BTW, I did the test with and without persistent disks (tested with two different pools) and with and without host caching enabled.
AWo
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
So it was in a stuck status of customizing, you powered it on and it then booted with the can't find OS message? Sometimes the stuck customizing status can be the result of network issues. Does everything check out there, including DHCP Scopes?
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
There are enough DHCP addresses free and as the MAC address didn't change (or does it change?) it should get its old one back.
Would a listing of the files of the guest help you? I could provide a list of a guest provisioned freshly and working and what is the case after recomposing.
AWo
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
Any extra information is great. On the recompose to the second snapshot do you see the replica being created?
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Re: Apex 2800 Horizon View 6
Teradici released 2.4.0 over the weekend: https://techsupport.teradici.com/ics/support/DLRedirect.asp?fileID=48179
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USB redirection not working, port 32111 connection refused
I am unable to get USB redirection to work in either windows 7 or windows 8 guests,from windows 7 or windows 8 clients. I believe the problem is related to the below excerpt from horizon log file on client
2014-08-19 13:11:57.030+-5:00 DEBUG (2CDC) [(null)] Creating new channel "1" to listener "Port1" for connection 1 of 0.
2014-08-19 13:11:57.050+-5:00 DEBUG (2CDC) [WinCDK] PCoIPWindow::OnMKSSizeChanged : new MKS size is (1024 x 768).
2014-08-19 13:11:58.536+-5:00 DEBUG (2CDC) [(null)] Error raising channel "1": Problem starting channel 1 for Port1: Failed to allocate onbound connection to 10.4.30.105:32111: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information
2014-08-19 13:11:58.537+-5:00 DEBUG (293C) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_FindDesktopFromHandle: handle=00000005, desktop=00000000
2014-08-19 13:11:58.537+-5:00 INFO (293C) [vmware-view-usbd] CdkViewUsb_Log: ViewUsblib log: ViewUsb_Error_CB: desktop found
2014-08-19 13:11:58.537+-5:00 ERROR (293C) [libcdk] CdkViewUsbCbFunc: callback called, reason=VIEWUSB_CB_ERROR, desktopHandle=03ACB280, msgId=213, msgString="IDS_DROPDOWN_DEVICES_NOT_AVAILABLE"
2014-08-19 13:11:58.537+-5:00 INFO (2CDC) [WinCDK] USBDevices::HandleUSBError : USB remoting is disabled for this desktop because the USB component is not available in the agent. The broker is 'fccwnwvdics01.frederick.edu'. The desktop is 'Windows7CE'.
Port 32111 is listening for connection on guest
I have checked and I can establish a connection on port 32111 using telnet between the client side and guest. We have teradici zero clients that work fine connected to the same pools/VMs
View agent is 5.3. Horizon view client is 3.0. Double checked policies in horizon view admin and everything is set to allow for USB redirection (at global level)
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Re: USB redirection not working, port 32111 connection refused
The thing that I saw first was the last line that says "USB remoting is disabled for this desktop because the USB component is not available in the agent". Have you tried a reinstall of the agent?
Also,check out this KB for USB troubleshooting. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026991
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Calculate datastore capacity for linked clone pool
Good day.
I`m trying to get optimal formula for calculation of datastore capacity, where linked-clone pool resides.
There is one in Sizing Storage for VMware View Linked Clones » myvirtualcloud.net:
(n° VMs * (Delta Footprint + Log + User Data Disk) + Replica + Master Replica +Overhead)
Andre takes vm with 20 Gb hard disk, 2Gb RAM and 2 Gb user persistent disk and he gets this (for 100vm):
(100 * (6144MB + 100MB + 2048MB) + 20GB + 124GB)
I don`t get few things:
1. Why Delta Footprint is 3*RAM, not 2*RAM (I mean there are 2 Gb vswp and 2 Gb on disposable disk what i missed)? Also I saw 2 vswp files in linked clone vm directory, for example: vmx-vcli-03-1188161764-1.vswp and vcli-03-46d1e8e4.vswp, 1480 and 1277 Mb respectively, I don`t get why there are two of them, not one?
2. Why Replica + Master Replica + Overhead = 20GB + 124GB? Why he do not calculate hypothetical linked-clone growth? What is overhead? It says here http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/view_storage_considerations.pdf :
Replica Overhead
As a best practice, allow for 2 times the replica size on each LUN you are going to provision.
But i provide separate datastore for replica and i do not see replicas on different LUNs (may be it is hidden, but i can see 1 replica on the datastore that i provide during pool deployment).
I thought I want to use this formula (in case when replica and master image resides on different datastore):
N * ((RAM-reservation) + Log + User disk + disposable disk + Hypothetical linked-clone growth)
So what is wrong with my formula, what is overhead and why Andre do not calculate linked-clone growth in his formula?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english.
Update: also i don`t get what is:
Linked Clone Base Size
Assume a base linked clone size of 50 percent of the replica.
Why linked-clone growth calculates in percentage from linked clone base size, not from replica disk size?
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
Healthy guest:
No OS guest:
AWo
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Re: View Composer 6 Installation fails
thx! Your answer is work!
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Re: Monitoring desktops VMware View
Hi,
I posted about monitoring View with Nagios a little while ago, I was running View 4.6 at the time.
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2195351
The Unofficial Advanced PowerShell cmdlets did exactly what I needed. Unfortunately though they don't work with View 5.x, so I've not been able to monitor the environment as effectively since upgrading.
I'm still looking for a way to pull each desktop state via PowerShell.
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Re: Apex 2800 Horizon View 6
Thought I would share this just in case it can help ...
After upgrading to horizon6 and upgrading the agent in my golden images, recomposed my pools but the display was no longer offloaded.
I had to reinstall the apex drivers, recomposed once more and the display gets offloaded again.
Cheers
Seb
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Re: Monitoring desktops VMware View
Monitoring a VMware Horizon View environment is very limited with the current PowerCLI cmdlets. Not every customer can afford vCenter Operations Manager for View to monitor the environment. I hope VMware will soon enhance the PowerCLI cmdlets for View so that monitoring is getting easier.
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Re: USB redirect for SmartBoard
Hi. We're trying to get it working with View 5.3.2, Windows 7 virtual desktops and Wyse P25's. Could you share how you got it to work?
Thanks
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
What about the replica for the second snapshot? Is it being created when the recompose is happening and is the host running that VM able to access the datastore that is storing the replica?
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Re: USB redirect for SmartBoard
with regards to the 4x click... whilst this might not be the perfect solution (as it may disable other functionality you need) could you try disabling the Tablet PC Input Service" and see if that helps. If you have any other win7 "touch" related service (for example from a pen input device), maybe try disabling that. i have seen wierd things before where they amplify the number of clicks required.
not a perfect solution but maybe worth a shot.
cheers
peterB
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
mittim12 schrieb:
What about the replica for the second snapshot? Is it being created when the recompose is happening and is the host running that VM able to access the datastore that is storing the replica?
How to find out that?
Yes, the guests are stored on the same datastore and run on the same hypervisor. All datastores are accessible by all hypervisors.
AWo
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
The listing of the parent:
AWo
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
I need to clarify something. Is this just a single guest having the issue or all guest having the issue when recomposing to the second snapshot?
If it's the latter then I would be curious if the replica is being created or failing when the recompose is happening. On the first deployment of a snapshot a corresponding replica is created. All the clones based on this snapshot will communicate with this replica via read IO. The replica VM is always created with the prefix of "replica" as seen in the screen shot. As far as I know if the clone can't access the replica then it will fail to boot although I thought it simply wouldn't power on.
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Re: After recompositioning W7 linked clone: No OS found
After switching the whole pool to the second snapshot and creating a new guest, a new replica directory was created.
AWo
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