Rolling out View and have hit a snag.
Our pools are configured to suspend when not in use. Our desktop environment is the same way, but we have the ability to wake them up when we need to access them to install software, etc.
I can't find an efficient method to "wake" or Power On a VM that has been suspended by View Horizon.
What I do:
I don't want to extend this procedure to our desktop support staff. I'm confused why View Administrator does not power on the machine when you put it in Maintenance Mode, or give an option to power it on from there.
I dug around the net looking for waking and dealing with powered off VMs but didn't find much.
Am I missing something?
Are others using "Ensure Powered On", instead of suspend?
Thanks,
We have our pools (non-persistent linked clones that get refreshed on logoff) set to take no power action. vCenter will power on/off machines as needed. I have the number of spare (powered on) machines set to 20 in my environment.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of that feature. I set these pools to suspend, to prevent them from draining resources away from the hosts when not in use.
These pools all support a test domain, and the machines are rarely in use at the same time. My thought was that allowing them to power down when not used, would allow us to fit more machines on a host.
What is the purpose of the "Remote Desktop Power Policy"?
What advantages are gained by setting to "Suspend" or "Power Off"?
Thanks!
>> What is the purpose of the "Remote Desktop Power Policy"?
This policy allows administrator to decide to save power, when machines are idle for a specified amount of time. Assume, it is a vSphere cluster, of 4 or 5 hosts. On the weekend, if such policy got applied to mass amount of Virtual desktops, (Suspend or Poweroff) so much power can be saved and , if possible we can automatically put a vSphere host into standby mode. In large enterprises and scale level setup this will be a huge power saving.
>>> What advantages are gained by setting to "Suspend" or "Power Off"?
Simple... similar advantage gets from Laptop, putting into sleep by closing its lid, instead of shutdown.
VMs are bypassed normal boot process, and restored the state from a suspended one.
Right, but at the same time, I don't put my laptops and desktops to sleep with no way for the support staff or end users to wake them up and access them remotely. And I have maintenance windows where these machines are all woke up in order to apply patching and other operations. Doesn't seem like that's an option with VMware View. Only option is to leave them all on, all of the time.
Yes, some what true. But i wouldn't say that is something impossible.
If you are keen on bringing them up on demand (for other operations), you can look for leveraging View PowerShell APIs.
Again, agree with you that, it will have its own limitations.
Ok, thank you. You can close this case.
-Matt
