Hello Community,
Is anyone out there using the UniDesk Solution? It sounds like a great solution with regards to the Storage savings and implementing the truly "Persistent" desktop all in one package...
Thanks in advance...
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UniDesk Solution
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How to identify a connection server installed as standard or replica?
For some reason I need to know which of my four connection server was installed as standard server and which others installed as replica server, but I can't find how. Need guidance,thanks!
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Horizon Portal Customization
We would like to modify the Horizon 5.2 View Portal to help our staff better know which horizon client to download without going to the VMware web site. There is lots of good info on how to do this View 5.1 and we have used that our view 5.2 connection server. However we use view security servers and it appear that you can’t modify the Portal on the view security server. Is this correct? It also appears Horizon would prefer you install the HTLM option and use that as the portal. Does anyone have a best practice they use to help clients install the correct view client?
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vSphere Desktop and vCenter Licensing questions! VMware of no help!
All,
I would like to purchase vSphere Desktop Licensing to host 3rd party VDI Workstations. I am not buying vmware View Package bundles.
My questions are:
1) If I buy vSphere Desktop license packs do I also get vCenter Server Standard for Desktop included or is that in the View bundle only? If not included do I need to buy either vCenter Server for Desktop or vCenter Standard license?
2) If I need to buy vCenter Standard does that mean I can host VDI Workstations as well as Servers on different Hosts but same vCenter Server?
3) If I buy vSphere Desktop license packs is there a limit on amount of hardware I can run (cores,sockets or physical servers)?
4) If I can only run VDI Workstations under this vCenter and vSphere Desktop combo what management Servers qualify to run under same vCenter?
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Changing Replica Path for Linked Clones After Changing "Seperate Datastores for Replica and OS" Setting in View Admin
I've tested this and it works but I wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason I should avoid doing it since I saw no official way of changing the replica location of a linked clone other than recomposing. We are on View 5.1 currently.
I had a pool of persistent desktops that were initially NOT set with the "Select separate datastores for replica and OS disk."
Since this occurred when we just started using the system we didn't understand that meant a replica would be created for every datastore it put one of the VMs from the pool on.
Now I've set the setting in the pool to select separate datastores, but I see it does not affect linked-clones already created.
So I modified the two .VMDK files (<VMname>.vmdk and <VMname>-digest.vmdk) that contain the "parentFileNameHint=" property on one of the VMs in the pool and successfully got it to use the replica located on the datastore I wanted them all pointing to.
So what I plan on doing is manually going through all the linked clones and point them to the single replica on the single datastore I want using that same method.
I've seen no ill effects from this. I tried refreshing the desktop and it worked fine and continued pointing to the right replica.
Does anybody know of a good reason to not do this?
Thanks!
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NO Parent VM in vcenter settings
Hi ,
I am trying to do a POC for VMware view 5.2 .My installation description is as follows: I have setup the all the components of view horizon separately on windows 2008r2.
VM1-->Composer : Win2008R2
VM2-->Connection Server : Win2008R2
VM3--->Security Server: WIN2008R2
VM4--->SQl 2008 express edition.
ESXI Server 5.2 under which Vcenter Serve appliance
on the same ESXI server i have created a WIN2008R2 golden image with VMtools, End user Experinace & view agent installed.Created a snapshot as well and saved.
When i go to view and add the on pools as everything goes fine when we come under vcenter settings and while browse the parent VM i am unable to see the VM snapshot.
kindly help me as i am stuck on the same.
Regards,
Victor
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Virtualizing applications
This might open a huge can of worms but ..... our environment has gotten to the point where installing applications in the master images is causing some serious bloat and pool-sprawl (specific pools created for specific apps). We recently upgraded to View 5.2 and use Persona Management and we are looking for a solution that will let us do the following.
- Virtualize a large number of applications easily
- quickly deploy apps to different groups of people with an easy to use management interface
- give the end user some flexibility with installing apps/drivers into their non-persistent linked clone desktops
We have a license for ThinApp but our consultant showed it to us and it doesn't seem to fit the bill. We've seen other products from companies like Liquidware Labs and UniDesk and were wondering what others out there suggest. I want to get back to managing the infrastructure side of things and hand a tool over to the desktop support folks so they can manage virtual desktops like they do the physical desktops. 
Thanks
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View 5.2 DNSRR certificate error - man in the middle
Hi,
Short question you guys surely know the solution too
I wrote a blog about an issue I'm experiencing, http://vthoughtsofit.blogspot.nl/2013/10/vmware-view-certificate-revocation.html
We have troubleshooted all I can think of right now but still running is circles when it comes to a solution.\
Could you guys and girls look at my blog and see if you have any idea what might cause this?
We're using View 5.2 with DNSRR as load balancing for the Connection server, the clients are non-domain joined Windows Thin clients.
hope you can help me out.
Greetings
Rob
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Petition towards a Linux View Agent - Sign/drop a line if interested!!
In this community you can find a couple of threads where people are asking the development of a View Linux agent.
This agent would make the option of a linux desktop pool in View manager available.
I understand this is not as easy as it sounds, there are many linux distro's and technical difficulties to achieve this goal.
On top of that, if we ever get this agent, we will expect it to works as good as the Windows version, have PCOIP and USB redirection, ...
Therefor I would like to make a suggestion to VMware to develop a virtual appliance where one or two of the most used linux distro's are prepared by VMware. Limited support is acceptable if you tampered with the virtual appliance and broke the view addon. In my opinion Ubuntu LTS is a strong candidate to have such a virtual appliance.
I ask everyone who would like to see this suggestion developed to drop a line in this thread AND sign the petition.
"I second the request" would be enough to let VMware know how many of you are out there requesting this feature.
SPREAD THE WORD AND SIGN!!
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Local mode and 3d rendering
Hi
Does anyone know if you can check out a desktop that is configured for 3d rendering , either automatic / software or hardware ?
Rgds
M
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Unable to Access desktop by HTML . Error: Desktop display protocal doesn't support
Hi ,
I am trying to do a POC for VMware view 5.2 .My installation description is as follows: I have setup the all the components of view horizon separately on windows 2008r2.
VM1-->Composer : Win2008R2
VM2-->Connection Server : Win2008R2
VM3--->Security Server: WIN2008R2
VM4--->SQl 2008 express edition.
ESXI Server 5.2 under which Vcenter Serve appliance
I have installed the necessary components on the parent VM , i have followed the document for installing the components, such as i installed in the below fashion:
1 VM ware tools.
2 View Agent
3 BLAST/HTML access.
but still when i am trying to access the desktop via HTML , the page opens .....username and password accepted when i click on the windows 7 desktop icon it throws out an error as
" The desktop display protocol doesn't support".
please help
Regards,
Victor
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Desktop not saving changes for End users
End users make changes to their desktops like rearranging icons and grouping them according to how they feel fit. But, the next day when they boot up these changes are reset. Is there a way to make these changes stay?
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Persistent disk and random deletion
Dear View developers and View users,
Is there a switch in VMware View that disabled persistent disk deletion or some similar functionality?!
It is just so hard to explain to the end users that their data was just deleted (not even a good reason can be given: recompose failed and error state occured, etc.). And View does this often without any warning or possibility for the admin to prevent this.
My suggestion: add an option to globally disable persistent data disk deletion (or delete them after 1 week or so...) and spare the administrators the frustrations when end user persistent(!) data disk is just deleted for some weird reason, when View feels like it: somewhere between failed recompose - error state...
We do user data backups but still, why is View treating persistent data disk with so little care...
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Horizon View Keyboard and Mouse issues
Hello VMware enthuiasts,
Lately, I've been having some keyboard and mouse trouble when using a Virtual Desktop on Horizon View 5.2. I use a Dell M4400 laptop to connect to a Virtual desktop and everything works fine for a limited time.
When you are on the VM it seems like it's frozen but it's not. The mouse moves but clicks are not working and the keyboard does. If I go back to the Hosting OS (laptop) the mouse is working like a charm but the keyboard doesn't.
And everytime I type something on the laptop it appears on the VM. It's aweird bug.
Here are the things that I tried:
1) Uninstalling the Dell touch pad driver.
2) Updating all Dell drivers on the laptop
3) Using the latest version of View client 5.4
4) Looking at VMware log files... But nothing.
5) Editing VM settings (CPU Cores, RAM)
I did some research on the Internet but the only thing I found was a similar problem with mouse clicks not working on VMware fusion.
Has anyone ever had this problem?
Thanks for your help!
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View 5.2 Blast Web Client
Hello All,
We are doing an implementation and are configuring the 5.2 web interface/blast. Everything seems to be working just fine but have one concern. The configuration required us to open on our external firewall the 8443 TCP port. So we now have two ports open for this service to work. 443 & 8443. What we found before opening the 8443 port was the login web site running on port 443/HTTPS would redirect to a URL with the 8443 in it trying to launch the desktop. Is it possible to make this entire configuration ride on HTTPS/443, so we only have one port open externally.
Been unable to find anyone else that has asked this question or perhaps I am just totally missing the documentation on this somewhere.
Thanks,
-DS
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VMware View with mixed processors on hosts
Hi there
I have a customer with an existing vmware view environment. the hosts are 3 year old AMD servers, which will be replaced in the next years.
because of better performance, we will switch from AMD to Intel.
We have one parent desktop image in one automated floating pool with linked clones.
when you start windows on a new cpu architecture, you will get an message that the hardware has changed an you have to restart.
so now is the question how this reacts, when you use quickprep.
has anybody experiences with that? is this working or is the deployment process failing?
regards from vmworld barcelona
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View Environments for Developers
Wondering if anybody has experience in deploying View environments for developers, specifically .NET developers. Wondering which route you chose to go, linked clone vs full desktop, why, and how it's working for you.
We're looking at deploying linked clones for remote developers to prevent us from deploying any physical hardware for them.
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Horizon View menu issues in VM
Hello.
I've been trying to figure out an issue with VMs generated by Horizon View. One of our applications has issues rendering menus. When I click on File and move my pointer down to choose anything, the menu disappears as I move the pointer down. If I move the mouse to where Exit is, when I click it, nothing happens because the menu is no longer there.
The same issue shows up when right clicking on items within this app, I find an asset, right click on it (say I want to rename it) and when I move my pointer anywhere on the menu it disappears. I have been doing some tests and here is what I know so far.
When creating the master image, the application works 100% fine prior to the installation of the View agent. With just vmware tools installed I can open the app and the menus behave as expected.
I have tried view agents 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 in both 32 and 64 bit Windows 7.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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Remote Desktop Gaming
Hello everyone,not sure if im posting in the right section but w/e.
My problem is this:I have 2 PCs,1 gaming and 1 slow
my gaming one uses Windows 7 SP1 ->HOST
the slow one uses XP SP3 ->CLIENT
Both are connected in LAN 100mbit only
My brother wants to play games together with me,but his "slow" pc won't run anything.So i need to make a remote connection from his pc to mine.
I already made a VM on the host using VMware workstation,I made a remote connection from his pc to the VM via Splashtop and it works fine for browsing/movies/hd content but it sux in games,so im looking for something that will give me a better performance. I have just downloaded Vmware horizon view client but idk how to work with it,will it do the job,please help me out guys!Also there are some Sharing VMs and some network stuff in vmware workstation,i have no idea whats all about.Give me step by step tutorial if possible thank you!
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vSphere 5.5
Per the interopertability matrix vSphere 5.5 is supported with View 5.2 but I can't seem to find a listing of what features are and are not supported between the two.
For example Storage vMotion is not supported with View
The read ahead cache not supported.
vSphere 5.5 has a lot of cool features, but I would like to know what I can't use with my desktop stuff.
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