topic Re: Horizon Autostart VM in Horizon Desktops and Apps

Horizon Autostart VM

i4steck — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:58:45 GMT

Hello together
we have the problem that switched off desktops are started but not immediately displayed to the user.
We connect users via two UAGs and Horizon connection server is distributed via a DNS split. If a VM is already started, the user is connected to it immediately.

For this I have measured the time:

1 sec	Start VM
25 sec	Windows Booted
35 sec	Horizon showing VM ready
65 sec	vCenter showing IP of VM
370 sec	User will be connected

It can also be aborted at the first connection and then try again and the connection is established under 4.5 minutes.

Does anyone have an idea what kind of adjustment can be made?

Greetings Dominic

Re: Horizon Autostart VM

kvmw2130 — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:25:19 GMT

Hello,

If you login to horizon connection server through RDP and open logs "C:\Programdata\VMware\VDM\logs" and open the debug logs in notepad++ and search for the word "PendingOperation-vm-XXXXXX-Starting" where XXXXXX here refers to Managed object ID of the VM.

You can just track these events would let you if there are some issues with port waiter or some other service waiting to start

Re: Horizon Autostart VM

i4steck — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:20:12 GMT

hello
thanks for the tip, I was now able to see the problem with the blocked port and open it on the firewall.
Now the startup works as desired, thank you very much!