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Hello Everyone, I'm having an odd problem with AV 2.11.  We are getting random behavior where some of the time the App Stacks connect to the desktop without a problem and other times a message ... See more...
Hello Everyone, I'm having an odd problem with AV 2.11.  We are getting random behavior where some of the time the App Stacks connect to the desktop without a problem and other times a message stating that there was a problem communicating with the agent appears on the desktop and none of the App Stacks appear. Addressed: firewall ports / open, vCenter role and permissions / admin level, all there / no match to any specific ESXi host; no established pattern of any kind. Just wondering if anyone else out there has experienced this issue.  - ESXi 6.0 U2 - Server 2012 R2 - AV 2.11 - Horizon View 7.0.1 Thanks in advance.
Hey guys, We have just deployed a pilot program at a hospital and are experiencing some odd patterns.  I'll list everything out in point form below: Environment: - vBlock 300, XTremIO storag... See more...
Hey guys, We have just deployed a pilot program at a hospital and are experiencing some odd patterns.  I'll list everything out in point form below: Environment: - vBlock 300, XTremIO storage, 6 Cisco UCS blades, 384 GB /blade, plenty of CPU - VMware View 5.2 build 987719 - At current time - one pool, optimized disk, every user hits the same pool, 50-75 users on the pool at any time, but for now 10 or so connected and the rest are mostly in a disconnected state as nurses log on, perform their work in Epic and disconnect - Common pool settings, set to disconnect after 5 hours. - Users do not have profiles, there is no customization at all since all that they are using is Epic and Explorer. Each VM is refreshed at log off and it's a non-persistent pool. There is an overabundance of resources. Issue: What we are seeing is that some users take 30 seconds from login (Imprivata OneSign finger scan) or typing in password, regardless I start timing from the moment the hit the Enter button or touch the fingerprint reader, to the moment that they are ready to type in Epic which is the most common medical use application in use WHILE some users take 45 seconds.  I've looked at the user accounts to see their group membership, what resources (drives, printers) they are mapping, but there is no pattern.  Some users that are mapping nothing at all and are just members of a couple of basic groups. We eliminated a lot of possibilities that are focused on the user. I'm wondering now if this is something that may have to do with the back end system. Something in vSphere, View or maybe even hardware.   The question: Have any of you experienced anything like this?  Basically random login time differences between users.
Dave Wins! Great responses everyone.  Here is what I've summed up including information from my local VMware SEs: Accountability / Desktop vs. Server Teams Resource distraction / View operat... See more...
Dave Wins! Great responses everyone.  Here is what I've summed up including information from my local VMware SEs: Accountability / Desktop vs. Server Teams Resource distraction / View operations such as recomposing, refreshing, vmotion, etc... using otherwise server-centric resources Compatibility issues / View has prevented updates to latest versions of vSphere due to incompatibility issues in the past More effecient density architecture when the cluster if VDI-centric Better memory and I/O management when the cluster is VDI-centric Licensing (a given) Continuity options are more flexible HA is less constrained when the cluster is VDI-focused / less impact to the enterprise should a host fail Security/Safety - intrusion is more isolated None of these reasons should/would/could prevent a mixed use cluster, it's just a matter of effeciencey and best practice! Thank you everyone.
Good point about accountability between desktop and server teams I-J, but your answer is still mostly about licensing which is not an issue for this client. I'm looking for more technical informa... See more...
Good point about accountability between desktop and server teams I-J, but your answer is still mostly about licensing which is not an issue for this client. I'm looking for more technical information.
Hello, my name is Mr. Customer.  My VAR is telling me that I shouldn't be running desktop VMs brokered by View on the same hosts and in the same cluster as my server VMs.  Now I know that normall... See more...
Hello, my name is Mr. Customer.  My VAR is telling me that I shouldn't be running desktop VMs brokered by View on the same hosts and in the same cluster as my server VMs.  Now I know that normally VMware licensing makes it easier to just buy View along with ESX and vCenter, but I haven't followed the rules and actually wound up overbuying some licenses. I haven't violated any EULA points and I want some technical answers why so I can make the right decision and buy some new hardware and make my users' desktops shine. Signed, Mr.Customer. Hello, I'm the VAR and I've given my customer some reasons including: better resource sharing, more flexible outage windows, less impact in outage situations, I/O streaming and memory management.  I want to hear it from you guys, what do you think?  The best answers are the ones from our community so let's have 'em and thank you in advance.
Mike, thank you for the response.  Unfortunately I was unable to locate any of the entries (less your custom names) in several debug files. The terminals themselves are set to Central US time zon... See more...
Mike, thank you for the response.  Unfortunately I was unable to locate any of the entries (less your custom names) in several debug files. The terminals themselves are set to Central US time zone, but the sessions keep getting pushed to Central America even though we set the Windows session to Central US as well.  Perhaps some config file is incorrectly set.  I am researching....
Hello all, I have this nagging problem with one of my clients: On a WYSE terminal, mostly V10Ls, the time keeps shifting back to Central America from Central Time.  Here is the environment: - ... See more...
Hello all, I have this nagging problem with one of my clients: On a WYSE terminal, mostly V10Ls, the time keeps shifting back to Central America from Central Time.  Here is the environment: - View 4.6 broker, 4.6 agent, connecting to several types of endpoitns including the WYSE terminals.  We are in Central US Time and the WYSE terminals are set to Central US time. The user logs on, the time is set to Central America, not Central US. You change the time to Central US, log off and the next time, guess what? Central America.  Everyone uses linked clones via Composer 2.6. The base image is of course set to Central US time and it's only those sessions that are run on the WYSE terminals that experience this problem.  WIndows PC client users running View sessions do not have the problem and everyone uses the same base image.  Odd? I'll open a case with WYSE, but in the meantime I'm just wondering if any of you have experienced this.  Thanks in advance!
Found the problem!  It was the ThinPrint services: TP AutoConnect Service and TP VC Gateway Service that were running and were pushing the endpoint's printers onto the session.  We wound up remov... See more...
Found the problem!  It was the ThinPrint services: TP AutoConnect Service and TP VC Gateway Service that were running and were pushing the endpoint's printers onto the session.  We wound up removing them from the base image and recomposing the replicas without these services running.  Now the users are mapping only that which is assigned to them by Group Policy.  So in the end it wasn't anything related to GP, it was the virtual printing function that's built into View that was causing the problem.
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has run into the following problem: My client has  a View 4.6 environment with Composer.  At times throughout the day users experience a sudden printer re... See more...
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has run into the following problem: My client has  a View 4.6 environment with Composer.  At times throughout the day users experience a sudden printer remapping to the standard Windows XPS "printer". Group policy maps printers by default at log on, but at some random times during the day a remapping occurs and suddenly all the printers are gone and the XPS is back as a default.  Before I investigate this case from a Windows/Microsoft perspective I would like to see if there is perhaps something in View causing this.  Any help or experiences would be appreciated.  Thank you!
So you think that provisioning via snapshots ie: linked clones is a better scaling, better performing delivery mechanism than the vDisk/ Ardens Provisioning Server that Citrix uses? What would yo... See more...
So you think that provisioning via snapshots ie: linked clones is a better scaling, better performing delivery mechanism than the vDisk/ Ardens Provisioning Server that Citrix uses? What would you do for DR purposes for Linked Clones? View does have a great interface on version 4.5 and higher, prior to that - not so much. XD is more difficult to administer and its interfaceS should be slimmed and repackaged into one. It all comes down to what matters for you and what your users need. Sent from my iPhone 4 - Today's business tool.
The difficult thing here is getting an honest technical opinion.  I work for a VAR that deals with both products and often we are asked to compare, but most of the comparison papers are skewed by... See more...
The difficult thing here is getting an honest technical opinion.  I work for a VAR that deals with both products and often we are asked to compare, but most of the comparison papers are skewed by factors other than technology.  Also, asking this question in a VMware forum is going to produce some one-sided answers.  The best advice that I can provide is: examine what matters to you most. If you are in a high latency or low bandwidth WAN situation Citrix' ICA protocol will perform better and I challenge anyone to give me facts that prove otherwise. View on the other hand offers excellent performance over a LAN and is in some ways easier to administer.  Check some posts on brianmadden.com.
Luckily the client is not using off line VMs and the Security Server is a net-new feature that we will be implementing ad of this upgrade. Thank you for the advice idle-jam. Sent from my iPhon... See more...
Luckily the client is not using off line VMs and the Security Server is a net-new feature that we will be implementing ad of this upgrade. Thank you for the advice idle-jam. Sent from my iPhone 4 - Today's business tool.
Hello all, This Friday I will be upgrading a client from vCenter/vSphere 4.0 to vCenter/vSphere 4.1 and View 4.0.1 to View 4.6.  I've ready the Upgrade Guide, but I'm wondering if any of you hav... See more...
Hello all, This Friday I will be upgrading a client from vCenter/vSphere 4.0 to vCenter/vSphere 4.1 and View 4.0.1 to View 4.6.  I've ready the Upgrade Guide, but I'm wondering if any of you have encontered anything that's perhaps not covered in the guide or if there is anything significant that's different between an upgrade to 4.5 from 4.x? I've checked all versions of SQL, OS, Comoser, etc.. for compatibility and it seems to be all clear. Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!!
Does this appraoch apply only to sessions running PCoIP or can this be used with RDP as well?
Hello everyone, A client posed the following question today: Can the copy/paste function be disabled in a View session? The goal is to prevent users from removing sensetive data from company ... See more...
Hello everyone, A client posed the following question today: Can the copy/paste function be disabled in a View session? The goal is to prevent users from removing sensetive data from company systems. Thanks in advance!
View 4.5 is scheduled to go into Beta next month. There are numerous changes none of which I am allowed to disclose under our NDA, but I am looking forward to it. I certainly hope that this pro... See more...
View 4.5 is scheduled to go into Beta next month. There are numerous changes none of which I am allowed to disclose under our NDA, but I am looking forward to it. I certainly hope that this product is the true enterprise grade broker that a lot of us have been waiting for.
Hello everyone, We run 2 View 3.1.1 brokers installed on Windows 2003 64-bit system. Our environment consists of about 500 VMs and vCenter 2.5. The environment was installed before I joi... See more...
Hello everyone, We run 2 View 3.1.1 brokers installed on Windows 2003 64-bit system. Our environment consists of about 500 VMs and vCenter 2.5. The environment was installed before I joined the company, but has apparently worked though not without problems. I am wondering how the sofware could even complete the installaton on a 64-bit platform if it's not supported. Has anyone run into similar problems? Does anyone else actually have it installed on a 64-bit OS? Our support rep from VMware is recommending that we spin up a parallel environment on a 32-bit OS and migrate to it, but that's a bit of an undertaking. Any input would be appreciated.
Hello Everyone, I'd like to take a poll to see what base RAM everyone has standardized on for XP VMs and (if any) WIndows 7 VMs. I am tasked with developing next generation standards for my Fo... See more...
Hello Everyone, I'd like to take a poll to see what base RAM everyone has standardized on for XP VMs and (if any) WIndows 7 VMs. I am tasked with developing next generation standards for my Fortune 500 employer and would like to make the best decision. Our VMs will be compiled at log-on and will utilize virtulaized applications and thin profiles fused with a stock C: drive. Thanks everyone!
There are two approaches to capacity planning for VDI deployments: resource capacity and fit capacity. Always consider that virtualizing the desktop is not the same as virtualizing the server. ... See more...
There are two approaches to capacity planning for VDI deployments: resource capacity and fit capacity. Always consider that virtualizing the desktop is not the same as virtualizing the server. Novell Recon (frm Platespin) does an ok job for resource planning, but I think that there are better and more cost effective products out there competing against it today including VMware's own capacity planning tools. I would highly recommend Liquidware Labs Stratusphere for a "fit" planning design.
We are running View 3.1.1 with some agents updated to 3.1.2 for stability reasons. We are pondering an upgrade to View 4, but it does not seem to be all that it's cracked up to be so we're also ... See more...
We are running View 3.1.1 with some agents updated to 3.1.2 for stability reasons. We are pondering an upgrade to View 4, but it does not seem to be all that it's cracked up to be so we're also examining non-VMware alternatives.