View / VDI Availability Report (99% SLA)
Folks - how do you track your VDI/View availability? We agreed to the business to have a 99% availability and from a connection server perspective this is true.However the business wants to see the...
View ArticlePersona Management Breaks With Windows Essentials 2012 Installed
Horizon View 5.3.1Windows 7 64-bit After updating our parent images Persona Management would no longer work. Windows would freeze up when you attempted to do several functions such as changing the...
View ArticleUser Desktop icons and Favorites revert back - Horizon View 6.2
Hi All, We are using Persona Management for managing user profiles for our Automated Floating Desktop Pools. Users are entitled to multiple Desktop Pools and they login to one VDI session at one time...
View ArticleVDI Login ERROR
When the new users try's to login, it brings the reset password screen when they enter the old and new passwords it returns with a windows stating "Failed To change Expired Password" when you back out...
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vSGA / vDGA Hybrid Configuration
Hi there, I'm dealing with a customer who wants to provide hardware acceleration to both Windows and Linux desktops from a single server with a single graphics card. My immediate suggestion was that we...
View ArticleMigrating Persona directories while retaining permissions
I am attempting to upgrade VDI login time by moving persona directories to a faster storage device, but I am unable to migrate the user directories and retain their proper ownership. Is someone who...
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Should I use a seperate Virtual Center for my View Horizon 6 deployment?
I'm in a position where I am starting off fresh with a new View deployment. New hardware, newest version, etc. Should I have a separate Virtual Center server dedicated to View? We have a dedicated...
View ArticleSmart card authentication. Set default certificate/ select certificate...
Hi all, I've recently successfully created a horizon view 6 setup, using smart card to authenticate to the View Connection Server from the View client. During the authentication, the Horizon client...
View ArticleCloud Pods and Persona Mgmt Profiles
Hey, Hypothetical design question: - 2 datacenters in different continents, 70ms RTT, 1Gb Bandwidth, MPLS.- A view pod in each datacenter, linked using Cloud Pod Architecture and F5 GTM- Floating...
View Articlecannot get a post sync script to run post linked clone provision.
I have been banging my head against this particular brick for nearly 4 days now, We need to get the Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX agent working in the deployed linked clones. This is a synopsis of...
View ArticleWindows updates on vCenter + co-installed composer
Just a quick one regarding best practices for updating windows OS on a vCentre server with co-installed composer and databases. I've just set my persistent linked clone pools to auto-refresh on log...
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Horizon deleted files returning
I have a dedicated pool, Horizon 6.2, with a persistent disk to D:. When the user deletes a file from their desktop the file returns after logging off and back on. Notice the "x" on the file icon....
View ArticleSQL upgrade? Upgrading vSphere 5.1 and View 5.3.4 to vCenter 6.0u1 and...
Looking at the interoperability matrix for the databases. And it appears the version of SQL we are running at our organization isn't supported/interoperable with the latest version of the VMware...
View ArticleHorizon View Licensing Constraints
Hi, I've been asked to pose a question about the limitations of View licensing by our desktop team and what they are allowed to run. Currently we have the following licences: vCenter ServervCenter...
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Horizon View Access Point Server
I deployed a Horizon View Access Point Appliance for a customer, to be used as their Security Server. Everything is working great from outside the network, but from inside the network, they cannot...
View ArticleHighest PCoIP transmit mbps possible?
I've been experimenting with a brand-new ESXi server that IT is testing, with various View clients as well as zero-clients like the 10ZiG V1200-QP. The 10ZiG in particular is hooked up to four...
View ArticleView Security Server with Smartcard Auth
Guys I am at a bit of a stand still with my Horizon 6 deployment and i am hoping to get some assistance. I have a connection server running on the 10.0.244.x network, works fine with smart card...
View ArticleCan VMWare handle 30fps for four-monitor Excel scrolling?
We've been told recently by VMWare that we cannot expect to see anything close to native desktop performance for Windows 7 VMs across more than two monitors. I was stunned to hear this, so I've been...
View ArticleSnap of parent VM not present for recompose?
I have a Horizon View 6.1 auto, dedicated pool of linked clones I am using to attempt a demo of AppVolumes. As part of the POC, I wanted to see what updating the guest on the parent VM and pushing it...
View ArticleNo access to persistent desktop
I have a pool of persistent desktops for software developers. Two of the machines started having issues after an attempted upgrade to Visual Studio 2015, they interrupted an uninstall of VS2013 after...
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