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Hi everyone, i have this question for you i've always been curious about and now that i need to actually implement this it's time to get to an answer We have to run a pilot for 200 VDI u... See more...
Hi everyone, i have this question for you i've always been curious about and now that i need to actually implement this it's time to get to an answer We have to run a pilot for 200 VDI users. We have our project all decided but one aspect is not so clear to me: how to meet IOPS requirement i have been given. For example: let's say that a consultant using the View Flash Calculator tells you that you need to support a total of 11200 frontend IOPS and a total of 20800 backend IOPS how would you provision your storage side? How many spindles and what type/rpm/technology? In other words, how do you do the math to know this in advance? For what i know most people recommends to consider VDI workload as 8K 80% writes and 20% reads 100% random. It would be easy to measure with Iometer if i already have the storage part, but what if i have to actually go and buy something? (a dedicate storage array or adding spindles to a present one) Also, how do you count in cache size? It really speeds things up but i can't tell in advance how many cache hits i will have so i figured i will have to consider the worst scenario and provision like the workload would hit the disks all the time. Thinking about this made me a little confused, leaving alone the frontend/backend storage IOPS part which is a little obscure to me by itself... How do you guys do this?
The biggest complain about thinapped packaged is the lack of right-click context menus while working in Windows Explorer. The biggest complain about a package missing the native functionality ... See more...
The biggest complain about thinapped packaged is the lack of right-click context menus while working in Windows Explorer. The biggest complain about a package missing the native functionality is WinRAR, as you can do a bunch of things i cannot replicate using the document  linked here: http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2011/04/adding-shell-extensions-to-thinapp-packages.html I found a post in the community here (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1850229) that seems promising, but i was not able to replicate the situation explained. I'm not looking for ways to add some functionality, i want full shell extention just as WinRAR was installed natively... is it even possible? Things like "extract here" or "extract to <directory>" or selecting multiple files and right-clicking you have the option to make a rar file without even opening WinRAR itself are all functionalities that users are not willing to give up. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
This is useful if you want to move the profile of a user from his physical box to the virtual one, but in my case all users are already virtual and I want to move their profile to a network share... See more...
This is useful if you want to move the profile of a user from his physical box to the virtual one, but in my case all users are already virtual and I want to move their profile to a network share with Persona Management without running again in the same issue I described in the post. Maybe I could copy the profile in the network share AND THEN activate Persona Management...
i'm quite sure that answers will vary depending on the situation and this is why i am a bit puzzled when i read that various people online say things like "vdi users are 80% read 20% writes" and ... See more...
i'm quite sure that answers will vary depending on the situation and this is why i am a bit puzzled when i read that various people online say things like "vdi users are 80% read 20% writes" and then you find someone else saying the opposite. Surprises me that VMware has an official paper following the same line. Anyway, the scenario i am facing is about 100 office users, basically outlook, word, excel and browsing the internet. My problem is that the IT Manager wants to use 12 SAS 15k disks and i am not so sure they will be enough... so i am trying to find resources to suggest him a more correct sizing about the number of spindles. Since users are very basic in needs he's not so willing to run a POC, he just wants me to tell him what to do...
Hi, i'm trying to find an answer to this but every time i look to an online resource, wheater VMware or others, i find very different answers. I was directed many times to read "Storage Con... See more...
Hi, i'm trying to find an answer to this but every time i look to an online resource, wheater VMware or others, i find very different answers. I was directed many times to read "Storage Considerations for VMware View Best Pactices" where in this documents it is clearly stated how users on average are 80% Read and 20% Write operations; it is also stated after calculation that 20 Windows 7 generate approximately 112 IOPS. I checked many other sources because the above one seemd a little "optimistic" to me, so i would like to know what is your opinion and your experiences about this kind of sizing exercise. What i need to know exactly is how many 15K hdd do i have to buy to support 100 users. Thanks a lot!
Hi, we upgraded from View 4.6 to 5.0.1 and we want to implement Persona Management. I've tried to test the configuration on my virtual desktop but even if i succeded i ended up with a blank... See more...
Hi, we upgraded from View 4.6 to 5.0.1 and we want to implement Persona Management. I've tried to test the configuration on my virtual desktop but even if i succeded i ended up with a blank profile loosing all my desktop files and such, probably because in the network path there was no profile so it created a empty one and synched it over mine. Now i would like to know if there are some guidelines on how to implement this without impacting on user environments that are already populated with customizations that i have to maintain at all costs. The desired result is to have a copy of the profile on a network share for backup reason. No need for folder redirection or anything else. Can you help me with this? Thank you!
Hello, i am experiencing this issue with redirected printers from my Windows 7 box when i connect to my virtual desktop using VMware View Client; the virtual desktop is also Windows 7 in which... See more...
Hello, i am experiencing this issue with redirected printers from my Windows 7 box when i connect to my virtual desktop using VMware View Client; the virtual desktop is also Windows 7 in which i can find all the printers assigned to the virtual desktop plus the same printers with a # in the end which i think it means are redirected from my physical box and on of them is set as default every time i connect. Applications like Acrobat Reader and such crash when one of these printers are set as defaut, sometimes even just if they are installed. Since i am already assigning printers to Virtual Desktop i don't need to have them redirected from the physical box, but i haven't been able to find a way to avoid that apart uninstalling them in the physical box. I tried to play a little bit with the following GPOs without luck so far: Computer Configuration --> Administrative Template --> Windows Components --> Remote Desktop Services --> Remote Desktop Session Host --> Printer Redirection --> Do not set default client printer to be default printer in a session Computer Configuration --> Administrative Template --> Windows Components --> Remote Desktop Services --> Remote Desktop Session Host --> Printer Redirection --> Do not allow client printer redirection Maybe these are not processed when using PCoIP or maybe i am appliyng them in the wrong place... anyone can halp me with that? Thank you. Infrastructure Details vCenter 4.1 ESXi 4.1 Update 2 View 5.0.1 Virtual Desktop: Windows 7 SP1 Connecting Client: Windows 7 SP1
Yes of course i check, as written above and it listens only on port 80 TCP. Anyway, i forced to accept connection on SSL only, restarted the view service on all view connections servers and no... See more...
Yes of course i check, as written above and it listens only on port 80 TCP. Anyway, i forced to accept connection on SSL only, restarted the view service on all view connections servers and now it does listen on both ports. Weird. Anyone can answer question number 2?
Hello, we are running a small POC with View 4.6 and we are very happy about it. The setup consist of very few users in different positions in the company (about 10 now) to test the behavior a... See more...
Hello, we are running a small POC with View 4.6 and we are very happy about it. The setup consist of very few users in different positions in the company (about 10 now) to test the behavior and a single View Connection Server; we are about to upgrade to View 5 and so, to guarantee continuity to our users and learn how to perform this kind of task for the future we wanted to add a replica server for being able to upgrade without disruption. We did install the replica and even if it works i can't connect to the replica server with HTTPS but only HTTP and i can't understand why. The original Connection Server does let me choose from the client and it works with both protocols and in fact i can see it's listening on both ports using netstat while the replica server only listens on port 80 only. Windows firewall is down at the moment to facilitate troubleshooting. The replica server VM has been deployed using the same template of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (ENG) as the original connection server. In the view manager we are not forcing the HTTPS connection. We are not tunnelling connections through the server at the moment and we are interested to keep working this way. We are using PCoIP. Here's my questions: 1. Is there any reason why the replica server doesn't allow me to connect using SSL? 2. Since we intend to load balance the two servers, is there a way to see which users are connected to which server if we are not tunnelling connections? (i've noticed that if we tunnell connections the field "Security Server" gets populated in each row of each client in the View Manager but if we don't tunnell connection it just remains blank) Thanks for your help in advance
Thank you again!
I can confirm the vApps were the problem. I reconfigured the resourced pools previously configured, rebooted the view manager and now it's working again. I awarded the points to Mike Pryor an... See more...
I can confirm the vApps were the problem. I reconfigured the resourced pools previously configured, rebooted the view manager and now it's working again. I awarded the points to Mike Pryor and i thank him for his support as much as all the others who helped. Last thing i would like to know is if i can put vCenter in a vApp leaving all the other View machines in a resource pool or if this will still cause problems. Thanks again.
Sounds like the reason it's not working anymore... Do you have a procedure to rebuild the index in vCenter inventory anyway? Sounds it might be helpful to know it. I'll start reconfiguring... See more...
Sounds like the reason it's not working anymore... Do you have a procedure to rebuild the index in vCenter inventory anyway? Sounds it might be helpful to know it. I'll start reconfiguring right now putting back the Resource Pools and see what happens. I will report ASAP.
Everything is normal in vCenter. How do i rebuild the inventory?
I've been told yesterday the resource pools have been replaced with vApps because they wanted to leverage the start order feature. I checked and all permissions have been retained even from th... See more...
I've been told yesterday the resource pools have been replaced with vApps because they wanted to leverage the start order feature. I checked and all permissions have been retained even from the datastores. Maybe View can't be put in a vApp? Do you think restoring the previous configuration could help?
It works normally even with the view account. What's strange also is that if i click on a host where i know there's 1 Windows 7 VM it shows "0 desktops" (image attached) I was previously us... See more...
It works normally even with the view account. What's strange also is that if i click on a host where i know there's 1 Windows 7 VM it shows "0 desktops" (image attached) I was previously using this VM as a manual pool for testing.
UPDATE: Seems like i can't browse the datastore from the view manager. I removed all pools, removed vCenter from View Manager, readded vCenter and when trying to add a manual pool pointing to ... See more...
UPDATE: Seems like i can't browse the datastore from the view manager. I removed all pools, removed vCenter from View Manager, readded vCenter and when trying to add a manual pool pointing to a vDesktop i was using before it shows that there is not virtual machine (compatible or incompatible). Maybe this will help you guys to help me
Hi everyone, i'm testing View 4.6 for internal use and today my 3 users reported that they cannot connect to their desktops. The status reported for the desktops in the View Manager is "Ava... See more...
Hi everyone, i'm testing View 4.6 for internal use and today my 3 users reported that they cannot connect to their desktops. The status reported for the desktops in the View Manager is "Available (missing)". I've noticed you can still connect with RDP if you point directly to the IP of the Virtual Desktop, shows as "Connected (missing)" I've noticed it does not show the host anymore nor the datastores where the Desktops are located, seems like a communication problem with vCenter. I've rebooted both vCenter and the View Connection Server with no results. View is 4.6 and vCenter is 4.1 just like all the hosts. I'm attaching a screenshot to show you what i'm talking about. Any ideas?
True, but i've always thought that the configuration of the desktop (including icons positions) was kept in ntuser.dat and desktop.ini files in the user profiles and since the user profile is mai... See more...
True, but i've always thought that the configuration of the desktop (including icons positions) was kept in ntuser.dat and desktop.ini files in the user profiles and since the user profile is maintained i assumed it would keep that too. It would be nice to find a way to keep icons positions, but i don't think there's any GPO for that even if i could be wrong of course... i have no idea. It comforts to know that it's default behavior. Anyone found a way to do this?
Hi everyone, i am testing View 4.6 for future deployment and i am using linked clones features with persistent user disks in "E:\" on Windows 7. When i fire a recompose on the test pool eve... See more...
Hi everyone, i am testing View 4.6 for future deployment and i am using linked clones features with persistent user disks in "E:\" on Windows 7. When i fire a recompose on the test pool everything works just great and the user profile is maintained but the only thing i am afraid users will complain about is that the icons on the desktop are not in the position they were before recomposing the pool, they look like they have been just sorted by name and they are lining up vertically one after another using the first free space on the desktop. This is the first time i test this product so i don't know if this is normal behaviour or if i am doing something wrong. Thanks in advance for your support.
I can tell you my friend that users will find in many different ways, that's the reason most of our test projects failed. Try to hook a window and move it around fast and you'll see how choppy... See more...
I can tell you my friend that users will find in many different ways, that's the reason most of our test projects failed. Try to hook a window and move it around fast and you'll see how choppy it is even with version 6 of RDP. A user will complain about that. Video streaming is another issue, i know we have Wyse for that in View 4 but it's working only with Windows Media Player 10. Too bad. I can tell you even if we think these things are insignificant they can be a problem in the decision making process. PCoIP will adapt no matter the application you're using, thus giving a much better overall desktop experience.