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I am an experienced Consulting Architect for VMware’s Professional Services Organization, End-user Computing specializing in VMware Horizon Suite product-line and SDDC. I have over 23 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to his past experience, I have a passion for technology and thrives on educating customers. Additionally, I have 10 years of hands-on virtualization experience deploying full-life cycle solutions using VMware, CITRIX, and Hyper-V. I also has 18 years of experience in computer programming in various languages ranging from basic scripting to C, C++, PERL, .NET, SQL, and PowerShell. I’ve received acclaim from several clients for my in-depth and varied technical experience and exceptional hands-on customer satisfaction skills. In February 2013, I received VMware’s Spotlight award for my outstanding persistence and dedication to customers and was nominated again in October of 2013. I was awarded 2015 – 2017 vEXPERT.

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AppVolumes and Horizon Recompose Workaround

Jeremy Wheeler
September 23, 2015March 25, 2018 2 mins

The following is a workaround for when you are impacted by recompose loops in Horizon View and using App Volumes. VMware engineering is aware of this problem and is working on a fix. The issue discovered is when multiple AppStacks are attached to VDI desktops and a recompose is initiated. The timing between when VMDK’s are detached from a VDI desktop and when Horizon tries to execute its recompose.

  1. On your gold image
    1. Copy ‘av.cmd‘ to ‘c:\Scripts\‘ on your gold image (Scripts folder is an example location but should match the path specified in image1)
    2. Copy ‘Prep Image for Snap.bat‘ to your gold image desktop
    3. Execute the batch file “Prep Image for Snap.bat” and this will power-down the VM. Once powered-down, create a snapshot for your View environment. (What the script is doing is stopping the AppVolumes service prior to you doing a snapshot once View spin’s up replicas or a refresh it starts the service.)
  2. Modify your View pool under ‘Guest Customization’ to include the path and filename to ‘av.cmd‘ (see Image1)
  3. Select OK to save settings. 

Image1:

Av recompose fix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You should be able to recompose/refresh now with no issues.

Files: https://vmware.awmdm.com/MyDevice/s/581/4b5185cb-69ed-4a8e-8923-b845dd8422c1/AV-Fix.zip

Special thanks to Matthew Mabis from PSO, End-user Computing for creating this solution for customers.

 

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