Hi all,
I work for a company where an external IT company has setup our view 5.2 implementation and has since gone quite with our support requests.
I am trying to diagnose slow boot times for desktops (10 minutes at times) and would appreciate any help I can get.
In trying to find the issue I have run xperf to log a boot cycle and noted that all the user profile files are been retrieved at each boot even though we have static desktops (not floating) and persona management with persistent disks.
My understanding was persistent disks prevent the view PC from having to pull down the 500mb+ profile/files at each login as its "directly" attached to it. Can someone please clear this up for me?
Other slow processes revolve around printers and Im working on stripping them out now.
Can anyone else recommend where else to start looking to diagnose this?
Thank you
Paul
Well to start View Persona and persistent disk are not one in the same and definitely can be deployed independent of each other. A dedicated desktop utilizing a persistent disk would keep the entire profile local and then the persistent disk would not be subject to a recompose or a refresh so in my opinion there isn't a high need to utilize View persona if you go that route.
View persona uses a GPO to point it to a profile repository on the network and then it will sync between the repository and your local profile. It is supposed to sync on demand to avoid copying down an entire profile at one time.
Is this a case where you can reboot a single desktop and it takes 10 minutes to boot and login? Have you reviewed esxtop to make sure there are no storage performance issues happening during this time?
Thankyou for that, I was not aware they could be run independent. If we find the issue is persona management and disable it, is there a simple way to backup the persistent disks in one hit as you would the network profile directory?
Also yes I can confirm the 10 minute boot is with a reboot of a desktop regardless of the load on the system. I havent checked esxtop (but will) but the log produced by xperf doesnt show any waiting or high loads during the login and vcops is also reporting no issues.
Thankyou
Paul
Do you utilize any type of products to backup your current physical desktops? If so can that transcend into the virtual realm to backup the persistent disk? If that doesn't work can you utilize any storage array tools?
No, we do not backup physical desktops as they we use a limited (25mb) roaming profile with alot of exclusions which causes headaches in itself.
Originally with our view implementation we were using persona's only but we were having issues where files weren't been pulled down quick enough for some of our programs and they were timing out, I can assume the fix was to assign persistent disks to resolve this but the persona was not disabled.
Are you aware how persistent disks are stored? would they be vmdk files that we could simply backup?
Regards,
Paul
