Hi,

I've built a test environment consisting of three ESXi 5.5U2 hosts.  One one of those hosts I run the following

VCenter - W2KR2 running SQL2008R2 Express SP3

View - W2KR2

Composer W2KR2 running SQL2012 Express

Using the web client I can connect to VCenter and manage the environment happily.  I am trying to install Composer into this VSphere environment however I can't connect the composer server in the existing View administrator console.  I have tried using both a standalone Composer server and also installing Composer on VCenter.  View appears to be functioning correctly as I can connect to virtual desktops using PCoIP.  I would now like to test the linked clone functionality using Composer.

I am using the self-signed certs for this test, so can see the warning when I try to add the composer box.  I can accept the cert but get an error every time - the wording is not always the same :

"Error while attempting to connect to View Composer"

or "A connection problem occurred between Connection Server, View Composer, and vCenter Server.  Check that all the services are running and the ports and URLs are entered correctly"

I have confirmed that port 18446 is listening on both servers (Windows firewall is turned off).  The VMware View Composer service is running on both servers and running as a local account.   I have checked the SQL logs, and the composer logs on both vCenter and the dedicated Composer server, but can't see specific errors when trying to connect.  I've checked the DSN and the database as per the install guide and can verify connection. 

What I do see are SChannel errors on both VCenter and Composer which correspond with connection attempts :

SCHANNEL Error #36887  The following fatal alert was received: 46

I am presuming these are connected with acceptance of the untrusted SSL cert and is therefore expected behavior.

I've attached logs below and some screenshots of errors.

Thanks

Have any of you guys deployed or managed a View environment w a Security Server in the DMZ and had users connecting from the outside to linked clone desktops on the internal network? Currently our environment is this:

- Two internal connection servers, one for internal only connections and the second paired with our Security Server in our DMZ

- Palo Alto PA-3020 Firewall with rules to allow external connections being proxied through the security server to our internal desktops

- RSA 2-factor configured for the external connections

The issue is that to get external connections to work we have to explicity have the IP address or IP range of the VM being connected to in our firewall rule to allow PCoIP traffic to flow from the internal desktop towards our DMZ security server and vice versa. This is fine with persistent full desktops but we're trying to migrate towards linked clones which have dynamic IP's and different users (ones w remote access permissions and ones w no remote access permissions).

I've spoke with Palo Alto and had a couple tickets open w them on getting the user-id function to work in this use case but they were unable to get it to work because the user-ip mapping was not being recognized on the DMZ security server, only on the internal connection server was there an ip-user mapping.

Has anyone gotten remote access to linked clone desktops to work with an enterprise firewall without specifying an IP range in the firewall rule? Our main concern with doing that is that someone could pick up somebodies lost RSA key and use that token to get in and then be able to log into their own desktop/someone else's that theyve obtained credentials to.

I suppose you can make a pool exclusively for remote access and use a connection server tag to pin it the external connection server.

I have successfully used ThinPrint in a GPO to deliver printers to computers.  However, is there a way for me to use the thinprint gpo to remove a printer from a workstation?

Win7 32 bit clients.

thanks for any input.

I have installed the Horizon View Agent (6.0.0) and View Direct Connection Plugin (6.0.0) on a physical server running Windows Server 2012 R2 with Remote Desktop Services enabled.  I would like to use USB redirection from the client to the server.   When I log into the remote desktop session using the Windows View client,  it tells me that USB redirection is disabled.   I have tried connecting the View Client to the View Connection server and directly to the RDS server with the same result.  Do I need to enable RemoteFX on the Windows Server running RDS for USB redirection to work ?  I don't have any RemoteFX hardware, that is why I haven't tried it yet.

Is is possible to use touch screens with Horizon View 6.0 and if so what is needed to accomplish that?  Thanks

hello,

o'm facing problem with my vmware view horizon when i try to create pool it still stop at proccess provisioning and no any update happens. also it happens when i try to delete another pool still face long time problem and i deleted them manually. i'm just asking about the reason that makes it happens, i didn't make any update or changes on my servers.

i've 2 connection server (normal and replica)

vcompser installed on vcenter server

database of vcenter located on centralized SQL server and the service for vcenter running and working.

i'm already working normally on my dedicated pool and i can connect to the machine normally with no problems

Hi all,

We have 50 clients running on windows XP and we need to migrate in windows 7, without making dissapear existing application in windows XP.

i need info and requirement to do migration. thank you all

fyi, we using vmview 4.6

regards

Zahrie

Hi all.

I have to migrate my server end client from one forest single domain to new forest and new domain. I have Horizon View 5 with 200 Virtual Desktop. I'm looking for best pratics for this project for migrate all virtual client in New Domain.

Thanks.

Hi

I am very new to this, so a little help will be very appreciated. I am using a Horizon View 6 and I am trying to log on to the connection server as an administrator, but get a message saying Password expired. Any idea how I can renew my password.

Hi,

• Running View 5.2, looking to upgrade soon.
• We use local storage (FusionIO).
• Each pool is spread across 4 servers running these local storage.
• Our linked clones are non-persistent - users don't get a specific desktop, and desktops are deleted on logout.

So, I'd like to patch the servers.

My thinking on this is:

1. Edit the pool to remove the local storage on the sever to be patched.
2. Rebalance.
3. Perform update (maintenance mode, yada yada).

So the rebalance operation is having limited success in my first test

I am aware of this: VMware View 5.2 Documentation Library : You cannot load-balance virtual machines across a resource pool. For example, you cannot use the View Composer rebalance operation with linked-clones that are stored on local datastores.

So I cannot rebalance (first of all, I'm not sure why? In my case, can't machines just be deleted and recreated elsewhere - considering a rebalance also does a refresh anyway)?

What is the best approach?

• I need to ensure that available desktops on the specific server local storage are not available anymore (once there are more sources available on another server storage) so that users don't connect/are not connected when I do maintenance.
• I need to ensure that connected desktops on the specific server local storage are deleted on logout (as usual) and do not get recreated on that storage again.

Of course, when the server comes back up, I need to reverse the process and get desktops back onto it, and maintain a balance across the other servers.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

We have a problem in our environment where we are running 2x dual monitors 1920x1080 displays for Win 7 x64 VMs connecting from Win7/8 Thin clients with VMWare View Clients 3.2 32bit and running VMWare View 5.3

We are finding we get random disconnects of the sessions and the logs on the clients show that the session has dropped and it is re configuring the displays, any ideas?

"2/17/2014, 12:41:01.257> LVL:0 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :flip_frame_buffer: Resolution change for

display 0 [0, 1004]

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.323> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :sw_host_get_display_modes: - warning -

primary display not found

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.323> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :reconfigure_displays: 2 display(s) reported!

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.323> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :reconfigure_displays: Different topology -

failed to reconfigure 2 display(s)!

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.323> LVL:0 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :flip_frame_buffer: Resolution change for

display 0 [0, 1004]

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.323> LVL:2 RC: 0 SERVER :Desktop switched: EVENT_SYSTEM_DESKTOPSWITCH

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.326> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :sw_host_get_display_modes: - warning -

primary display not found"

and the pcoip server tries to reconfigure 3 times

"12/17/2014, 12:41:01.326> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :reconfigure_displays: No displays reported,

re-trying to get display modes, retries left: 3

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.341> LVL:2 RC: 0 SERVER :server mailbox: MBX_SHUTDOWN with agent

disconnect reason code (0x5)

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.341> LVL:2 RC: 0 SERVER :server mailbox: Stopping mailbox message loop

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.360> LVL:2 RC: 0 SERVER :server main: got terminate application

message

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.360> LVL:2 RC: 0 SERVER :server main: exiting

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.362> LVL:2 RC: 0 SERVER :server cleanup: tearing down pcoip with agent

disconnect reason code(5) and waiting

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.363> LVL:1 RC: 0 SERVER :map_agent_to_tera: DISCONNECT_FOR_RECONNECT -

> TERA_DISCONNECT_CAUSE_HOST_BROKER_RECONNECT

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.363> LVL:0 RC: 0 MGMT_SESS :Tearing down the session

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.363> LVL:2 RC: 0 COMMON :tera_pcoip_teardown_and_exit: Waiting for the

session to teardown...

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.363> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_PCOIP_DATA :OPEN: Got EVENT_RESET. Transition into BYE,

pcoip data handle: 0

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.363> LVL:1 RC: 0 MGMT_DDC :mgmt_ddc_fcc_callback: queuing

TERA_MGMT_FCC_EVENT_RESET [pri=0]

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.363> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_VCHAN :app_reset: Session has been dropped. Forcing

all channels to close!

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.364> LVL:1 RC:-500 SERVER :kmp_set_ptr_location() failed!

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.364> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_PCOIP_DATA :pcoip_app_handler: received peer data manager

BYE_OK packet

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.364> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_PCOIP_DATA :BYE: Received BYE_OK. Transition into INIT,

pcoip data handle: 0

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.364> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_PCOIP_DATA :mgmt_pcoip_data_set_media_activation: URBoIP

is not used

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.365> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_SSIG :Request to reset session (PRI: 0)

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.438> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :sw_host_get_display_modes: - warning -

primary display not found

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.438> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :reconfigure_displays: No displays reported,

re-trying to get display modes, retries left: 2

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.541> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :sw_host_get_display_modes: - warning -

primary display not found

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.541> LVL:1 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :reconfigure_displays: different num of

displays prev:2 now:1 - failed!

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Resetting the codec: detected a VIC change of

state event

12/17/2014, 12:41:01.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Resetting encoder (reset_type=1)

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Image stats: Elapsed session time = 184441

seconds

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Image stats [MBits/s]: Total=0.0159254

Lossy=0.0024099 Lossless=0.0128909 Build=0.0010014 (Lossy 2.14339e-005) Cache=0.00398552

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Image stats [MPPS]: Lossy=0.000869244

Txt=0.0107217 Bkgnd=0 Motion=0 TileCache=0.049906 - deprecated - values duplicated below

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Image stats [MPPS]: Changed=0.0620462

LS(txt+bkg)=0.0107217 LY(chg)=0.000869259 LY(bld)=1.12981e-005 LY(LS_res)=4.23583e-005

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Image stats [MPPS]: Motion=0

zero_offset_tile_cache_hits=0.0310481 offset_tile_cache_hits=0.0188579 temporal_cache_hits=0

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.542> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :Image stats [MPPS]: LY_mec_restart=4.51373e-

005 LY_txt_restart=0

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.542> LVL:0 RC: 0 IMG_FRONTEND :close_displays: reset SVGADevTap.

12/17/2014, 12:41:02.547> LVL:2 RC: 0 MGMT_IMG :CODEC: State change from CODEC_RUNNING to

CODEC_DISABLED

I've recently successfully installed the HTML access feature on a Horizon View 6.0 connection server.

While attempting to add this feature to a security server associated with that server, I'm presented with the following message:

(Afterward the application errors out and refuses the install.)

I have been unable to find any information in the Vmware Docs as to why Domain Admin rights are required, or what check is being performed during this the install of the HTML tools.

Windows 7 Pro vm quest OS accumulating multiple random copies of USB connected printers on connection to automated pool of 24 floating virtual machines. The actual physical connected printer is brought to an offline state resulting in installed applications submitting print jobs to bogus printers. I am working with HP t520 Flexible Thin Pro Clients on  ESXi 5.5. The VMware application layer in play consists of the Horizon View Client 3.2, View Agent 5.3.1, and VM Tools v.9349 . I have set the View redirection options at the Thin Client to each available scenario and cannot seem to get rid of the problem yet. Anyone else experiencing this?

Hi All,

  I have a Windows 7 x64 Linked clone with the latest View 5.3 Agent installed.  I also have a mix of some using the View 3.2.0 Desktop Client and 5.3.0-1427931 on both Win 7 and win xp.

  The issue is when I print a document, generally from excel, from the VDI to their local printer using thin printing an error message pops up stating there is not enough memory.  If the user closes all applications and opens only the program they are printing from then it works. I recently upgraded all of my pools to win 7 x64 from win 7 x32.  We never had that issue in x32.

If anyone has any suggestions I would be greatly appreciative.

Thanks,

David

Hi,

We installed and configured the Security and the Connection Server in our environment. Now, we are testing the connection to our virtual desktops on our end-clients. We remarked the following:

- If we use an mobile hotspot from an iPhone on our end-clients, we can not connect to our virtual desktops.

- If we use an mobile hotspot from an Android mobile, it works fine.

- If we use our internal w-lan, it works also.

- If we use our w-lan at home or somewhere else external, it works also.

Did someone else experience the same when connecting the end-client with an iPhone hotspot? We guess that the Apple iOS uses port 4172 or blocks it.

Regards

elkum

Is it possible to utilize multiple url's to access the same VMWare View infrastructure?

Right now I have 1 security server and 1 connection server.  I would like to bring up a new url so that we can change the url the clients connect to (The connection is via https). I have a lot of clients connecting and it would be easier for me to bring up a new url so that I can migrate clients to the new url with the least amount of user impact.

Looking through the infrastructure it looks like what I would need to do is bring up a new security server and a new connection server but using different urls/ips on the PCOIP secure gateway and secure tunnel.

I'm looking for an option that requires the least amount of work.

thanks!!!

Wondering everyone's thoughts about a question around template/pool design. Typically I have created a new template per View pool and recomposed using the template's own snapshots. Since storage is typically available and not an issue this has worked ok, just more templates to manage.

Recently I have been "thinking" about instead re-using the templates and building the different pools from snapshots. Anyone doing the latter, and any pitfalls or things to watch out for besides what I would see as a "whoops" factor of assigning the wrong snapshot to a pool?

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

We have created a new Horizon View 6 infrastructure which spans 2 remote data centres and linked together using the Cloud Pod Architecture feature.

Everything has gone fairly well and we have successfully created Global Entitlements which span the two view pods and tested this works correctly using the full client.

In the documentation, it states a current limitation of CPA is that HTML (Blast) access does not function.

Sure enough, if you try to access a HTML enabled pools with your Global Entitlement in place the following message is displayed:

"You cannot access your applications or desktops from the web client. Please install the VMware Horizon Client, version 3.0 or later."

So my question is (as we have several users we are looking to migrate to this platform that use and like the HTML access convenience), when it HTML (Blast) due to be supported in a Cloud Pod Architecture environment?

Many thanks for any information in advance!

Folks,

I am looking for an official documentation that has the information about the maximum clones allowed  in a VMware Horizon 6 environment that uses trial licenses.

Basically, how many (maximum) virtual desktop can I clone using VMware Horizon 6 trial licenses (in a testing environment).

Any help is appreciated!

Tks

Hi Guys, I want to test creating Pools using 2 Active Directory domains. I've setup my environment as follow:

Domain A

1- Connection Server

2- Composer Server

3- Security server

4- vCenter Server

Domain B

1- Connection Server

2- Created a separate View Composer account

At the moment Horizon View 5.3.2 is fully functional on Domain A. But I need your help deploying pool using Domain B. After setting up Connection Server(joined to Domain B) I tried to add Domain B using View Composer account by logging to View Admin(Domain A) > Edit vCenter Server > Edit View Composer Settings > Verify Server Informations(under Domain) but I'm getting "Bad domain name"

Could you guys please help or send me a link to setup one-way trust which is needed for VMware View so that I can deploy Pool using Domain B.

Without creating any trust, I've added Domain B conditional forwarder on Domain A which let me add the Domain B without "Bad domain name" pop up. But I don't know what to do next. Can someone please guide me.

Regards