Problem about creating pool of VM with View Manager

[jpallanore]

Hello all.

We are currently evaluating VMware View 3.0. During the creation of a pool of 50 VMs, the process stop at 37 VMs. In View Manager, there're 35 VMs with state "Ready" and VM number 36 and 37 with state "Customizing". It's for 1 day that this is this problem.

Also, during the configuration of the pool, I've meant "Number of desktops (available):10" and the system has powered on 35 VMs.

I don't know where is the problem. Anybody would help me please ?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Jean-Philippe

PS : I'm a french student. My english is not perfect.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Welcome to the forums! I have moved your post to the VMware View Manager forum.

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[lbourque]

Linked clones or full VMs from template?

How big is the vSwitch and how many VMs at attached to it?

[hannez]

On what OS is the View server running.

I found out that this issue also occurs when running the View server on a Windows 2008 member server.

It hangs when provisioning > 25-50 desktops.

[jpallanore]

It's linked clones and the vSwitch had 56 ports and now, I've changed at 120 ports. Server is restarted.

The rest of VM is always not created. Where is the problem ?

PS : I use Windows Server 2008 for WMware View and Windows Server 2003 for VirtualCenter.

[hannez]

I think you should switch to Windows 2003 for View server.

Windows 2008 is not supported yet. We found out that this issue occurs on Windows 2008.

When rebuilding a new view server, we tested this on a Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 clean server.

With Windows 2008 the same issue ( hanging when deploying multiple desktops) occurs again.

With Windows 2003 no issues.

[jpallanore]

I've also tested with Windows Server 2003 and no issues.

Thanks for your answers.

PS : At the beginning of installation of View Server on WIndows Server 2008, it should have a error message about Windows Server 2008 is not compatible with View Server.

Thanks and Regards,

Jean-Philippe