topic Re: VDI Desktop is not booting -Repeating going in to PXE in Horizon Desktops and Apps

VDI Desktop is not booting -Repeating going in to PXE

Techstarts — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:28:43 GMT

we are facing strange problem.

User started complaining cannot get their desktop.

when i saw, all VDI desktops are powered off.

When I tried to refresh the VDI image, it simply is booting into PXE.

Any hints in troubleshooting problem

Re: VDI Desktop is not booting -Repeating going in to PXE

sjesse — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:39:02 GMT

When you say PXE, you mean its trying to boot from the network when you look at if from the vsphere console. That to me sounds like the desktop was corrupted from something and needs to be recreated.The refresh option is based of a snapshot,and its possible that snapshot is corrupted. I've seen this with linked clones in the past.

Re: VDI Desktop is not booting -Repeating going in to PXE

BenFB — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:45:21 GMT

Are you seeing this widespread? I've seen this happen a handful of times and either refresh them or deleting and allowing composer to recreate them resolved it.

Re: VDI Desktop is not booting -Repeating going in to PXE

Techstarts — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 06:52:55 GMT

Thank you for your help.

It was noticed that snapshot was corrupted/not working.

we tried with different image, it worked.

So snapshot or something was broken.

But now when we provision VM with same snapshot it is working fine.

I have no clue what has broken.

Re: VDI Desktop is not booting -Repeating going in to PXE

BenFB — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:46:23 GMT

Was the parent modified in any way (renamed, snapshots deleted, etc...)?

Re: VDI Desktop is not booting -Repeating going in to PXE

Techstarts — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:13:22 GMT

Not that I'm aware.

I have checked and answer is not.