the new name. But now if we search for the new entry its show up but if we grant the permission for the user its displayed with the older name and the user cannot use his permission to access USB that was granted.

I'm using View version 6.0.1

Anyone got any ideas on updating this information?

Thanks

JS

Hello:

We are on Horizon 6.1.1 using Samsung NC241 zero clients doing a PoC over our local network (no remote users), all going through one connection server with about 20 clients total. We've run in to an issue where some users on the zero clients are getting disconnected at random times while using the session. It seems to be worse for those that are streaming audio/media, than those that are not. Around the time that they are disconnected, their audio streaming will start getting choppy and eventually the session will lock and shortly after they get the disconnect error. After re-connecting, everything will be fine for a few hours.  I have looked at the Teradici client logs as well as the pcoip_server logs.  About the same time that the client drops, the pcoip_server log will truncate and it will start a new log, which tells me that it might be crashing and relaunching?  In the Windows event viewer I'm seeing the error:

Faulting application name: pcoip_server_win32.exe, version: 3.30.1.27618, time stamp: 0x5554434e

Faulting module name: svgadevtap.dll, version: 9.9.0.6642, time stamp: 0x55482957

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00006107

Faulting process id: 0x350c

Faulting application start time: 0x01d1496c7163e1e0

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Teradici PCoIP Server\pcoip_server_win32.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Teradici PCoIP Server\svgadevtap.dll

Report Id: e8fdbad1-b572-11e5-8bc5-005056917711

I'm attaching the pcoip_server log as well.  The drop happens in this log at about the 14:14:38 time mark.  The log truncates, and I have added the beginning section of the next log file to the attachment for reference.  Any idea what this could be?  I've seen some posts with this problem but in our case we're using a standard VM on ESXi 5.5 and no GPUs.

Thanks in advance! !

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Probably had to do with length or content so here it is:

We dont want to install the built in remote assistance but would like the ability to use the existing Microsoft remote assistance (Initiate Remote Assistance from a Command Line or a Script). I was able to modify the registry of my admin machine to handle a new protocol handler to support a new href added to C:\Program Files\VMware\HorizonToolbox\HorizonToolbox2.0.1\webapps\toolbox\WEB-INF\templates\console.html in the toolkit.

This is not a secure way of accomplishing this, perhaps you could find something more appropriate.

The registry keys needed on my local admin machine:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\msra]
@="URL:Microsoft Remote Assistance Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\msra\shell]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\msra\shell\open]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\msra\shell\open\command]
@="cmd /C for /F \"delims=: tokens=2\" %%c in (\"%1\") do msra.exe /offerra %%c"

Added the following html to line 142 of console.html:

<a title="Offer MS Remote Assistance" href="msra:{{vm.name}}" target="_blank">{{vm.name}}</a>

If your url tries to connect to "unsafe:msra:vmname" then you'll need to edit the javascript to add the msra protocol handler. I did this on line 124 in C:\Program Files\VMware\HorizonToolbox\HorizonToolbox2.0.1\webapps\toolbox\js\angular.min.js

change https?|ftp|mailto|tel|file to https?|ftp|mailto|msra|tel|file

Of course you need the proper GPO's deployed to offer remote assistance:

System/Remote Assistance

Hello everyone!

Yes, I know that there are many similar discussions about this topics. But anyway I could't find answer for my case.

I have already installed vSphere 5.5 and View 6.0.1.

Recently we received an two graphical blade-servers with GPU: AMD FirePro S4000x.

I we decided to use them in VDI in that way: on ESXi - vSGA.

Sphere 5.5 support an AMD FirePro and there is an driver for that GPU.

I could install it on server without problems.

Problem occur when I compare graphics capabilities between two virtual desktops: simple desktop which is on simple blade without GPU and graphical desktop which is on graphic blade server.

When I try to play an HD video on them - they are looked very similar.

So I don't know what a difference between them?

Yes, on the graphical virtual desktop in vSphere Web-client interface I have already turn on a hardware rendering and 3D capabilities. And on ESXi due command gpuvm I can see that a GPU was used by virtual machine but I can't realise a difference between two machines.

By the way: in graphical virtual desktop in Device manager in Videoadapters I see "VMware 3D SVGA" label that the same on simple VM without graphics. Why?

Hi all,

we are in a multi tenant environment, and obviously we don't want a customer to see the other customers' domains.

The best solution for us would be to modify the domain field, from the drop down menu to a simple text box, is it possible? how can I do that?

if this isn't possible, what is the best way to achieve our goal, keeping in mind that exclude/include domains list isn't applicable in our environment because we don't want to setup a new connection server for every new customer?

thanks a lot

Hi,

I'm trying to use the registry to point the Windows View client to a particular pool with the "DesktopName" entry. Each time I enable this, users who are entitled to log in to the target pools, get a message indicating they are not entitled. ??? All VMs in the pool are available. There are no apparent protocol errors, other than it takes forever to connect to and load a desktop. We're using View client version 3.5.2 build-3150477 on Windows 7 Pro x64 clients configured as VDI endpoints. Any idea what is going on here?

Thanks

Hey all,

I'm looking to remove some replica VMs which I believe are no longer in use. I've tried using KB 2009844 and the SviConfig, FindUnusedReplica operation but have had no luck. I'm pretty sure these are unused due to their age but I was wonder if anyone could point me down a different path?

Thanks,

James

Hi gurus,

We have what I believe is orphaned disks on our datastores for old VDI's that no longer exist. Is there a way to verify that these are in fact orphaned and safely remove them?

Thank you,

James.

In the JSON settings of the Access Points I have "tunnelenabled": true;

And on the associated Connection servers the Access Point config guide recommends not enabling tunneling.

The end result is that traffic is passing through the Access Point and not passing through the Connection Server. The customer wants to keep the absolute minimum for open ports between objects so I want to tunnel the traffic from the Access Points through the connection server and then on the internal virtual and physical machines that have the view agent installed. Even when I check the tunneling options on the connection server it still appears as though traffic is bypassing the connection broker and going straight to the agents.

What configuration change do I need to make to have all traffic pass through both the Access points and associated Connection Servers?

Thanks in advance for any assistance or suggestions -

J