wlftech's Posts

So our big thing for View was to replace as many laptops as possible.  We have been working with View over a year now and just now are starting to fully deploy it.  My big question is what are yo... See more...
So our big thing for View was to replace as many laptops as possible.  We have been working with View over a year now and just now are starting to fully deploy it.  My big question is what are you doing to satisfy the users who currently have laptops? Scenario 1: User has a laptop and does a lot of Powerpoint presentations / Projector Scenario 2: User has a laptop and works offline a lot.  May or may not have internet connection. Scenario 3: User has a laptop and sometimes requires the use of his desktop at monthly meetings etc away from his desk. Given these scenarios, my intitial thought was to repurpose some of our Dell D820 devices and the users who really are mobile (not just the users who have a laptop to check email at home) will receive one of them.  The users who occasionally need mobile access would be required to check one out.  (Will receive a lot of negative feedback about this...as the previous convenience of just having a laptop and not checking anything out will come up here) The D820s would be locked down so only the following would be allowed execute: VMware View Client Wireless Utilities Powerpoint Word Excel Access Internet Explorer We would not allow local drive access as soon as you do that you might as well give them a full laptop.  Only Flash Drives could be used to save info.  Users would be able to check out Verizon cards. What is everyone else doing about this situation / problem?  Synchronizing virtual desktops through the Local Mode client is not an option as we aren't going to have the time to do this.
How do you get thinapps to work on a Citrix server which has a M: boot drive rather than C:?  I get a fatal execution error which refers to the M: drive on the Citrix server when trying to open m... See more...
How do you get thinapps to work on a Citrix server which has a M: boot drive rather than C:?  I get a fatal execution error which refers to the M: drive on the Citrix server when trying to open my thinapps on it.
I am trying to thinapp Salesforce.com's Chatter Desktop app which relies on Adobe Air.  When I open it the application never compeletely loads and just sits at a white screen. Anyone ever done... See more...
I am trying to thinapp Salesforce.com's Chatter Desktop app which relies on Adobe Air.  When I open it the application never compeletely loads and just sits at a white screen. Anyone ever done this? I've tried all isolation modes. Thanks.
mittim12, Thanks for the help on this...quick question.  Do you assign 10GB of memory to all your connection servers?  (Security Servers also)  I know the recommendation is 10GB for servers hand... See more...
mittim12, Thanks for the help on this...quick question.  Do you assign 10GB of memory to all your connection servers?  (Security Servers also)  I know the recommendation is 10GB for servers handling over 50 desktops, but it just seems excessive. Michael
That should work.  Let me give it a try.  Do you think it matters at all which servers are replicas and that the one dedicated to External would be my standard one?  It seems crazy that if I want... See more...
That should work.  Let me give it a try.  Do you think it matters at all which servers are replicas and that the one dedicated to External would be my standard one?  It seems crazy that if I wanted a redundant setup throughout that I would have to create yet another connection server for external access.  (In addition to another security server)
We have hourly employees that we would like to place on View.  However, due to labor laws / regulations we can not offer offsite access.  (Home)  We could get sued for hours they worked at home b... See more...
We have hourly employees that we would like to place on View.  However, due to labor laws / regulations we can not offer offsite access.  (Home)  We could get sued for hours they worked at home but were not paid.  So I created a case with VMware and they told me the only way to do this was to use the tagging functionality to limit pools to certain connection servers.  This wasn't what I wanted to hear since it causes a lot of problems elsewhere.  Wish there was a nice on/off switch somewhere controlling external access.  But anyway, I created a third connection server and labeled it and my second replica as "INTERNAL".  I added my third connection server to the Microsoft NLB cluster also so I would have LB and redundancy.  I then created a seperate pool just for hourly employees and tagged it as INTERNAL also. The problem I am now facing is when I login to the MSFT NLB cluster IP it sometimes uses non "INTERNAL" connection servers (my first one).  When it does this then the "Internal" desktop pool doesn't show up. How is everyone getting around this?  See below diagram showing my setup. Thanks, Michael
I found through the Sophos firewall log that the PCoIP executable was being blocked as well. It was using a bunch of different ports so I just allowed the executable. C:\Program Files\Common Fi... See more...
I found through the Sophos firewall log that the PCoIP executable was being blocked as well. It was using a bunch of different ports so I just allowed the executable. C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Teradici PCoIP Server\pcoip_server_win32.exe That isn’t related to your domain issue, more a PCoIP connection thing. Michael These are the ones I have allowed: RDP 4001 4172 8009 9427 32111 50002 51281
What happens when you disable the Windows Firewall completely?
I fixed it by adding the parent to the domain before cloning and making sure my Sophos firewall had the correct policy allowing the correct traffic. The admin guide tells you that you don’t have... See more...
I fixed it by adding the parent to the domain before cloning and making sure my Sophos firewall had the correct policy allowing the correct traffic. The admin guide tells you that you don’t have to have the parent joined to the domain prior to creating the linked clone pool but I have had better luck having it on the domain. Thanks, Michael
I am having the same issue with Windows 7 as well. Domain is on 2003 not 2008.  I am not certain yet but it appears that the customization is failing when on a certain ESX host as well. Thoug... See more...
I am having the same issue with Windows 7 as well. Domain is on 2003 not 2008.  I am not certain yet but it appears that the customization is failing when on a certain ESX host as well. Thoughts? Michael
Where are you storing the parent images?  What SAN Tier?
How is everyone creating their linked clone parents?  Do you create a base image with customizations / optimizations that hold true for all your View pools and then create a template out of it?  ... See more...
How is everyone creating their linked clone parents?  Do you create a base image with customizations / optimizations that hold true for all your View pools and then create a template out of it?  Therefore one can create the parent VMs from it and further customize them till you are ready to snapshot and deploy?  If you do this do we need to sysprep or run a customized spec when creating the parents from the base template or just clone it?
Same here..I will be doing the same. Last do you know if you can make the locally installed browser use the thinapped version of flash / java?
I haven't done any testing yet with Windows 7.  I came up with 2GB based upon recommendations and decided that it would be a good starting point.  We are going to do a 20-30 user pilot test group... See more...
I haven't done any testing yet with Windows 7.  I came up with 2GB based upon recommendations and decided that it would be a good starting point.  We are going to do a 20-30 user pilot test group once I have the parent / pool created and will see if I need to change anything based upon their feedback and our analysis.  I would rather come up with performance specs based upon production data rather than a test lab using a workload script. Are you guys installing MS Office 2007 / 2010 in the parent image or ThinApping it and running off a file share?  I can see the benefits of both?
I read it along with all the other blog sites describing best practices, etc.  Once you read so many different perspectives it becomes a mess when trying to decide which route to try first:) T... See more...
I read it along with all the other blog sites describing best practices, etc.  Once you read so many different perspectives it becomes a mess when trying to decide which route to try first:) Thanks for the help. Michael
Ok...want to run the following by you quick to see what you think of it...appreciate the advice u are sharing. Parent VM Specs - Linked Clone Pool w/ Persistent Disk Win 7 64 Bit 2 GB RAM 2... See more...
Ok...want to run the following by you quick to see what you think of it...appreciate the advice u are sharing. Parent VM Specs - Linked Clone Pool w/ Persistent Disk Win 7 64 Bit 2 GB RAM 20 GB C Drive To cut down on the amount Disk IO taking place I have changed my parent to have a minimum page file of 512MB and Max 1024MB.  This also allows for us to have smaller disposable disks as well.  if this turns out to not be enough then we will add memory to the parent rather than allow it to do additional paging. I have changed the parent VM's memory reservation to 1GB so only half of the configured amount is allowed to swap.  Again to decrease Disk IO but yet to still allow for some ESX memory sharing.  (TPS, etc) Anything wrong with this?
Yeah the additional management burden I have thought about and I agree it would be much easier to just create one big pool, I was just wondering if others have thought about the fact that you are... See more...
Yeah the additional management burden I have thought about and I agree it would be much easier to just create one big pool, I was just wondering if others have thought about the fact that you are putting all your eggs in one basket and if something went wrong with that pool you would effect all VDI users rather than a subset? I plan on refreshing every weekend to keep the delta disks down. Thanks, Michael
We have the licenses to run 100 concurrent desktops at one of our locations.  Given this I am wondering if I should create pools with 50 desktops in each.  My thinking is that 50 linked clones wi... See more...
We have the licenses to run 100 concurrent desktops at one of our locations.  Given this I am wondering if I should create pools with 50 desktops in each.  My thinking is that 50 linked clones will easily run on a 500 GB LUN (our default size) and it will segment the desktops some in case someone ever does something deterimental to a pool.  Should I be thinking along these lines or should I just create one big pool of 200 desktops? Thoughts?
Would you still try for a stateless desktop or just use folder redirection + persistent disks?  I am starting to think this is best route to take given that the RTO software is supposed to be rel... See more...
Would you still try for a stateless desktop or just use folder redirection + persistent disks?  I am starting to think this is best route to take given that the RTO software is supposed to be released in the next version.  I understand that persistent disks make their data a little harder to get to from an IT perspective compared to a file server (Profile Solution), but considering it is going to be on the SAN either way I am ok with this. Have you had much luck redirecting Application Data?  I tried it 3-4 years ago and thought it really slowed things down and programs ran a little haywire at times? Thanks for the info. Michael
Makes sense to me...that is what I figured but just wanted to double check.  Thanks.