I have multiple Horizon view 7.3.2 Environments. Backend vcenter is 6.0.0 7924804 appliance in one environment and the other is 6.5.8815520. In all of our Instant Clone pools instances, they consume a ridiculous amount of cpu and memory.
Does anyone have any insight as to what the fix for this is? These instant clones are both Windows 10 and Windows 7.
We are really at a loss as this was sold as a pretty awesome feature but has created some utilization headaches.
Really banging my head against the wall on this one. I have sporadic issue where when a user logs back in, or unlocks their Windows 7 64-bit virtual desktop the task bar will blank out, and the machine is frozen for 15ish seconds. Have found killing explorer.exe or sending a ctrl+alt+del helps resolve the issue faster, but have been unable to find a root cause.
Environment:
-Horizon 7.4
-View Agent 7.4
-Windows 7 64-bit
-2 vCPU and 6 GB vRAM
-vmxnet 3 NIC
-PCoIP protocol
Items attempted so far:
The problem I am having is it is difficult to troubleshoot as it doesn't happen every time. I see it more when users are switching between dual monitor thin clients to laptops or vice-versa. Logs haven't given me much direction. Anyone else ever experience this?
Attempting to create new pool in View5. I have 2 snapshots of my Win7 VM. Snapshots show up in snapshot manager. This is a simple PoC deploy on and island network without Security and Transfer servers. Sql and odbc connection config operational. Any suggestions?? Thanks.
During push image , we have noticed the following error several times, Any possible root cause ?? Kindly advise
The Horizon version was 7.3.2
Instant clone pool has enabled "reuse Pre-existing computer accounts"
Master image is not joined to domain
Windows 10 1703 build
Thanks
Bala
Here's the issue :
Windows 10
Horizon VMWare Client for Windows 10 downloaded.
Connect and works fine when in focus and stays up on a screen (even multiple monitors).
If out of focus, but still up on one monitor? Still works fine and stays connected
If minimized to the taskbar for anything more than a few seconds, when restored, the client itself will freeze, and eventually state "connection to the server lost", and ask me to relog back in completely to my VMWare.
Can anyone fix this issue? I'm assuming it's a bug of some kind as I see nothing in the settings to stop this?
I have found that on Windows you can brand the Horizon client by replacing viewbanner.bmp with a custom image.
Is it possible to do something similar on a Linux client? I haven't been able to find viewbanner.bmp or anything comparable.
Thanks,
AC
I would like to download .pdf versions of the Horizon View v7.5 documentation. Where can I find this?
Our mobile clinicians switch between their VDI and other iOS apps on their iPads, and it's particularly frustrating to them that they have to logon to the connection server again if they spend a couple minutes in another app and want to go back to their VDI. They have to generate a new RSA token (in another app), come back to Horizon, enter the token, and then also enter domain credentials each time they log on. This is a huge pain to someone not focused on technology.
Is there a way to administratively adjust the disconnect timeout for the iOS app when it's in the background? I don't see it in the settings... (Note that I'm not talking about the Desktop Pool's idle session timeout setting, which is 120 minutes. This is unique to the mobile app.)
If not, any chance we might see this in the future?
I don't want to use PowerShell for View automation. How do I automate Horizon View using python? Is there any python SDK that uses View API's python bindings?
Hello,
Due to some reason, my current Connection Server's IP has to change.
What is the precaution of changing IP for View Connection server?
Can I just change IP address without removing view connection program?
Thank you
I had a few reports of IE crashing for some users. I've found this appears to be happening for a lot of VM's. The logs show the following error:
Faulting application name: IEXPLORE.EXE, version: 11.0.15063.850, time stamp: 0x3173cb3d
Faulting module name: vmwsci.dll, version: 7.2.0.21950, time stamp: 0x5910b368
The faulting module (vmwsci.dll) appears it has to do with the View Agent PCoIP Smart Card Interception. Is that the same thing as the Smarcard Redirection feature? We don't even select this for our View Agent installs. It's happening on various versions of view agent (7.0.3, 7.2). It does appear these errors started to occur right after the July Windows and Office updates.
Can anyone provide step by step guide for How to upgrade Horizon View 7.3.2 standard to latest release Horizon View 7.5.x Enterprise version ?? What is the prerequisites and sequence need to follow during upgrade? Is there any version upgrade path need to follow during upgradation? which components backups and downtime required? etc.
Hi,
Is there any risk enabling View Storage Accelerator in View Configuration/Servers/vCenter Servers in a production environment?
For some reason this is disabled and we would like to have View Storage Accelerator enabled on the vCenter and control Storage Accelerator on Desktop Pool level. We are not using shared storage but local SSD on the hosts.
The Desktop Pools is not configured with Parent VM and Image/Snapshots so it shouldn't be necessary with Recompose for new Replika image on provisioned machines. The pools are configured to provision from Template, Recompose/Refresh is unavailable in this environment.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Kenneth
on Horizon View 5.3.2
I got this warning from "Inventory > View Configuration > Server > Connection Server tabs" One or more View Composer backups failed. See the event log for more details.
But In the event log didn't show any warning. How I fix this problem ?
Thank you
Hello Folks,
I sucessfully install the Linux VMware Horizon View Client version (Mware-Horizon-Client-3.2.0-2331566.x86.bundle) with the '--custom' switch to install to an alternate location (/opt/vmware/view-client).
However, there seems to me something missing during execution. I am only able to start an RDP session. When I go into the properties of the pool, I can't select 'PCOIP'.
I don't have this problem when I install the package in the default location (without '--custom'). Is there a missing library in the executable's path when it's installed in an alternate location? If so, which one??
I need to install in an alternate location, otherwise there's a conflict with VMware-Workstation that is installed on the same machine (Fedora 20 X86-64).
Thank You!
Hello,
So we have been experiencing this issue with remote users connecting to vdi using the Dell 3040's clients. When they try to scan the scanning process goes up to 90% and then it errors out. Sometimes it works just fine, sometimes it scans one page and it errors out on the second page. We have enabled USB and Scanner re-direction, installed the latest printer drivers and latest firmware on the thin client. Also the users has to connect, disconnect and connect again in order for the usb devices to be recognized. Has anyone seen this happen and what was the resolution?
This is a persistent desktop
Horizon View 7.4.0
UEM 9.3
AppVolume 2.13.3.12
AIO HP M476DW
Some of the errors:
Scanner communication cannot be established.....
Hello,
I am in the process of setting up a new VDI environment and having a very hard time with Office 365 account persistence. I am running an instant clone non-persistence desktop pool with Windows 10 Enteprise Build 1709.
I have tried Office 365 builds 1708 and 1803. I have authentication token roaming setup to the UEMProfile network share via GPO and capturing <LocalAppData>\Microsoft\Credentials via UEM (in the Office 2016 Shared Settings template).
Office 365 account persistence works for a bit but then after a while, this happens:
I have tried having these Office 365 builds via App Volume or baked into the master image. Still the same results. I am pulling my hair out on this one.
If I click "Fix Me" I have to sign back into Office 365 or sometimes just reactivate. Shared Computer activation is definitely enabled.
Has anyone ran into this problem? If you don't have this problem and have a similar setup as mine, what Office 365 build are you using? You can find a build history here:
Update history for Office 365 ProPlus (listed by date) | Microsoft Docs
I would appreciate any help on this. My next step is to open a case with VMware if I can't get it resolved. Thank you!!
Hi All,
We currently use VMware Horizon View Client on all our laptops to allow users to connect to our VDI environment. Our laptops are running Windows 10.
As part of our Image deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Horizon Client is installed.
During the Horizon Client install Horizon client forces the machine to reboot causing a dirty deployment message once the machine has started back up again.
I have seen several different topics on this subject but none of the solutions we have tried work. Here is what i have tried;
1. Installing Horizon View Client with the /norestart switch.
2. Creating a script to install all the dependencies ( Visual C++) before Horizon client, also with the /norestart switch.
3. Add all the dependencies into MDT as applications and list them under Horizon Client as required. All still have the /norestart switch.
If I run any scripts manually the machine does not reboot but for some reason it still reboots when the script is ran via MDT. None of the applications in MDT have the (restart required) ticked.
I also kept refreshing the Programs and Features during installation. All of the Visual C++ install fine, Horizon View client also shows up in the programs list but the machine is then force rebooted. After restarting Horizon View is no longer in the programs list and only re-appears after MDT resumes the install.
I'm at a total loss as to why it keeps doing this when all applications and dependencies have the norestart switch.
Would really appreciate any help on the issue and if anybody has managed to deploy via MDT.
Thanks
Hi,
I have to deploy the application pools to the user in VMware Horizon View environment using RDS feature on the Windows Server 2012. When I tried to publish the application I noticed that the icon is a little bit strange.
If I select the application from the lists, the application show up with right icons -- such as (remote desktop, notepad, wordpad, IE, paint)
But if I add the application manually, there are something wrong the application show up only "A" icon. If I add more applications, the icon are the same picture. -- see an attachment below.
Can I change the icon appear on the Horizon View Client ? How can I change it ?
Thanks in advance.
PM
Hello,
vSphere 6.7
Horizon View 7.5.0
Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 1803
I created a pool "Automated Desktop Pool", "Dedicated", "Full Virtual Machines".
Now all VM running, but are stuck in the Customizing State.
How to fix this issue?