Administration

Remove an RDS Host from a Farm
You can remove an RDS host from a manual farm to reduce the scale of the farm, to perform maintenance
on the RDS host, or for other reasons. As a best practice, disable the RDS host and ensure that users are
logged off from active sessions before you remove a host from a farm.
If users have application or desktop sessions on hosts that you remove, the sessions remain active, but View
no longer keeps track of them. A user who disconnects from a session will be unable to reconnect to it, and
any unsaved data might be lost.
You can also remove an RDS host from an automated farm. One possible reason might be that the RDS host
is in an unrecoverable error state. View Composer automatically creates a new RDS host to replace the one
that you remove.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Resources > Farms.
2 Double-click the pool ID.
3 Select the RDS Hosts tab.
4 Select one or more RDS hosts.
5 Click Remove from farm.
6 Click OK.
Remove an RDS Host from View
You can remove from View an RDS host that you set up manually and that you no longer plan to use. The
RDS host must not currently be in a manual farm.
Prerequisites
Verify that the RDS host does not belong to a farm.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select View Configuration > Registered Machines.
2 Select an RDS host and click Remove.
3 Click OK.
After you remove an RDS host, to use it again, you must reinstall View Agent. See “Setting Up Remote
Desktop Session Hosts” in the Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document.
Disable or Enable an RDS Host
When you disable an RDS host, View no longer uses it to host new RDS desktops or applications. Users can
continue to use RDS desktops and applications that are currently open.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Resources > Farms.
2 Double-click the pool ID of a farm.
3 Select the RDS Hosts tab.
4 Select an RDS host and click More Commands.
5 Click Enable or Disable.
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