View 5.3 Recompose issue - Boot order of HD changes

[tannerp00]

I recently inherited a VMware View 5.3 environment and I have an issue when I recompose the systems.  I can deploy a new VM from a recent snapshot but every time I recompose the desktops the HD boot order changes in the BIOS and the system cannot boot until I manually modify the order.   I tried to recompose the system to the previous snapshot and had the same issue.  Thoughts?

[Gaurav_Baghla]

My first Wild Guess is a Replica Problem Refer to this for a complete Lifecycle

VMware KB: Linked-clone lifecycle in VMware View Manager 4.5 and later releases

Create a new Snapshot of the Parent Image and Try to 2 things

1)Create a Test pool with one test desktop. Doe it work ???

2)recompose an existing Desktop against that Snapshot.

3)Also What is the Scsi Controller?

[tannerp00]

1)Create a Test pool with one test desktop. Doe it work ???

     I can deploy new desktops with the snapshot, but I cannot recompose with it which was the same as before.  I am still having the issue where the HD boot order gets modified.
    
2)recompose an existing Desktop against that Snapshot.

     I recomposed an existing desktop, that is part of a separate pool and parent VM, with the same snapshot I used in step 1 above and it was successful.  

3)Also What is the Scsi Controller?

     LSI Logic SAS, same as the other desktops.

[Gaurav_Baghla]

Can you attach the latest Log file that has the failiure from composer machine C:\ProgramData\VMware\View Composer\Logs\

[tannerp00]

Attached

[Gaurav_Baghla]

This does not have the failure

[tannerp00]

Yeah, I know.  I have opened a case with VMware to straighten this out.

[tannerp00 · Accepted solution]

I was able tor resolve the issue by deleting the CDROM drive from the parent image and adding it back in.  It appears to have been an issue with a virtual hardware upgrade that was done some time ago but was never cleaned up.   Once I added the new CDROM drive I took a new snapshot.  I had to remove the desktops and have them rebuilt with this new snapshot.  Once they were rebuilt I could recompose with no issues.