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Balancing VDI storage during provisioning

February 16, 2018, 2:58 pm
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Storage rebalance helps to balance the Linked Clones across Datastores post provisioning. However I'm trying to control the Linked clone distribution on a specific Datastore during new vdi provisioning. I know its not availalbe out of the box., so here's what I'm thinking:

 

1. To the pool, add new DS1 count of vdis say #4. Enable provisioning.

2. Post completion, remove DS1 from vcenter setttings and add DS2, increase count to 8. Enable provisioning

 

This way it would ensure that 4 VDIs are created per datastore ie 1 replica mapped evenly to 4 VDIs.

 

Any reason why this should not work?

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Datastore Clean-up Question

February 19, 2018, 9:32 am
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We are running Horizon View 7.0.1.

 

I was looking in a datastore that is exclusive to linked clones.  I noticed all these folders with log files for linked clones that no longer exist.  I checked the ADAM database and found no information on the machines.  Should I run an SviConfig cleanup or could I just delete the folders?  I should say that the machines do not show up in View Administrator.

 

Thanks for the help.

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Troubleshooting Blast through UAG

January 13, 2018, 4:23 am
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Hi

 

I am having problems with Bast connections through my UAG, I am just finishing off a deployment so its not yet work

 

When i try to connect through the UAG

 

In the client i don't get an error , it just spins for 10 seconds and then goes back to the pool selection screen

 

in the admin console on the connection server it allocates me a vdi in the events log

 

Is there a way to trouble shoot bast connectivity through the chain ?

 

it works fine over vpn or internally so in my mind it must be either firewall , the uAG tunnel or SSL error

 

to add my internal dns is different to my external , i am using a wildcard for the external dns all the way through to my connection server and it looks ok

 

PCOIP is working fine also

 

Thanks

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Certificate question

February 18, 2018, 11:48 am
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Hi,

 

We a configuring a Horizon View in a closed network, no access to internet.

I was wondering about the certificate that is created under installation, as I understand this certificate should be replaced since this system will be production.

Do we need to create a own CA system within our domain for this ? Or is it possible to create a CSR and request some kind of certificate from a certificate vendor like godaddy.com ? or will this fails since we don`t have access to internet and it will then not be able to verify the chain ?

 

I don`t have much knowledge when it comes to certificates

 

Thanks for reply

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Compute mode vs graphics

February 16, 2018, 4:52 pm
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Hi,

 

I need some help to understand computemode.

Today we have a test system with Nvidia M60 card, and we have been running it in graphics mode, and added several different profiles to ESXi VM`s and that has been working well.

 

Now we have a customer wanting to test this system in Compute mode instead, so we have changed it with the switch mode command and that`s seems ok. But what I now don`t understand is, should we add profiles to the VM`s or should they use regular VMware VGA card ? They are going to test some applications on CentOS, not quite sure what applications, but it uses Compute mode they said.

The reason I am wondering about the profiles, is because I tried to boot one of the VM`s after we changed ESXi host to compute mode, and they fail to boot with the error "Could not initialize plugin '/usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so' for vGPU"

 

Please explain what I am missing here, and the concept around compute mode.

 

Thanks for reply.

 

Regards

Andreas

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Location based Printing based on AD group instead of IP

February 21, 2018, 2:46 pm
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Is it possible to manage what printers users see automatically in their view desktops where the following is true:

 

* floating desktops, all on same DHCP scope. cannot be organized into pools based on location on campus.

* 400+ printers are all over the place, multiple buildings, floors, wings.

* printer IPs are not organized by location

* printers would be have an AD object that is a mapped to a security group

* users who are a member of said security group would see that one, along with any others in their printer list upon logging into a random floating desktop. the idea is that users are typically in certain areas

* will printer default settings a user sets up be retained somehow? in persona profile share?

 

latest version of view.

 

thanks! trying to understand the location based printing document.

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Replicating appstack between DCs

February 20, 2018, 5:31 am
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I was reading documentation about appstacks and non-attachable storage, but I still don't really know how to move appstack between DCs. If I have FC storage then I can not present a lun to both datacentres that are on different continents with only IP connectivity.
So I guess that you need some storage which support array level replication over IP so you basically have non-attachable storage LUN that is in each DC presented from local array.

Other two options that comes to mind are:

- use some SW like veeam and replicate appstack VMDKs. Can you even replicate VMDKs that are not part of a VM ?

- use some VM where you do NFS export which is then mounted on vsphere in both DCs. This is questionable how would NFS datastore work over something like 200ms latency.

 

Any better ideas ?

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Using Windows Folder Redirection with View Persona

February 21, 2018, 2:40 pm
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Customer has an interesting design goal:

 

* keep view desktop profiles on one share, to manage things like outlook, user experience, etc.

* have their major folders point to the same location they use when the log into a normal desktop/laptop via the Home Drive feature in AD. Apparently they use both.

**** for example: Documents, Desktop, Favorites

 

Since the View Persona folder redirection GPO only works by using a UNC path they cannot use this without a TON of GPOs because there are probably 50 different home drive paths in place at the large customer. the View persona setting doesn't have a table to map users to different paths. however in windows AD folder redirection you can point it to the home drive letter is my understanding.

 

The idea is they log into any floating desktop (non-persistent) and they get the same desktop experience on all View Desktops and when they open Documents for example they see all the files they normally see from their laptop. These of course are just pointed to a network path, of which there are over 50 across all users.

 

Most people get the same drive letter (H:) but they all point to many places.

 

Can you exclude those folders from redirection in view persona GPO and then turn on folder redirection in windows setting instead? hopefully this makes sense.

 

what settings specifically would I enable for this?

 

this is latest version of horizon view

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"The External URL must not be load balanced." - What does it mean ?

February 21, 2018, 3:03 pm
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Based on all documentation you clearly CAN load balance view connection servers or security servers.

So why is there warning like:

 

and same for Blast or PCoIP protocols.

 

What is the true meaning or intention of this warning ?

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UAG external load balancing

February 21, 2018, 3:22 pm
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I'm reading this document: Load Balancing across VMware Unified Access Gateway Appliances and wondering what is practical difference between:

a) Method 3 - Multiple VIPs (from document)

 

b) Having two UAGs on different IPs with different FQDNs (A records), without any LB. Users are accessing it via CNAME so they still have single URL and a simple load balancing via round robin is performed.

 

 

Drawbacks for method B can be further eliminated by using e.g. f5 gtm or similar solution. Am I missing something here, but I really don't see use for LB (ltm like) in front of UAG.

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os permissions for View 6.2 PowerCLI scripts

February 20, 2018, 3:45 am
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Hi,

 

I cannot find information about Windows os permissions nedded for running Horizon View 6.2 PowerCLI scripts.

 

When a user have Local Administrators permission it works well.

 

But when a user don't have Local Administrators permission it ends with following error:

 

View Server connect FAILED

    + CategoryInfo          : NotInstalled: (vmware.view.powershell.cmdlets.GetUser:GetUser) [Get-User], Exception

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

    + PSComputerName        : xxxxxxx

 

Does anybody know what minimum os permissions is needed for running Horizon View 6.2 PowerCLI scripts?

 

Thanks for any help.

Pavel

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Size of VCSA appliance for View

February 23, 2018, 10:23 am
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Hi. We are starting a View 7 deployment as a pilot to hopefully go production. We only have 1,000 View licenses now. But I imagine that would expand. When I deploy the VCSA v6.5 appliance, do I still choose the size of the appliance based the number of possible desktop vms we may have at one time? We have the Enterprise license so we do play on using Instant Clones.

 

Our computer vCenter infrastructure uses all Medium deployments. I am just thinking if I ever go over 4,000 View licenses if I would need the Large vCenter deployment. Thanks,,,

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viewdbchk on Horizon 7.3.2

February 20, 2018, 4:36 am
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We use viewdbchk every now and again to cleanup pools in Horizon, when the View Admin console is having issues doing such. Just like everyone else. However, since the move to 7.3.2, we can't seem to run it.

 

According to the release notes there was a change:

 

  • In Horizon 7 version 7.2 or later, the viewDBChk tool will not have access to vCenter or View Composer credentials and will prompt for this information when needed.

 

This is fine, we know what credentials to use. When we run the command though ("viewdbchk --removeMachine --machineName Xyz --noErrorCheck"), and are prompted for our service account password for vCenter (https://vcenter.fqdn:443/dsk) and for Composer (https://composer.fqdn:18443), when we enter, no characters show not even masked (this might be by design), and when we hit enter to confirm anyway, we are greeted with "ERROR: Cannot get password for user "service_account".

 

We know the password, we even tested it separately. Anything we can provide within the command differently perhaps?

 

Thanks in advance.

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2-way forest trust - domain status error detected

February 22, 2018, 5:25 am
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I have established 2-way forest trust between existing forest containing view servers and everything and a second forest which hold some of the users.

However it seems to not be working.

 

 

In the logs I see the following error:

<WSWinAuthDomainTimerThread> [ws_winauth] OpenObject could not bind to LDAP://<my domain>/rootDSE (0x000000008007203B (A local error has occurred.))

 

 

The trust itself seems to work fine since I can login into Windows servers in either forest using credentials from another forest.

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Confining View to one monitor not two

October 30, 2014, 11:43 am
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Hi everyone, I am running Horizon View for Mac.  I have an iMac with an attached external monitor.  I like to run View full screen, but when I do it by default takes over the second screen as well.  I have tried to use Windows Control panel in the VM to remove the 2nd display entirely, but I cannot seem to do that.  Can anyone help me figure out how to limit View to just one display while still running it in full screen mode on that display?  Thanks.

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MultiScreen

February 27, 2018, 3:03 am
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Hello,

 

I'm using Horizon View 7.X and Windows Server 2016 RDS Host to publish session for my users.

I would know how to restrict Horizon Client to use only 1 monitor if users get 2+ monitors instead of using all monitors by default.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Benjamin.

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Deploying UAG 3.x using powershell with PKCS#12 certificate fails

May 23, 2017, 3:40 pm
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I was delighted to see that UAG 3.0 now has support for certificates in PKCS#12 format. Unfortunately trying to deploy a UAG with my PFX file fails with "Error: The specified PFX certificate file is invalid". I can convert the PFX to PEM and successfully deploy the UAG. If I try to then replace the cert using the swagger UI it fails with "Alias provided does not exist in the keystore. Provide one from the list".

 

The PFX contains the private key, device, intermediate and root certificate. I'm specifying an alias which is the friendly name of the device certificate.

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Skye status intermittently stuck on "Away" with Blast Extreme through UAG

June 21, 2017, 8:46 am
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We are seeing an intermittent issue with remote users using Blast Extreme through a UAG where Skype thinks the user is still Away. You can not manually set it to Available and the Skye client must be quit and relaunched to set the status properly.

 

When a user connects internally with a Dell Wyse P25/5030 zero client using PCoIP it works as expected. Skype properly detects the user is connected and sets the status to Available.

 

We are running Horizon 7.1, Horizon Agent 7.1 on Windows 7, UAG 3.0, Horizon Client 4.5.1, Lync 2013 Standard Edition and Skype for Business 2016.

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Windows 10 v1607 VDI vm3dmp.sys BSOD

October 5, 2017, 6:45 am
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Yesterday I was suddenly disconnected from my Windows 10 v1607 VDI and when reconnecting was just seeing a black screen.

After about 1-2 minutes or so I was able to reconnect & noticed it had rebooted prompting me to check Event Log for gems:

 

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0xffffe0fe07a00000, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff80ee2d55760). A dump was saved in: C:\windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: bf05cd81-5e7d-4190-93af-dab35bee3049.

 

The MEMORY.DMP suggests vm3dmp.sys was the faulting module (process: VMBlastW.exe).

 

Thought's on how best troubleshoot this further?

 

Environment:

  • ESXi 6.5.0, 4564106
  • Horizon View 7.2.0 build-5735293
  • VM: Windows 10 v1607 without GPU attached (2 vCPUs, 12GB)
  • Using Blast
  • USB auto connect enabled
  • Dual monitor setup with display scaling enabled
  • No writable volumes; No AppVolumes

 

The full details of the analysis are in the file attached to avoid 4 screens of text; happy to paste text if requested.

 

Te computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0xffffe0fe07a00000, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff80ee2d55760). A dump was saved in: C:\windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: bf05cd81-5e7d-4190-93af-dab35bee3049.

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DPI Synchronization vs. Display Scaling

February 27, 2018, 5:34 pm
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Hello,

 

Seeing an interesting issue and I want to know if anyone is experiencing the same thing. In our environment we have a GPO that disables DPI Synchronization. When connecting from a high resolution device such as a Surface Book, everything looks really tiny. Even with Allow Display Scaling checked. If we toggle Display Scaling off and back on it scales as expected. If you log off and back on you again, need to toggle display scaling off and on. We are using the 4.7 Horizon Client and the 7.3.1 Horizon Agent. We notice this on both Windows 7 and Windows 10 VM's.

 

If we use DPI Synchronization alone it effects the performance of the VM. Mouse moves slower and graphics are not a crisp.

 

Thanks

 

Jeff

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