I feel rather bad for not keeping up to date with my VMware communities. Sorry!
The pools I was refering to were non-persistant pools. We have two pools for our students; a library one and one for mobile computing.
Essentially, these sit on rather expensive (and small) SSDs, so to ensure that the VMs don't grow so large that they fill the datastores up I had to come up with a way of refreshing them overnight (when no students are in class).
I have a scheduled task on one of my View connection servers that runs a powershell script, here is a snippet of the code I use:
Write-host "--"
Write-host "Refreshing Pools"
Write-host "--"
$pools = "pool1","pool2"
$datetime = get-date -format "MMMM d yyyy"
$datetime = $datetime + " 22:00"
$logdate = get-date -format yyyy\-MM\-dd
$logfilepath ="C:\Powershell_Logs\"
$logfile =$logfilepath + $logdate + ".txt"
#$logfile
dir $logfilepath |? {$_.CreationTime -lt (get-date).AddDays(-14)} | del | Out-File $logfile -append
foreach ($pool in $pools) {
$timestamp = (get-date).tostring("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
Write-Output "$timestamp Refreshing pool: $pool" | Out-File $logfile -append
Get-DesktopVM -pool_id $pool | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $datetime -forceLogoff $true -stopOnError $true | Out-File $logfile -append
}
$timestamp = (get-date).tostring("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
Write-Output "$timestamp VM's awaiting refresh" | Out-File $logfile -append
Get-DesktopVM -composerTask refresh | select Name | Out-File $logfile -append
Write-Output "" | Out-File $logfile -append
This script gets a list of all VMs in a the pools specified, it then sets them to refresh at 10pm at night. It also logs this activity to a log file.
I do hope this goes some way to making up for my lack of posting.
