A double-shot of knowledge
I discovered this issue at a customers today. They have two sites, North and South. They are running 6.2.0 Horizon View at both locations. After initializing CPA in North and joining South to the federation everything looked healthy. We were still messing with setting up additional brokers etc. When it came time to testing CPA, […]
A customer I worked with owns two vBLOCKS between two datacenters. They run Nexus 1000v for the virtual networking component. They deployed VDI and when we enabled cloud pod architecture the Global data replication worked great, however all of our connection servers in the remote pod would show red or offline. I found that we could […]
With the release of Horizon View 6.2 and vSphere 6.0 Update 1a, comes new features but also possible new issues. If you have an environment running Horizon 6.2 and anything below vSphere 6.0 Update 1, you might see some potential issues with your VDI desktops. VMware has introduced a new video driver (version 6.23) […]
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 […]
VMware App Volumes Antivirus Exclusions On Desktops: C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes C:\SnapVolumesTemp C:\SVROOT VMware Mirage Antivirus Exclusions On the Servers: Mirage Storage Volumes Mirage Local Cache. This is configured during installation, but is located by default at: C:\ProgramData\Wanova\Mirage\LocalCache On Desktops: Mirage Staging Area – C:\Wanova Volume Information Configure these services to be white listed by the […]
Refreshed our top 20 list of VMware View specific KBs. Some have dropped off the list while others are now trending upward. Have a look and see if you are encountering any of these issues in View. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database in VMware View Manager […]
PCoIP Firmware 4.8.0 firmware for Tera2 zero clients has just been released. Some small goodies in there but I think the main one is for RDS. Zero clients now support VMware Horizon 6 application remoting based on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS). To configure zero clients to access VMware Horizon streamed applications, select the new […]
I’ll keep updating this table as I learn about maximums. Recent source: https://pubs.vmware.com/horizon-view-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/horizon-view-60-architecture-planning.pdf
In the event your organization is considering maintaining a SQL server on a Stretched Management cluster (Metro Cluster) or normal cluster please keep in mind the following: Normal Operations Host fails and dedicated resources of vCPU, RAM, are now unavailable Admission Control triggers an HA event Virtual Machine is power cycled-down DRS migrates Virtual Machine […]
I ran into some issues in my lab when I was tested out a sub-domain so I thought I would share some notes when it comes to removing a domain from Horizon View. You can use an exclusion list to specify the domains that View excludes from the results of a domain search. This will […]
