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Contents Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 7 1 Introduction to Desktop and Application Pools 9 Farms, RDS Hosts, and Desktop and Application Pools 9 Advantages of Desktop Pools 10 Desktop Pools for Specific Types of Workers 11 Advantages of Application Pools 14 2 Preparing Unmanaged Machines 15 Prepare an Unmanaged Machine for Remote Desktop Deployment Install Horizon Agent on an Unmanaged Machine 16 15 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning 19 Creating a Virtu
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 6 Creating Instant-Clone Desktop Pools 79 Instant-Clone Desktop Pools 79 Image Publishing and Rebalancing an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool Add an Instant-Clone Domain Administrator 81 Worksheet for Creating an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool 82 Create an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool 84 ClonePrep Guest Customization 85 Instant-Clone Maintenance Utilities 86 81 7 Creating Manual Desktop Pools 89 Manual Desktop Pools 89 Worksheet for Creating a Manual Desktop Pool 89
Contents Desktop Pool Settings for RDS Desktop Pools 124 Configure Adobe Flash Throttling with Internet Explorer for RDS Desktop Pools 125 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools 127 User Assignment in Desktop Pools 127 Naming Machines Manually or Providing a Naming Pattern Manually Customizing Machines 133 Desktop Pool Settings for All Desktop Pool Types 135 Adobe Flash Quality and Throttling 139 Setting Power Policies for Desktop Pools 140 Configuring 3D Rendering for Desktops 145 Prevent Access to View Desktop
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Storage Overcommit for View Composer Linked-Clone Virtual Machines 249 View Composer Linked-Clone Data Disks 251 Storing View Composer Linked Clones on Local Datastores 252 Storing Replicas and Clones on Separate Datastores for Instant Clones and View Composer Linked Clones 253 Configure View Storage Accelerator for View Composer Linked Clones 254 Reclaim Disk Space on View Composer Linked Clones 255 Using VAAI Storage for View Composer Linked Clones 257 Set
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View describes how to create and provision pools of machines and create pools of remote applications that run on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts. It includes information about preparing machines, configuring policies, entitling users and groups, configuring remote desktop features, and configuring user profiles with View Persona Management.
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Introduction to Desktop and Application Pools 1 With Horizon 7, you can create desktop pools that include thousands of virtual desktops. You can deploy desktops that run on virtual machines (VMs), physical machines, and Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts. Create one VM as a base image, and Horizon 7 can generate a pool of virtual desktops from that image. You can also create application pools that give users remote access to applications.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Farms Farms are collections of RDS hosts and facilitate the management of those hosts. Farms can have a variable number of RDS hosts and provide a common set of applications or RDS desktops to users. When you create an RDS desktop pool or an application pool, you must specify a farm. The RDS hosts in the farm provide desktop and application sessions to users.
Chapter 1 Introduction to Desktop and Application Pools Desktop Pools for Specific Types of Workers View provides many features to help you conserve storage and reduce the amount of processing power required for various use cases. Many of these features are available as pool settings. The most fundamental question to consider is whether a certain type of user needs a stateful desktop image or a stateless desktop image.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Use floating assignment so that users log in to any available desktop. This setting reduces the number of desktops required if everyone does not need to be logged in at the same time. n Create instant-clone or View Composer linked-clone desktops so that desktops share the same base image and use less storage space in the datacenter than full virtual machines. n For View Composer desktop pools, determine what action, if any, to take when users log off.
Chapter 1 Introduction to Desktop and Application Pools n For power users and knowledge workers who must install their own applications, which adds data to the operating system disk, there are two options. One option is to create full virtual machine desktops, and use Mirage to deploy and update applications without overwriting user-installed applications.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n If applicable, consider storing desktops on local ESXi datastores. This strategy can offer advantages such as inexpensive hardware, fast virtual-machine provisioning, high-performance power operations, and simple management. For a list of the limitations, see “Storing View Composer Linked Clones on Local Datastores,” on page 252. Instant clone pools are not supported on local data stores.
Preparing Unmanaged Machines 2 Users can access remote desktops delivered by machines that are not managed by vCenter Server. These unmanaged machines can include physical computers and virtual machines running on virtualization platforms other than vCenter Server. You must prepare an unmanaged machine to deliver remote desktop access. For information about preparing machines that are used as Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts, see Chapter 8, “Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts,” on page 95.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Install Horizon Agent on an Unmanaged Machine You must install Horizon Agent on an all unmanaged machines. View cannot manage an unmanaged machine unless Horizon Agent is installed. To install Horizon Agent on multiple Windows physical computers without having to respond to wizard prompts, you can install Horizon Agent silently. See “Install Horizon Agent Silently,” on page 30.
Chapter 2 Preparing Unmanaged Machines 8 Select an authentication method to register the unmanaged machine with the View Connection Server instance. Option Action Authenticate as the currently logged in user The Username and Password text boxes are disabled and you are logged in to the View Connection Server instance with your current username and password.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 2‑1. Horizon Agent Custom Setup Options for Unmanaged Machines in an IPv4 Environment (Optional) (Continued) Option Description View Persona Management Synchronizes the user profile on the local desktop with a remote profile repository, so that users have access to their profiles whenever they log in to a desktop. Smartcard Redirection Lets users authenticate with smart cards when they use the PCoIP or Blast Extreme display protocol.
Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning 3 You can create a pool of desktop machines by cloning a vCenter Server virtual machine (VM). Before you create the desktop pool, you need to prepare and configure this VM, which will be the parent of the clones. For information about preparing machines that are used as Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts, see Chapter 8, “Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts,” on page 95.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 2 Install a Guest Operating System on page 22 After you create a virtual machine, you must install a guest operating system. 3 Prepare a Guest Operating System for Remote Desktop Deployment on page 22 You must perform certain tasks to prepare a guest operating system for remote desktop deployment.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning Virtual Machine Custom Configuration Parameters You can use virtual machine custom configuration parameters as baseline settings when you create a virtual machine for remote desktop deployment. You can change certain settings when you use View Administrator to deploy desktop pools from the virtual machine. Table 3‑1.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 3‑1. Custom Configuration Parameters (Continued) Parameter Description and Recommendations SCSI Controller The type of SCSI adapter to use with the virtual machine. For Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 7 guest operating systems, you should specify the LSI Logic adapter. The LSI Logic adapter has improved performance and works better with generic SCSI devices. LSI Logic SAS is available only for virtual machines with hardware version 7 and later.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning n Verify that Remote Desktop Services are started on the virtual machine. Remote Desktop Services are required for Horizon Agent installation, SSO, and other View operations. You can disable RDP access to your View desktops by configuring desktop pool settings and group policy settings. See “Prevent Access to View Desktops Through RDP,” on page 156. n Verify that you have administrative rights on the guest operating system.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 9 If Horizon Client devices will connect to the virtual machine with the PCoIP display protocol, go to Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Performance Settings and change the setting for Visual Effects to Adjust for best performance. If you instead use the setting called Adjust for best appearance or Let Windows choose what's best for my computer and Windows chooses appearance instead of performance, performance is negatively affected.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning 3 4 (Optional) Install the Desktop Experience feature if you plan to use the following features. n HTML Access n Scanner redirection n Windows Aero (Optional) To use Windows Aero on a Windows Server desktop, start the Themes service. When you create or edit a desktop pool, you can configure 3D graphics rendering for your desktops.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Procedure 1 Log in as an administrator. 2 Start Server Manager. 3 Select Add roles and features. 4 On the Select Installation Type page, select Role-based or feature-based installation. 5 On the Select Destination Server page, select a server. 6 On the Select Server Roles page, accept the default selection and click Next. 7 On the Select Features page, under User Interfaces and Infrastructure, select Desktop Experience.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning The Horizon Agent software cannot coexist on the same virtual or physical machine with other Horizon software components, including security server, Connection Server, and View Composer. It can coexist with Horizon Client. Prerequisites n Prepare the guest operating system for remote desktop deployment. See “Prepare a Guest Operating System for Remote Desktop Deployment,” on page 22.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 9 If you selected the USB redirection option, restart the virtual machine to enable USB support. In addition, the Found New Hardware wizard might start. Follow the prompts in the wizard to configure the hardware before you restart the virtual machine. What to do next If the virtual machine has multiple NICs, configure the subnet that Horizon Agent uses. See “Configure a Virtual Machine with Multiple NICs for Horizon Agent,” on page 36.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning Table 3‑2. Horizon Agent Custom Setup Options in an IPv4 Environment (Continued) Option Description Virtual Printing Lets users print to any printer available on their client computers. Users do not have to install additional drivers on their desktops.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Install Horizon Agent Silently You can use the silent installation feature of the Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) to install Horizon Agent on several Windows virtual machines or physical computers. In a silent installation, you use the command line and do not have to respond to wizard prompts. With silent installation, you can efficiently deploy View components in a large enterprise.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning 2 Type the installation command on one line. The following example installs Horizon Agent with the components Core, VMware Blast, PCoIP, Unity Touch, VmVideo, PSG, View Composer Agent, Virtual Printing, USB redirection, and Real-Time AudioVideo components. VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 3‑4. Command-Line Options for a View Component's Bootstrap Program Option Description /s Disables the bootstrap splash screen and extraction dialog, which prevents the display of interactive dialogs. For example: VMware-viewconnectionserver-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s The /s option is required to run a silent installation.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning Table 3‑5. MSI Command-Line Options and MSI Properties (Continued) MSI Option or Property ADDLOCAL Description Determines the component-specific options to install. In an interactive installation, the View installer displays custom setup options that you can select or deselect. In a silent installation, you can use the ADDLOCAL property to selectively install individual setup options by specifying the options on the command line.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 3‑6. MSI Properties for Silently Installing Horizon Agent MSI Property Description Default Value INSTALLDIR The path and folder in which the Horizon Agent software is installed. %ProgramFiles %\VMware\VMware View\Agent For example: INSTALLDIR=""D:\abc\my folder"" The sets of two double quotes that enclose the path permit the MSI installer to ignore the space in the path. This MSI property is optional.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning Table 3‑6. MSI Properties for Silently Installing Horizon Agent (Continued) MSI Property Description Default Value VDM_FIPS_ENABLED Specifies whether to enable or disable FIPS mode. A value of 1 enables FIPS mode. A value of 0 disables FIPS mode. If this property is set to 1 and Windows is not in FIPS mode, the installer will abort.
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Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning Optimize Guest Operating System Performance You can perform certain steps to optimize guest operating system performance for remote desktop deployment. All of the steps are optional. These recommendations include turning off the screen saver and not specifying a sleep timer. Your organization might require the use of screen savers.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Use the File System Utility (fsutil) command to disable the setting that keeps track of the last time a file was accessed. For example: fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 n Start the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and change the TimeOutValue REG_DWORD in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Disk to 0x000000be(190). n Turn off the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program and disable related tasks from the Task Scheduler.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning Optimizing Windows for Instant-Clone and View Composer LinkedClone Virtual Machines By disabling certain Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10 services and tasks, you can reduce the growth in disk usage of instant clones and View Composer linked clones. Disabling certain services and tasks can also result in performance benefits for full virtual machines. Benefits of Disabling Windows Services and Tasks Windows 7, Windows 8/8.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 3‑9. Impact of Windows Services and Tasks on OS Disk Growth and IOPS Default Occurrence or Startup Impact on OS Disk Description Windows Hibernation Provides a powersaving state by storing open documents and programs in a file before the computer is powered off. The file is reloaded into memory when the computer is restarted, restoring the state when the hibernation was invoked. Default powerplan settings disable hibernation. High.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning Table 3‑9. Impact of Windows Services and Tasks on OS Disk Growth and IOPS (Continued) Default Occurrence or Startup Impact on OS Disk Impact on IOPS Turn Off This Service or Task? Service or Task Description Windows Registry Backup (RegIdleBackup) Automatically backs up the Windows registry when the system is idle. Every 10 days at 12:00 am Medium. Each time this task runs, it generates registry backup files. Medium. Yes.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Procedure 1 In vSphere Client, select the parent virtual machine and select Open Console. 2 Log in as an administrator. 3 Click Start and type defrag in the Search programs and files box. 4 In the Programs pane, click Disk Defragmenter. 5 In the Disk Defragmenter dialog box, click Defragment disk. The Disk Defragmenter consolidates defragmented files on the virtual machine's hard disk.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning 7 In the Startup type menu, select Disabled. 8 Click OK. Disable the Prefetch and Superfetch Features on Windows Virtual Machines Disabling the prefetch and superfetch features avoids some I/O operations to the file system and can reduce the growth of an instant clone's or a View Composer linked clone's virtual disk.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Disable the System Restore on Windows Virtual Machines Disabling the Windows System Restore feature avoids some I/O operations to the file system and can reduce the growth of an instant clone's or a View Composer linked clone's virtual disk. With System Restore, you can revert a machine's state to a previous point in time.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning 4 Click the Content tab. 5 Under Feeds and Web Slices, click Settings. 6 Deselect Automatically check feeds and Web Slices for updates and click OK. 7 In the Internet Properties dialog, click OK. Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine To deploy an instant-clone or a View Composer linked-clone desktop pool, you must first prepare a parent virtual machine.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n When you install Horizon Agent on the parent virtual machine, select the VMware Horizon Instant Clone Agent option for instant clones or the VMware Horizon View Composer Agent option. See “Install Horizon Agent on a Virtual Machine,” on page 26. To update Horizon Agent in a large environment, you can use standard Windows update mechanisms such as Altiris, SMS, LanDesk, BMC, or other systems management software.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning n On Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 R2 machines, disable the scheduled maintenance task that recovers disk space by removing unused features. For example: Schtasks.exe /change /disable /tn "\Microsoft\Windows\AppxDeploymentClient\Prestaged app cleanup" For example, in the case of View Composer linked clones, this maintenance task can, remove the Sysprep customization script after the linked clones are crea
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View c At the User Account Control prompt, click Continue. d At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off and press Enter. e Type exit and press Enter. Configure Local Storage for View Composer Linked Clones For a View Composer linked-clone desktop pool, you can configure the parent virtual machine to store virtual-machine swap files on a local datastore. The linked clones' swap files will reside on local storage.
Chapter 3 Creating and Preparing a Parent Virtual Machine for Cloning 6 In the Virtual memory pane, click Change. The Virtual Memory page appears. 7 Set the paging file size to a larger value than the size of the memory that is assigned to the virtual machine. Important If the Maximum size (MB) setting is smaller than the virtual-machine memory size, type a larger value and save the new value.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View See the vSphere Basic System Administration guide for information on using vSphere Client to create virtual machine templates. See “Automated Pools That Contain Full Virtual Machines,” on page 51 for information on creating automated pools. Note A virtual machine template is not for creating an instant-clone or a View Composer linked-clone desktop pool.
Creating Automated Desktop Pools That Contain Full Virtual Machines 4 With an automated desktop pool that contains full virtual machines, you create a virtual machine template and View uses that template to create virtual machines for each desktop. You can optionally create customization specifications to expedite automated pool deployments.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 4‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating an Automated Pool That Contains Full Virtual Machines 52 Option Description User assignment Choose the type of user assignment: n In a dedicated-assignment pool, each user is assigned to a machine. Users receive the same machine each time they log in to the pool. n In a floating-assignment pool, users receive different machines each time they log in.
Chapter 4 Creating Automated Desktop Pools That Contain Full Virtual Machines Table 4‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating an Automated Pool That Contains Full Virtual Machines (Continued) Option Description Desktop Pool Settings Settings that determine the desktop state, power status when a virtual machine is not in use, display protocol, Adobe Flash quality, and so on. For descriptions, see “Desktop Pool Settings for All Desktop Pool Types,” on page 135.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 4‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating an Automated Pool That Contains Full Virtual Machines (Continued) Option Description Minimum number of machines If you use a naming pattern and provision machines on demand, specify a minimum number of machines in the pool. The minimum number of machines is created when you create the pool.
Chapter 4 Creating Automated Desktop Pools That Contain Full Virtual Machines Table 4‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating an Automated Pool That Contains Full Virtual Machines (Continued) Option Description Transparent Page Sharing Scope Select the level at which to allow transparent page sharing (TPS). The choices are Virtual Machine (the default), Pool, Pod, or Global.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n If you intend to provide access to your desktops and applications through VMware Identity Manager, verify that you create the desktop and application pools as a user who has the Administrators role on the root access group in View Administrator.
Chapter 4 Creating Automated Desktop Pools That Contain Full Virtual Machines n For prerequisites for cloning an automated, full-clone pool, see “Create an Automated Pool That Contains Full Virtual Machines,” on page 55. n For prerequisites for cloning a linked-cone pool, see “Create a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool,” on page 67. Procedure 1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools. 2 Select the desktop pool that you want to clone and click Clone. The Add Desktop Pool wizard appears.
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Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools 5 With a linked-clone desktop pool, View creates a desktop pool based on a parent virtual machine that you select. The View Composer service dynamically creates a new linked-clone virtual machine in vCenter Server for each desktop.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool Option Description User assignment Choose the type of user assignment: In a dedicated-assignment pool, each user is assigned to a machine. Users receive the same machine each time they log in. n In a floating-assignment pool, users receive different machines each time they log in.
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description Stop provisioning on error You can direct View to stop provisioning or continue to provision virtual machines in a desktop pool after an error occurs during the provisioning of a virtual machine. If you leave this setting selected, you can prevent a provisioning error from recurring on multiple virtual machines.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) 62 Option Description Provision machines on demand or Provision all machines up front If you use a naming pattern, choose whether to provision all machines when the pool is created or provision machines as they are needed. n Provision all machines up front.
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description Disk size and drive letter for disposable file disk If you redirect disposable files to a nonpersistent disk, provide the disk size in megabytes and the drive letter. The disk size should be larger than page-file size of the guest OS.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) 64 Option Description Host or cluster Select the ESXi host or cluster on which the desktop virtual machines run. With Virtual SAN datastores (a vSphere 5.5 Update 1 feature), you can select a cluster with up to 20 ESXi hosts. With Virtual Volumes datastores (a vSphere 6.0 feature), you can select a cluster with up to 32 ESXi hosts. In vSphere 5.
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description Storage Overcommit Determine the storage-overcommit level at which linked-clones are created on each datastore. As the level increases, more linked clones fit on the datastore and less space is reserved to let individual clones grow.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description Initiate reclamation when unused space on VM exceeds: (Available only if you do not use Virtual SAN or Virtual Volumes) Type the minimum amount of unused disk space, in gigabytes, that must accumulate on a linked-clone OS disk to trigger space reclamation.
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools Table 5‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description AD container Provide the Active Directory container relative distinguished name. Fill In Your Value Here For example: CN=Computers When you run the Add Desktop Pool wizard, you can browse your Active Directory tree for the container.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Prerequisites n Verify that the View Composer service is installed, either on the same host as vCenter Server or on a separate host, and that a View Composer database is configured. See the View Installation document. n Verify that View Composer settings for vCenter Server are configured in View Administrator. See the View Administration document.
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools e Resource pool f Datastores In View Administrator, you can view the machines as they are added to the pool by selecting Catalog > Desktop Pools. The linked clones might restart one or more times while they are provisioned. If a linked clone is in an error state, the View automatic recovery mechanism attempts to power on, or shut down and restart, the linked clone. If repeated recovery attempts fail, the linked clone is deleted.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n For prerequisites for cloning a linked-cone pool, see “Create a Linked-Clone Desktop Pool,” on page 67. Procedure 1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools. 2 Select the desktop pool that you want to clone and click Clone. The Add Desktop Pool wizard appears. 3 On the Add Desktop Pool page, type a unique pool ID. 4 On the Provisioning Settings page, provide unique names for the virtual machines.
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Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 5‑3. View Composer Operations, Linked-Clone SIDs, and Application GUIDs Support for SIDs or GUIDs Clone Creation Refresh Recompose Sysprep: Unique SIDs for linked clones With Sysprep customization, unique SIDs are generated for linked clones. Unique SIDs are preserved. Unique SIDS are not preserved. QuickPrep: Common SIDs for linked clones With QuickPrep customization, a common SID is generated for all clones in a pool.
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools Table 5‑4. Comparing QuickPrep and Microsoft Sysprep (Continued) QuickPrep Customization Specification (Sysprep) Does not generate a new SID after linked clones are recomposed. The common SID is preserved. Runs again after linked clones are recomposed, generating new SIDs for the virtual machines. For details, see “Recomposing Linked Clones Customized with Sysprep,” on page 75. Runs faster than Sysprep. Can take longer than QuickPrep.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View In particular, QuickPrep passes the path that is specified for the script as the second parameter to the CreateProcess API and sets the first parameter to NULL. For example, if the script path is c:\myscript.cmd, the path appears as the second parameter in the function in the View Composer log file: CreateProcess(NULL,c:\myscript.cmd,...).
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege SeCreatePermanentPrivilege SeDebugPrivilege SeAuditPrivilege QuickPrep Script Logs View Composer logs contain information about QuickPrep script execution. The log records the start and end of execution and logs output or error messages. The log is located in the Windows temp directory: C:\Windows\Temp\vmware-viewcomposer-ga-new.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n If you provision machines by manually specifying a list of machine names, do not reduce the total pool size (by removing machine names) to a lower number than the minimum number of provisioned machines. In this case, View Composer maintenance operations could not take place. n If you set a large minimum number of provisioned machines in relation to the pool size, View Composer maintenance operations might take longer to complete.
Chapter 5 Creating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools Prerequisites Verify that the existing computer accounts are located in the Active Directory container that you specify with the Active Directory container setting. If the existing accounts are located in a different container, provisioning fails for linked clones with those account names, and an error message states that the existing computer accounts already exist in Active Directory.
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Creating Instant-Clone Desktop Pools 6 To provide users access to instant-clone desktops, you must create an instant-clone desktop pool.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Because View can create instant clones quickly, you do not need to provision desktops up front or have many ready desktops. Compared with View Composer linked clones, instant clones can make the task of managing large desktop pools easier and also reduce the amount of hardware resources that is required. Instant clones have the following compatibility requirements: n vSphere 6.0 Update 1 or later. n Virtual machine hardware version 11 or later.
Chapter 6 Creating Instant-Clone Desktop Pools Image Publishing and Rebalancing an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool The clones in an instant-clone desktop pool are based on the same image. When an instant clone is created, the desktop pool are rebalanced across datastores automatically. An image is a snapshot of a parent VM. Creating an instant-clone desktop pool involves the following operations: 1 View publishes the image that you select.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Worksheet for Creating an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool When you create an instant-clone desktop pool, the Add Desktop Pool wizard prompts you to configure certain options. You can use this worksheet to record your configuration options before you create the pool. Before creating an instant-clone desktop pool, take a snapshot of the parent VM. You must shut down the parent VM before taking the snapshot. The snapshot is the base image for the clones.
Chapter 6 Creating Instant-Clone Desktop Pools Table 6‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description Default display protocol Select the default display protocol. The choices are Microsoft RDP, PCoIP, and VMware Blast. Allow users to choose protocol Specify whether users can choose display protocols other than the default. HTML Access Select Enabled to allow users to connect to remote desktops from a Web browser.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 6‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description Select separate datastores for replica and OS disks Specify whether to store the replica and OS disks on a datastore that is different from the datastores that the instant clones are on. For more information, see “Storing Replicas and Clones on Separate Datastores for Instant Clones and View Composer Linked Clones,” on page 253.
Chapter 6 Creating Instant-Clone Desktop Pools 3 Select Automated Desktop Pool. 4 On the vCenter Server page, select Instant clones. 5 Follow the prompts to create the pool. Use the configuration information you gathered in the worksheet. You can go directly back to any wizard page by clicking the page name in the navigation pane. In View Administrator, you can view the desktop VMs as they are added to the pool by selecting Catalog > Desktop Pools.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View ClonePrep Script Account ClonePrep runs the scripts using the same account that the VMware Horizon Instant Clone Agent service uses. By default, this account is Local System. Do not change this login account. If you do, the clones will fail to start. ClonePrep Process Privileges For security reasons, certain Windows operating system privileges are removed from the VMware Horizon Instant Clone Agent process that runs ClonePrep customization scripts.
Chapter 6 Creating Instant-Clone Desktop Pools Parameters: n -vc host name or IP address of vCenter Server n -uid vCenter Server user ID n -password vCenter Server user password n -hostname ESXi host name n -maintenance ON|OFF This parameter specifies whether to enter maintenance mode after the parent VMs are deleted. If the host is already in maintenance mode, -maintenance OFF takes the host out of maintenance mode. All the parameters are required. IcUnprotect.
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Creating Manual Desktop Pools 7 In a manual desktop pool, each remote desktop that is accessed by an end user is a separate machine. When you create a manual desktop pool, you select existing machines. You can create a pool that contains a single desktop by creating a manual desktop pool and selecting a single machine.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 7‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Manual Desktop Pool Option Description User assignment Choose the type of user assignment: n In a dedicated-assignment pool, each user is assigned to a machine. Users receive the same machine each time they log in. n In a floating-assignment pool, users receive different machines each time they log in. Fill In Your Value Here For details, see “User Assignment in Desktop Pools,” on page 127.
Chapter 7 Creating Manual Desktop Pools Table 7‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Manual Desktop Pool (Continued) Option Description Desktop Pool Settings Settings that determine the machine state, power status when a virtual machine is not in use, display protocol, Adobe Flash quality, and so on. For details, see “Desktop Pool Settings for All Desktop Pool Types,” on page 135.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Procedure 1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools. 2 Click Add. 3 Select Manual Desktop Pool. 4 Follow the prompts in the wizard to create the pool. Use the configuration information that you gathered in the worksheet. You can go directly back to any wizard page that you completed by clicking the page name in the navigation panel.
Chapter 7 Creating Manual Desktop Pools 4 Select the type of user assignment. Option Description Dedicated The machine is assigned to one user. Only that user can log in to the desktop. Floating The machine is shared by all users who are entitled to the pool. Any entitled user can log in to the desktop as long as another user is not logged in. 5 On the Machine Source page, select the machine to be included in the desktop pool. 6 Follow the prompts in the wizard to create the pool.
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Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts 8 Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts provide desktop sessions and applications that users can access from client devices. If you plan to create RDS desktop pools or application pools, you must first set up RDS hosts.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View When users submit print jobs concurrently from RDS desktops or applications that are hosted on the same RDS host, the ThinPrint server on the RDS host processes the print requests serially rather than in parallel. This can cause a delay for some users. Note that the print server does not wait for a print job to complete before processing the next one. Print jobs that are sent to different printers will print in parallel.
Chapter 8 Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts Install Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is one of the roles that a Windows Server can have. You must install this role to set up an RDS host that runs Windows Server 2008 R2. Prerequisites n Verify that the RDS host is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). n Verify that the RDS host is part of the Active Directory domain for the Horizon 7 deployment.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 7 On the Select Features page, accept the defaults. 8 On the Select Role Services page, select Remote Desktop Session Host. 9 Follow the prompts and finish the installation. What to do next If you plan to use HTML Access or scanner redirection, install the Desktop Experience feature. The steps for installing Desktop Experience differ on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2. Restrict users to a single desktop session.
Chapter 8 Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts Restrict Users to a Single Session Horizon 7 supports at most one desktop session and one application session per user on an RDS host. You must configure the RDS host to restrict users to a single session. For Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2, you can can restrict users to a single session by enabling the group policy setting Restrict Remote Desktop Services users to a single Remote Desktop Services session.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 3 Select the Internet Protocol (IP) version, IPv4 or IPv6. You must install all View components with the same IP version. 4 Select your custom setup options. Do not select the View Composer Agent option if you are installing Horizon Agent on an RDS host that will be in a manual farm. 5 In the Server text box, type the host name or IP address of a Connection Server host.
Chapter 8 Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts Table 8‑1. Horizon Agent Custom Setup Options for an RDS Host in an IPv4 Environment (Continued) Option Description View Composer Agent Select this option if this machine is a parent virtual machine for the creation of an automated farm. Do not select this option if this machine is an RDS host in a manual farm. Client Drive Redirection Allows Horizon Client users to share local drives with their RDS desktops and applications.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Printing From a Remote Application Launched Inside a Nested Session When you enable the Virtual Printing option during Horizon Agent installation, users can print from remote applications that they launch from Horizon Client inside remote desktops (nested sessions) to printers on their local client machine. Beginning with Horizon 7 version 7.0.
Chapter 8 Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts Enable Windows Basic Theme for Applications If a user has never connected to a desktop on an RDS host, and the user launches an application that is hosted on the RDS host, the Windows basic theme is not applied to the application even if a GPO setting is configured to load the Aero-styled theme. Horizon 7 does not support the Aero-styled theme but supports the Windows basic theme.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View RDS Host Performance Options You can optimize Windows for either foreground programs or background services by setting performance options. By default, Horizon 7 disables certain performance options for RDS hosts for all supported versions of Windows Server. The following table shows the performance options that are disabled by Horizon 7. Table 8‑3.
Chapter 8 Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts With vDGA, you allocate an entire GPU to a single machine for maximum performance. The RDS host must be in a manual farm. With AMD Multiuser GPU using vDGA, you can share an AMD GPU between multiple RDS hosts by making it appear as multiple PCI passthrough devices. The RDS host must be in a manual farm. With NVIDIA GRID vGPU, each graphics card can support multiple RDS hosts and the RDS hosts must be in a manual farm.
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Creating Farms 9 A farm is a group of RDS hosts that provides a common set of applications or RDS desktops to users.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Scalability A farm can have a variable number of RDS hosts. You can create farms with different numbers of RDS hosts to serve user groups of different sizes. Farms have the following properties: n A Horizon 7 pod can have a maximum of 200 farms. n A farm can have a maximum of 200 RDS hosts. n The RDS hosts in a farm can run any supported version of Windows Server.
Chapter 9 Creating Farms n Verify that the virtual machine was not converted from a View Composer linked clone. A virtual machine that is converted from a linked clone has the clone's internal disk and state information. A parent virtual machine cannot have state information. Important Linked clones and virtual machines that were converted from linked clones are not supported as parent virtual machines.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n On Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 machines, disable the scheduled maintenance task that recovers disk space by removing unused features. For example: Schtasks.exe /change /disable /tn "\Microsoft\Windows\AppxDeploymentClient\Prestaged app cleanup" If left enabled, this maintenance task can remove the Sysprep customization script after the linked clones are created, which would cause subsequent recompose operations to fail with customiza
Chapter 9 Creating Farms 3 Disable the hibernation option. a Click Start and type cmd in the Start Search box. b In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator. c At the User Account Control prompt, click Continue. d At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off and press Enter. e Type exit and press Enter. Worksheet for Creating a Manual Farm When you create a manual farm, the Add Farm wizard prompts you to configure certain settings.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 9‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating a Manual Farm (Continued) Setting Description Log off disconnected session Determines when a disconnected session is logged off. This setting applies to both desktop and application sessions. Select Never, Immediate, or After ... minutes. Use caution when you select Immediate or After ... minutes. When a disconnected session is logged off, the session is lost. The default is Never.
Chapter 9 Creating Farms Table 9‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm (Continued) Setting Description Log off disconnected session Determines when a disconnected session is logged off. This setting applies to both desktop and application sessions. Select Never, Immediate, or After ... minutes. Use caution when you select Immediate or After ... minutes. When a disconnected session is logged off, the session is lost. The default is Never.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 9‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm (Continued) 114 Setting Description Snapshot Select the snapshot of the parent virtual machine to use as the base image for the farm. Do not delete the snapshot and parent virtual machine from vCenter Server, unless no linked clones in the farm use the default image, and no more linked clones will be created from this default image.
Chapter 9 Creating Farms Table 9‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm (Continued) Setting Description Use native NFS snapshots (VAAI) (Available only if you do not use Virtual SAN) If your deployment includes NAS devices that support the vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), you can use native snapshot technology to clone virtual machines.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 9‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm (Continued) Setting Description Domain Select the Active Directory domain and user name. View Composer requires certain user privileges to farm. The domain and user account are used by Sysprep to customize the linked-clone machines. You specify this user when you configure View Composer settings for vCenter Server.
Chapter 9 Creating Farms 4 Follow the prompts in the wizard to create the farm. Use the configuration information that you gathered in the worksheet. You can go directly back to any wizard page that you completed by clicking the page name in the navigation panel. 5 Select the RDS hosts to add to the farm and click Next. 6 Click Finish. In View Administrator, you can now view the farm by clicking Resources > Farms. What to do next Create an application pool or an RDS desktop pool.
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Creating Application Pools 10 One of the tasks that you perform to give users remote access to an application is to create an application pool. Users who are entitled to an application pool can access the application remotely from a variety of client devices.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Worksheet for Creating an Application Pool Manually When you create an application pool and manually specify an application, the Add Application Pools wizard prompts you for information about the application. It is not a requirement that the application is already installed on any RDS host. You can print this worksheet and write down the properties of an application when you specify the application manually. Table 10‑1.
Chapter 10 Creating Application Pools What to do next Entitle users to access the pool. See Chapter 13, “Entitling Users and Groups,” on page 159. Make sure that your end users have access to Horizon Client 3.0 or later software, which is required to support RDS applications. If you need to ensure that View Connection Server launches the application only on RDS hosts that have sufficient resources to run the application, configure an anti-affinity rule for the application pool.
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Creating RDS Desktop Pools 11 One of the tasks that you perform to give users remote access to session-based desktops is to create a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktop pool. An RDS desktop pool has properties that can satisfy some specific needs of a remote desktop deployment.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n RDS desktops do not support View Persona Management. n The copy and paste feature is disabled by default for HTML Access. To enable the feature, see "HTML Access Group Policy Settings" in the chapter "Configuring HTML Access for End Users" in the Using HTML Access document, available from https://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
Chapter 11 Creating RDS Desktop Pools Configure Adobe Flash Throttling with Internet Explorer for RDS Desktop Pools To ensure that Adobe Flash throttling works with Internet Explorer in RDS desktops, users must enable third-party browser extensions. Procedure 1 Start Horizon Client and log in to a user's desktop. 2 In Internet Explorer, click Tools > Internet Options. 3 Click the Advanced tab, select Enable third-party browser extensions, and click OK. 4 Restart Internet Explorer. VMware, Inc.
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Provisioning Desktop Pools 12 When you create a desktop pool, you select configuration options that determine how the pool is managed and how users interact with the desktops. These provisioning tasks apply to desktop pools that are deployed on single-user machines. They do not apply to RDS desktop pools. However, the Adobe Flash quality and throttling settings apply to all types of desktop pools, including RDS.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Naming Machines Manually or Providing a Naming Pattern With an automated desktop pool of full virtual machines or View Composer linked clones, you can specify a list of names for the desktop machines or provide a naming pattern. With an instant-clone desktop pool, you can only specify a naming pattern when provisioning the pool.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Table 12‑1. Naming machines Manually or Providing a machine-Naming Pattern (Continued) Feature Using a Machine-Naming Pattern Naming Machines Manually Dynamic or fixed pool size Dynamic. If you remove a user assignment from a machine in a dedicated-assignment pool, the machine is returned to the pool of available machines.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View In this example, two machines are specified. The second machine is associated with a user: Desktop-001 Desktop-002,abccorp.com\jdoe Note In a floating-assignment pool, you cannot associate user names with machine names. The machines are not dedicated to the associated users. In a floating-assignment pool, all machines that are not currently in use remain accessible to any user who logs in. Prerequisites Make sure that each machine name is unique.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Table 12‑2. Maximum Length of the Naming Pattern in a Machine Name If You Set This Number of Machines in the Pool This Is the Maximum Prefix Length 1-99 13 characters 100-999 12 characters 1,000 or more 11 characters Names that contain fixed-length tokens have different length limits. See “Length of the Naming Pattern When You Use a Fixed-Length Token,” on page 131.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 2 In View Administrator, create the pool and specify machine names manually. 3 Click Enter Names and copy your list into the Enter Machine Names list box. 4 Repeat these steps for the second pool, using the names VDIABC-11 through VDIABC-20. For detailed instructions, see “Specify a List of Machine Names,” on page 129. You can add machines to each pool after it is created.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools In this example, two machines are added. The second machine is associated with a user: Desktop-001 Desktop-002,abccorp.com/jdoe Note In a floating-assignment pool, you cannot associate user names with machine names. The machines are not dedicated to the associated users. In a floating-assignment pool, all machines that are not currently in use remain accessible to any user who logs in.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Customizing Machines in Maintenance Mode Maintenance mode prevents users from accessing their desktops. If you start machines in maintenance mode, View places each machine in maintenance mode when the machine is created. In a dedicated-assignment pool, you can use maintenance mode to log in to a machine without having to reassign ownership to your own administrator account.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Desktop Pool Settings for All Desktop Pool Types You must specify machine and desktop pool settings when you configure automated pools that contain full virtual machines, linked-clone desktop pools, manual desktop pools, instant-clone desktop pools, and RDS desktop pools. Not all settings apply to all types of desktop pools. Table 12‑4. Desktop Pool Setting Descriptions Setting Options State n n Enabled.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 12‑4. Desktop Pool Setting Descriptions (Continued) Setting Options Delete or refresh machine on logoff Select whether to delete, refresh, or leave alone floating-assignment, linked-clone virtual machines. n Never. Virtual machines remain in the pool and are not refreshed after users log off. n Delete immediately. Virtual machines are powered off and deleted as soon as users log off.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Table 12‑4. Desktop Pool Setting Descriptions (Continued) Setting Options 3D Renderer You can select whether to enable 3D graphics rendering if your pool comprises Windows 7 or later desktops. You can configure the 3D Renderer to use software rendering or hardware rendering based on physical GPU graphics cards installed on ESXi 5.1 or later hosts.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 12‑4. Desktop Pool Setting Descriptions (Continued) Setting Options Max resolution of any one monitor If you select PCoIP or VMware Blast as the display protocol, you should specify the Maximum resolution of any one monitor. The Maximum resolution of any one monitor is set to 1920 x 1200 pixels by default, but you can configure this value.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Table 12‑4. Desktop Pool Setting Descriptions (Continued) Setting Options Override global Mirage settings To specify the same Mirage server for all desktop pools, use the global View configuration setting rather than this pool-specific setting. Not available to instant-clone desktop pools. Mirage Server configuration Allows you to specify the URL of a Mirage server, using the format mirage://server-name:port or mirages://server-name:port.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Setting Power Policies for Desktop Pools You can configure a power policy for the virtual machines in a desktop pool if the virtual machines are managed by vCenter Server except instant clones. Instant clones are always powered on. Power policies control how a virtual machine behaves when its associated desktop is not in use. A desktop is considered not in use before a user logs in and after a user disconnects or logs off.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Table 12‑7. Power Policies (Continued) Power Policy Description Suspend The virtual machine enters a suspended state when a user logs off, but not when a user disconnects. You can also configure machines in a dedicated pool to be suspended when a user disconnects without logging off. To configure this policy, you must set an attribute in View LDAP. See “Configure Dedicated Machines To Be Suspended After Users Disconnect,” on page 142.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 12‑8. When View Applies the Power Policy (Continued) Desktop Pool Type The power policy is applied ... Manual pool with dedicated assignment To unassigned machines only. On assigned machines, power operations are initiated by session management. Virtual machines are powered on when a user requests an assigned machine and are powered off or suspended when the user logs off.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools The Horizon Agent service running on the machine confirms the availability of the machine to View Connection Server. When you configure an automated pool, you can specify the minimum and maximum number of virtual machines that must be provisioned and the number of spare machines that must be kept powered on and available at any given time.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Power Policy Example for Automated Pools with Dedicated Assignments Unlike a powered-on machine in an automated pool with floating assignments, a powered-on machine in an automated pool with dedicated assignments is not necessarily available. It is available only if the machine is not assigned to a user. Table 12-11 describes the dedicated-assignment, automated pool in this example. Table 12‑11.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Configuring 3D Rendering for Desktops When you create or edit a desktop pool of virtual machines, you can configure 3D graphics rendering for your desktops. Desktops can take advantage of Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA), Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration (vDGA), or shared GPU hardware acceleration (NVIDIA GRID vGPU).
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Requirements for All Types of 3D Rendering To enable 3D graphics rendering, your pool deployment must meet the following requirements: n The virtual machines must be Windows 7 or later. n The pool must use PCoIP or VMware Blast Extreme as the default display protocol. n Users must not be allowed to choose their own protocol.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Additional Requirements for Using vDGA vDGA dedicates a single physical GPU on an ESXi host to a single virtual machine. To support vDGA, a pool must meet these additional requirements: n The virtual machines must run on ESXi 5.5 or later hosts, be virtual hardware version 9 or later, and be managed by vCenter Server 5.5 or later software.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Video RAM Configuration Options for the 3D Renderer When you enable the 3D Renderer setting, if you select the Automatic, Software, or Hardware option, you can configure the amount of VRAM that is assigned to the virtual machines in the pool by moving the slider in the Configure VRAM for 3D guests dialog box. The minimum VRAM size is 64MB. The default VRAM amount depends on the virtual hardware version: n For virtual hardware version 8 (vSphere 5.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Table 12‑12. 3D Renderer Options for Pools Running on vSphere 5.1 or Later Option Description Manage using vSphere Client The 3D Renderer option that is set in vSphere Web Client (or vSphere Client in vSphere 5.1 or later) for a virtual machine determines the type of 3D graphics rendering that takes place. View does not control 3D rendering. In the vSphere Web Client, you can configure the Automatic, Software, or Hardware options.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 12‑12. 3D Renderer Options for Pools Running on vSphere 5.1 or Later (Continued) Option Description NVIDIA GRID vGPU 3D rendering is enabled for NVIDIA GRID vGPU . The ESXi host reserves GPU hardware resources on a first-come, first-served basis as virtual machines are powered on.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools When to Choose the Automatic Option The Automatic option is the best choice for many View deployments that require 3D rendering. vSGA (Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration)-enabled virtual machines can dynamically switch between software and hardware 3D rendering, without your having to reconfigure. This option ensures that some type of 3D rendering takes place even when GPU resources are completely reserved. In a mixed cluster of ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View When to Choose the NVIDIA GRID vGPU Option With the NVIDIA GRID vGPU option, you can achieve a higher consolidation ratio of virtual machines on an NVIDIA GRID vGPU-enabled ESXi host than is possible by using vDGA, while maintaining the same performance level. As with vDGA (Dedicated Virtual Graphics), the ESXi and virtual machine also use GPU pass-through for NVIDIA GRID vGPU.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Preparing for vDGA Capabilities Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration (vDGA) provides direct pass-through to a physical GPU, providing a user with unrestricted, dedicated access to a single vGPU. Before you attempt to create a desktop pool that has vDGA capabilities, you must perform certain configuration tasks on the virtual machines and ESXi hosts.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 7 Configure virtual machine video card 3D capabilities. 8 Obtain the GPU drivers from the GPU vendor and install the GPU device drivers in the guest operating system of the virtual machine. 9 Install VMware Tools and Horizon Agent in the guest operating system and reboot. After you perform these tasks, you must add the virtual machine to a manual pool View desktop pool so that you can access the guest operating system using PCoIP.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Configuring AMD Multiuser GPU Using vDGA You use the esxcfg-module command-line command to configure such parameters as the number of users who can share the GPU, the amount of frame buffer allocated to each user, and some performance control. Syntax esxcfg-module -s "adapter1_conf=bus#,device#,function#,number_of_VFs,FB_size,time_slice,mode" amdgpuv Usage Notes The vicfg-module command supports setting and retrieving VMkernel module options on an ESXi host.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Examples 1 For a single AMD S7150 card on PCI ID 4 shared between 8 users: esxcfg-module -s "adapter1_conf=4,0,0,8,1024,4000" amdgpuv 2 For a single server with two AMD S7150 cards on PCI ID 4 and PCI ID 82 shared between 4 power users: esxcfg-module -s "adapter1_conf=3,0,0,2,4096,4000 adapter2_conf=130,0,0,2,4096,4000" amdgpuv 3 For a single server with two AMD S7150 cards, you can set each card with different parameters.
Chapter 12 Provisioning Desktop Pools Procedure 1 Select PCoIP as the display protocol that you want View Connection Server to use to communicate with Horizon Client devices. Option Description Create a desktop pool a b In View Administrator, start the Add Desktop Pool wizard. On the Desktop Pool Settings page, select VMware Blast or PCoIP as the default display protocol. Edit an existing desktop pool a b In View Administrator, select the desktop pool and click Edit.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n If you store View Composer persistent disks on separate datastores, the persistent disks can be configured on NFS or VMFS datastores. In vSphere 4.1 and earlier releases, you can deploy desktop pools only with clusters that contain eight or fewer hosts. Assigning Multiple Network Labels to a Desktop Pool In View 5.2 and later releases, you can configure an automated desktop pool to use multiple network labels.
Entitling Users and Groups 13 You configure entitlements to control which remote desktops and applications your users can access. You can configure the restricted entitlements feature to control desktop access based on the View Connection Server instance that users connect to when they select remote desktops. You can also restrict access to a set of users outside the network from connecting to remote desktops and applications within the network.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 3 Click Add, select one or more search criteria, and click Find to find users or groups based on your search criteria. Note Domain local groups are filtered out of search results for mixed-mode domains. You cannot entitle users in domain local groups if your domain is configured in mixed mode. 4 Select the users or groups you want to entitle to the desktops or applications in the pool and click OK. 5 Click OK to save your changes.
Chapter 13 Entitling Users and Groups When users log in through a tagged View Connection Server instance, they can access only those desktop pools that have at least one matching tag or no tags. Note You cannot configure the restricted entitlements feature to restrict access to remote applications. n Restricted Entitlement Example on page 161 This example shows a View deployment that includes two View Connection Server instances. The first instance supports internal users.
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Chapter 13 Entitling Users and Groups Considerations and Limitations for Restricted Entitlements Before implementing restricted entitlements, you must be aware of certain considerations and limitations. n A single View Connection Server instance or desktop pool can have multiple tags. n Multiple View Connection Server instances and desktop pools can have the same tag. n Desktop pools that do not have any tags can be accessed by any View Connection Server instance.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Procedure 1 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools. 2 Select the pool that you want to assign a tag to. 3 4 5 Option Action Assign a tag to a new pool Click Add to start the Add Desktop Pool wizard and define and identify the pool. Assign a tag to an existing pool Select the pool and click Edit. Go to the Desktop Pool Settings page.
Chapter 13 Entitling Users and Groups 2 Click the Remote Access tab. 3 Click Add and select one or more search criteria, and click Find to find users or groups based on your search criteria. 4 To provide remote access for a user or group, select a user or group and click OK. 5 To remove a user or group from remote access, select the user or group, click Delete, and click OK. VMware, Inc.
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Configuring Remote Desktop Features 14 Certain remote desktop features that are installed with Horizon Agent can be updated in Feature Pack Update releases as well as in core View releases. You can configure these features to enhance the remote desktop experience of your end users. These features include HTML Access, Unity Touch, Flash URL Redirection, Real-Time Audio-Video, Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR), USB Redirection, Scanner Redirection, and Serial Port Redirection.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View System Requirements for Unity Touch Horizon Client software and the mobile devices on which you install Horizon Client must meet certain version requirements to support Unity Touch. View desktop Horizon Client software Mobile device operating systems To support Unity Touch, the following software must be installed in the virtual machine that the end user will access: n You install the Unity Touch feature by installing View Agent 6.0 or later.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features n Run the Horizon Agent installer from the command line on the virtual machines Note Unity Touch assumes that shortcuts to applications are located in the Programs folder in the Start menu. If any shortcut is located outside of the Programs folder, attach the prefix Programs to the shortcut path. For example, Windows Update.lnk is located in the ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu folder.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n (Optional) Create a default list of favorite applications by creating an administrative installation package from the Horizon Agent installer. a From the command line, use the following format to create the administrative installation package. VMware-viewagent-x86_64-y.y.y-xxxxxx.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features The Flash URL redirection feature uses a JavaScript that is embedded inside an HTML Web page by the Web page administrator. Whenever a remote desktop user clicks on the designated URL link from within a Web page, the JavaScript intercepts and redirects the SWF file from the remote desktop session to the client endpoint. The endpoint then opens a local Flash Projector outside of the remote desktop session and plays the media stream locally.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Horizon Client software The following Horizon Client releases support multicast and unicast: n Horizon Client 2.2 for Linux or a later release n Horizon Client 2.2 for Windows or a later release The following Horizon Client releases support multicast only (they do not support unicast): Horizon Client computer or client access device n Horizon Client 2.0 or 2.1 for Linux n Horizon Client 5.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features Set Up the Web Pages That Provide Multicast or Unicast Streams To allow Flash URL redirection to take place, you must embed a JavaScript command in the MIME HTML (MHTML) Web pages that provide links to the multicast or unicast streams. Users display these Web pages in the browsers on their remote desktops to access the video streams.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Procedure u Install Adobe Flash Player on your client devices. Operating System Action Windows Install Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later for Internet Explorer. Linux a Install the libexpat.so.0 file, or verify that this file is already installed. Ensure that the file is installed in the /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib directory. b Install the libflashplayer.so file, or verify that this file is already installed.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features Table 14‑1. Comparison of the Flash Redirection Feature and Flash URL Redirection Item of Differentiation Flash Redirection Flash URL Redirection Support level A Tech Preview feature in Horizon 7.0 with no technical support. Fully supported in Horizon 7.0.1. Fully supported Horizon Client types that support this feature Windows client only Windows client and Linux client Display protocol In Horizon 7.0, PCoIP only. In Horizon 7.0.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Requirements for Flash Redirection With Flash Redirection, if you use Internet Explorer 9, 10, or 11, Flash content is sent to the client system. The client system plays the media content, which reduces the load on the ESXi host. Remote desktop n Horizon Agent 7.0 or later must be installed in a single-user (VDI) remote desktop, with the Flash Redirection option. The Flash Redirection option is not selected by default.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features n Verify that the Horizon Agent Configuration ADM Template (vdm_agent.adm file) has been added to the OU for the remote desktop. See “Add View ADM Templates to a GPO,” on page 307. n Compile a list of the Web sites that will use this feature to redirect Flash content. This list is a white list, meaning that only the URLs specified in this list will be able to use this feature. n Verify that Flash ActiveX is installed and works properly.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 5 In the Group Policy Management Editor, edit the Flash Redirection policy settings under User Configuration. The settings are located in the User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Classic Administrative Templates > VMware Horizon Agent Configuration > VMware FlashMMR folder. a Open the setting for making a list of host URLs that you want to use with Flash redirection and select the Enabled radio button. b Click the Show button.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features Procedure 1 Use Horizon Client to access the remote desktop (agent machine). 2 Open the Windows Registry Editor (regedit.exe) on the agent machine, navigate to the following folder, and set FlashRedirection to 1: HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware FlashMMR Note This setting enables the Flash Redirection feature, but if this setting is disabled (set to 0) in HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware FlashMMR, it means Flash Redirection is disabled domain-wi
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Configuring URL Content Redirection With URL Content Redirection, you can configure specific URLs to always open on the client or in a remote desktop or application. You can redirect URLs that users type in Internet Explorer's address bar, and links in an application that users can click. You can configure any number of protocols, such as HTTP, mailto, and callto, for redirection.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features n If users create favorites from Web pages, the favorites get created after redirection. For example, say a user clicks a link on the client machine and the URL is redirected to a remote desktop (agent). If the user creates a favorite for that page, the favorite gets created on the agent.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Machines that have secure boot enabled will leave the URL Content Redirection feature disabled. URLs cannot be redirected from these machines. URLs can, however, be redirected to these machines. Installing Horizon Client with the URL Content Redirection Feature To support URL Content Redirection from a client to a remote desktop or application (client-to-agent redirection), you must install Horizon Client with the URL Content Redirection feature.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features n Familiarize yourself with the URL Content Redirection group policy settings. See “VMware Horizon URL Content Redirection Template Settings,” on page 183. Procedure 1 Download the View GPO Bundle .zip file from the VMware download site at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the GPO Bundle. The file is named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Entry Description .* (Dot-star) Specifies that all URLs should be redirected. If you use this setting for the agentRules option, all URLs are redirected to the agent side, which means URLs are opened in a remote desktop or application. If you use this setting for the clientRules option, the specified URLs are redirected to the client. .*.acme.com;.*.example.com Specifies that all URLs that have the text .acme.com or example.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features To redirect URLs to a remote desktop or application pool, you must also specify which pool to use. Use the brokerHostname option to specify the IP address or fully qualified domain name of the connection server, and use the remoteItem option to specify the display name of the desktop or application pool, as shown in View Administrator. If the URL is redirected to a remote desktop, the link is opened in the default browser for that desktop.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 14‑2. Horizon URL Content Redirection Template Settings (Continued) Setting Properties Url Redirection Protocol 'email' For all URLs that use the email or mailto protocol, specifies the URLs that should be redirected. The options are the same as for Url Redirection Protocol 'http'. This setting is disabled by default. Url Redirection Protocol '[...]' This is a template that you can modify for any additional protocol.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features For information about supported applications, see the VMware knowledge base article, Guidelines for Using Real-Time Audio-Video with 3rd-Party Applications on Horizon View Desktops, at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2053754. System Requirements for Real-Time Audio-Video Real-Time Audio-Video works with standard webcam, USB audio, and analog audio devices, and with standard conferencing applications like Skype, WebEx, and Google Hangouts.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Ensuring That Real-Time Audio-Video Is Used Instead of USB Redirection Real-Time Audio-Video supports webcam and audio input redirection for use in conferencing applications. The USB redirection feature that can be installed with Horizon Agent does not support webcam redirection.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features With the Real-Time Audio-Video feature, video devices, audio input devices, and audio output devices work without requiring the use of USB redirection, and the amount of network bandwidth required is greatly reduced. Analog audio input devices are also supported. Note If you are using a USB webcam or microphone, do not connect it from the Connect USB Device menu in Horizon Client.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Prerequisites n Verify that you have a USB microphone or another type of microphone installed and operational on your client system. n Verify that you are using the VMware Blast display protocol or the PCoIP display protocol for your remote desktop. Procedure 1 On your client system, select Apple menu > System Preferences and click Sound. 2 Open the Input pane of Sound preferences. 3 Select the microphone that you prefer to use.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features Table 14‑3. Command Syntax for Real-Time Audio-Video Configuration (Continued) Command Description defaults read com.vmware.rtav Displays Real-Time Audio-Video configuration settings. defaults delete com.vmware.rtav setting Deletes a Real-Time Audio-Video configuration setting, for example: defaults delete com.vmware.rtav srcWCamFrameWidth Note You can adjust frame rates from 1 fps up to a maximum of 25 fps and resolution up to a maximum of 1920x1080.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 2 Find log entries for the webcam or microphone in the Real-Time Audio-Video log file. a In a text editor, open the Real-Time Audio-Video log file. The Real-Time Audio-Video log file is named ~/Library/Logs/VMware/vmware-RTAV-pid.log, where pid is the process ID of the current session. b Search the Real-Time Audio-Video log file for entries that identify the attached webcams or microphones.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features The next time you connect to a remote desktop and start a new call, the desktop uses the preferred webcam or microphone that you configured, if it is available. If the preferred webcam or microphone is not available, the remote desktop can use another available webcam or microphone. Select a Default Microphone on a Linux Client System If you have multiple microphones on your client system, only one of them is used on your View desktop.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Prerequisites Depending on whether you are configuring a preferred webcam, preferred microphone, or both, perform the appropriate prerequisite tasks: n Verify that you have a USB webcam installed and operational on your client system. n Verify that you have a USB microphone or another type of microphone installed and operational on your client system.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features 2 Find log entries for the webcam or microphone. a Open the debug log file with a text editor. The log file with real-time audio-video log messages is located at /tmp/vmware-/vmwareRTAV-.log. The client log is located at /tmp/vmware-/vmware-view-.log. b Search the log file to find the log file entries that reference the attached webcams and microphones.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 3 Copy the description of the device and use it to set the appropriate property in the /etc/vmware/config file. ® ® For a webcam example, copy Microsoft LifeCam HD-6000 for Notebooks and Microsoft LifeCam HD-6000 for Notebooks#/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3/1-3.6 to specify the Microsoft webcam as the preferred webcam and set the properties as follows: ® rtav.srcWCamName = “Microsoft LifeCam HD-6000 for Notebooks” ® rtav.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features n Familiarize yourself with RTAV group policy settings. See “Real-Time Audio-Video Group Policy Settings,” on page 197. Procedure 1 Download the View GPO Bundle .zip file from the VMware download site at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the GPO Bundle. The file is named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, where x.x.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Group Policy Setting Description Disable RTAV When you enable this setting, the Real-Time Audio-Video feature is disabled. When this setting is not configured or disabled, Real-Time Audio-Video is enabled. This setting is located in the View RTAV Configuration folder. Max frames per second Determines the maximum rate per second at which the webcam can capture frames.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features Table 14‑4. Sample Bandwidth Results for Sending Real-Time Audio-Video Data from Horizon Client to Horizon Agent Image Resolution (Width x Height) Bandwidth Used (Kbps) 160 x 120 225 320 x 240 320 640 x 480 600 Configuring Scanner Redirection By using scanner redirection, View users can scan information in their remote desktops and applications with scanning and imaging devices that are connected locally to their client computers.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Windows Server 2012 R2 configured as a desktop or RDS host Important The Desktop Experience feature must be installed on Windows Server guest operating systems, whether they are configured as desktops or as RDS hosts. The scanner device drivers do not have to be installed on the desktop operating system where Horizon Agent is installed. Horizon Client software Horizon Client 3.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features You can also control these features by configuring scanner redirection group policy settings in Active Directory. See “Scanner Redirection Group Policy Settings,” on page 202. n When you operate a TWAIN scanner, the TWAIN Scanner Redirection for VMware Horizon menu provides additional options for selecting regions of an image, scanning in color, black and white, or grayscale, and choosing other common functions.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Procedure 1 Download the View GPO Bundle .zip file from the VMware download site at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the GPO Bundle. The file is named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, where x.x.x is the version and yyyyyyy is the build number. All ADM and ADMX files that provide group policy settings for View are available in this file.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features Group Policy Setting Compression Description Sets the image compression rate during the image transfer to the remote desktop or application. You can choose from the following compression modes: n Disable. Image compression is disabled. Lossless. Lossless (zlib) compression is used without loss of image quality. JPEG. JPEG compression is used with loss of quality. You specify the level of image quality in the JPEG compression quality field.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Configuring Serial Port Redirection With serial port redirection, users can redirect locally connected, serial (COM) ports such as built-in RS232 ports or USB to Serial adapters. Devices such as printers, bar code readers, and other serial devices can be connected to these ports and used in the remote desktops. Serial port redirection is available in Horizon 6 version 6.1.1 and later releases with Horizon Client for Windows 3.4 and later releases.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features This feature is not currently supported for Windows Server RDS hosts. Serial port device drivers do not have to be installed on the desktop operating system where the agent is installed. Horizon Client computer or client access device Display protocol for View n Serial port redirection is supported on Windows 7, Windows 8.x client systems, and Windows 10.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View In the COM Properties dialog box, you can configure a port to connect automatically when a remote desktop session is started, ignore the Data Set Ready (DSR) signal, and map the local port on the client to a different COM port on the remote desktop by selecting a port in the Custom port name drop-down list. A remote desktop port might be shown as overlapped. For example, you might see COM1 (Overlapped).
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features These policy settings affect your remote desktops, not the client systems where the physical COM port devices are connected. To configure these settings on your desktops, add the Serial Port Redirection Group Policy Administrative Template (ADM) file in Active Directory. Add the Serial Port Redirection ADM Template in Active Directory You can add the policy settings in the serial port redirection ADM file, vdm_agent_serialport.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Serial Port Redirection Group Policy Settings The serial port redirection group policy settings control the redirected COM port configuration, including the options that are available in the Serial COM Redirection for VMware Horizon menu on remote desktops. The serial port redirection ADM file contains both Computer Configuration and User Configuration policies.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features Group Policy Setting Description PortSettings Determines the mapping between the COM port on the client system and the redirected COM port on the remote desktop and determines other settings that affect the redirected COM port. You configure each redirected COM port individually. Five PortSettings policy settings are available, PortSettings1 through PortSettings5, allowing up to five COM ports to be mapped from the client to the remote desktop.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Group Policy Setting Description Lock configuration Locks the serial port redirection user interface and prevents users from changing configuration options on the remote desktop. When you enable this setting, users cannot configure the options that are available from the tool tray menu on their desktops. Users can display the Serial COM Redirection for VMware Horizon menu, but the options are inactive and cannot be changed.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features 8 Click OK and close the Group Policy Object Editor. USB to Serial adapters can be redirected to remote desktops, and can receive data successfully, when users start their next desktop sessions. Managing Access to Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR) View provides the Windows Media MMR feature for VDI desktops that run on single-user machines and for RDS desktops. MMR delivers the multimedia stream directly to client computers.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n 64-bit or 32-bit Windows 8/8.1 Professional or Enterprise (singleuser machine) n Windows Server 2008 R2 configured as an RDS host n Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 configured as an RDS host n 3D Rendering can be enabled or disabled on the desktop pool. n Users must play videos on Windows Media Player 12 or later or in Internet Explorer 8 or later. To use Internet Explorer, you must disable Protected Mode.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features 2 Navigate to the Windows registry key that controls the redirection policy. The registry key that you configure for a remote desktop depends on the bit version of the Windows Media Player. Option Description 64-bit Windows Media Player n For a 64-bit desktop, use the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMware,Inc.\VMware tsmmr 32-bit Windows Media Player n For a 32-bit desktop, use the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMware,Inc.\VMware
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Prerequisites If your View deployment includes a back-end firewall between your DMZ-based security servers and your internal network, verify that the back-end firewall allows traffic to port 9427 on your single-user and RDS desktops. TCP connections on port 9427 are required to support client drive redirection. For Horizon Client 4.2 or Horizon 7 version 7.0.
Chapter 14 Configuring Remote Desktop Features If you set name to *all, all client drives are shared with the remote desktop. The *all setting is supported only on Windows client systems. HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\default shares\1st\name=*all To prevent the client from sharing additional folders (that is, folders that are not specified with the default shares key), create a string value named ForcedByAdmin and set its value to true. HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\ForcedByAdmin=true W
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 216 n To filter out Microsoft Word-related text formatting when users copy data from their client systems to remote desktops and from remote desktops to their client systems, enable the incoming group policy settings Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the incoming clipboard data and Filter Rich Text Format data out of the incoming clipboard data, and the outgoing group policy settings Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the outgoing clipboard
Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications 15 Administrators can configure the ability to use USB devices, such as thumb flash drives, cameras, VoIP (voice-over-IP) devices, and printers, from a remote desktop. This feature is called USB redirection, and it supports using the Blast Extreme, PCoIP, or Microsoft RDP display protocol. A remote desktop can accommodate up to 128 USB devices.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n “Using Log Files for Troubleshooting and to Determine USB Device IDs,” on page 223 n “Using Policies to Control USB Redirection,” on page 224 n “Troubleshooting USB Redirection Problems,” on page 234 Limitations Regarding USB Device Types Although View does not explicitly prevent any devices from working in a remote desktop, due to factors such as network latency and bandwidth, some devices work better than others.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications For Horizon 7 version 7.0.2, you can redirect signature pads, dictation foot pedals, and some Wacom tablets to an RDS desktop or application. By default, these devices are disabled. To enable these devices, delete the Windows registry key settings ExcludeAllDevices and IncludeFamily from the following path: HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc\VMware VDM\Agent\USB.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Network Traffic and USB Redirection USB redirection works independently of the display protocol (RDP or PCoIP) and USB traffic usually uses TCP port 32111. Network traffic between a client system and a remote desktop or application can travel various routes, depending on whether the client system is inside the corporate network and how the administrator has chosen to set up security.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications Video feature. In some cases, a USB device might not be excluded from redirection by default but might require administrators to explicitly exclude the device from redirection. For example, the following types of USB devices are not good candidates for USB redirection and must not be automatically connected to a remote desktop: n USB Ethernet devices.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Use Smart Policies to create a policy that disables the USB redirection Horizon Policy setting. With this approach, you can disable USB redirection on a specific remote desktop if certain conditions are met. For example, you can configure a policy that disables USB redirection when users connect to a remote desktop from outside your corporate network.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications By default, View blocks certain device families from being redirected to the remote desktop or application. For example, HID (human interface devices) and keyboards are blocked from appearing in the guest. Some released BadUSB code targets USB keyboard devices. You can prevent specific device families from being redirected to the remote desktop or application.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 15‑2. Log File Locations (Continued) Client or Agent Path to Log Files Mac OS X client /var/root/Library/Logs/VMware/vmware-view-usbd-xxxx.log /Library/Logs/VMware/vmware-usbarbitrator-xxxx.log Linux client (Default location) /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-view-usbd-*.log If a problem with the device occurs after the device is redirected to the remote desktop or application, examine both the client- and agent-side logs.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications Configuring Device Splitting Policy Settings for Composite USB Devices Composite USB devices consist of a combination of two or more different devices, such as a video input device and a storage device or a microphone and a mouse device.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Manual Device Splitting You can use the Split Vid/Pid Device policy to specify the vendor and product IDs of a composite USB device that you want to split. You can also specify the interfaces of the components of a composite USB device that you want to exclude from redirection. View does not apply any filter policy settings to components that you exclude in this way.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications n For Horizon Agent, se the Exclude VidPid From Split policy to o:vid-xxx_pid-yyyy, where xxx and yyyy are the appropriate IDs. Allow automatic device splitting for desktops and specify policies for splitting specific devices on client computers: n For Horizon Agent, set the Allow Auto Device Splitting policy to Allow - Override Client Setting.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Interaction of Client-Interpreted USB Settings The following table shows the modifiers that specify how Horizon Client handles a Horizon Agent filter policy setting for a client-interpreted setting. Table 15‑8. Filter Modifiers for Client-Interpreted Settings Modifier Description Default (d in the registry setting) If a Horizon Client filter policy setting does not exist, Horizon Client uses the Horizon Agent filter policy setting.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications 4 Include Vid/Pid Device 5 Exclude Device Family 6 Include Device Family 7 Allow Audio Input Devices, Allow Audio Output Devices, Allow HIDBootable, Allow HID (Non Bootable and Not Mouse Keyboard), Allow Keyboard and Mouse Devices, Allow Smart Cards, and Allow Video Devices 8 Combined effective Exclude All Devices policy evaluated to exclude or include all USB devices You can set Exclude Path and Include Path filter policy setting
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n For all users in a desktop pool, block audio and video devices to ensure that these devices will always be available for the Real-Time Audio-Video feature. Use an agent-side setting:: Exclude Device Family: o:video;audio Note that another strategy would be to exclude specific devices by vendor and product ID.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications Table 15‑10. USB Device Families (Continued) Device Family Name Description wireless Wireless networking adapters. wusb Wireless USB devices. USB Settings in the Horizon Agent Configuration ADM Template You can define USB policy settings for both Horizon Agent and Horizon Client.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 15‑11. Horizon Agent Configuration Template: Device-Splitting Settings Setting Allow Auto Device Splitting Property: AllowAutoDeviceSplitting Exclude Vid/Pid Device From Split Property: SplitExcludeVidPid Properties Allows the automatic splitting of composite USB devices. The default value is undefined, which equates to false. Excludes a composite USB device specified by vendor and product IDs from splitting.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications Table 15‑12. Horizon Agent Configuration Template: Agent-Enforced Settings Setting Properties Exclude All Devices Property: ExcludeAllDevices Excludes all USB devices from being forwarded. If set to true, you can use other policy settings to allow specific devices or families of devices to be forwarded. If set to false, you can use other policy settings to prevent specific devices or families of devices from being forwarded.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 15‑13. Horizon Agent Configuration Template: Client-Interpreted Settings (Continued) Setting Properties Allow Other Input Devices Allows input devices other than hid-bootable devices or keyboards with integrated pointing devices to be forwarded. The default value is undefined. Allow Keyboard and Mouse Devices Property: AllowKeyboardMouse Allows keyboards with integrated pointing devices (such as a mouse, trackball, or touch pad) to be forwarded.
Chapter 15 Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications n For some USB HIDs, you must configure the virtual machine to update the position of the mouse pointer. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022076. n Some audio devices might require changes to policy settings or to registry settings. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1023868. n Network latency can cause slow device interaction or cause applications to appear frozen because they are designed to interact with local devices.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 236 VMware, Inc.
Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements 16 Deploying desktops on virtual machines that are managed by vCenter Server provides all the storage efficiencies that were previously available only for virtualized servers. Using instant clones or View Composer linked clones as desktop machines increases the storage savings because all virtual machines in a pool share a virtual disk with a base image.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Compatible vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 or Later Features With vSphere 5.0 or a later release, you can use the following features: n With the View storage accelerator feature, you can configure ESXi hosts to cache virtual machine disk data. Using this content-based read cache (CBRC) can reduce IOPS and improve performance during boot storms, when many machines start up and run anti-virus scans at the same time.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements Virtual Volumes also lets you manage virtual machine storage and performance by using storage policy profiles in vSphere. These storage policy profiles dictate storage services on a per-virtual-machine basis. This type of granular provisioning increases capacity utilization. You can deploy a desktop pool on a cluster that contains up to 32 ESXi hosts.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 3 To move existing View Composer desktop pools from another type of datastore to a Virtual SAN datastore, in View Administrator, edit the pool to deselect the old datastore and select the Virtual SAN datastore instead, and use the Rebalance command. This operation is not possible for automated farms because you cannot rebalance an automated farm .
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements Default Storage Policy Profiles for Virtual SAN Datastores When you use Virtual SAN, View defines virtual machine storage requirements, such as capacity, performance, and availability, in the form of default storage policy profiles, which you can modify. Storage is provisioned and automatically configured according to the assigned policies. The default policies that are created during desktop pool creation depend on the type of pool you create.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Using Virtual Volumes for Virtual-Machine-Centric Storage and Policy-Based Management With Virtual Volumes (VVols), available with vSphere 6.0 or a later release, an individual virtual machine, not the datastore, becomes a unit of storage management. The storage hardware gains control over virtual disk content, layout, and management. With Virtual Volumes, abstract storage containers replace traditional storage volumes based on LUNs or NFS shares.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements Reducing Storage Requirements with Instant Clones The instant clones feature leverages vSphere vmFork technology (available with vSphere 6.0U1 and later) to quiesce a running base image, or parent virtual machine, and hot-clone it to create a pool of up to 2,000 instant clones. Not only do instant clones share the virtual disks with the parent virtual machine at the time of creation, instant clones also share the memory of the parent.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Reducing Storage Requirements with View Composer Because View Composer creates desktop images that share virtual disks with a base image, you can reduce the required storage capacity by 50 to 90 percent. View Composer uses a base image, or parent virtual machine, and creates a pool of up to 2,000 linked-clone virtual machines.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements Storage Sizing for Instant-Clone and View Composer Linked-Clone Desktop Pools View provides high-level guidelines that can help you determine how much storage an instant-clone or linked-clone desktop pool requires. A table in the Add Desktop Pool wizard shows a general estimate of the desktop pool's storage requirements.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 16‑1. Example Sizing Table for OS and Persistent Disks Data Type Selected Free Space (GB) Min Recommended (GB) 50% Utilization (GB) Max Recommended (GB) OS disks 184.23 40.00 80.00 130.00 Persistent disks 28.56 4.00 10.00 20.00 The Selected Free Space column shows the total available space on all of the datastores that you selected for a disk type such as OS disks.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements In the minimum recommendation for OS disks, View also includes space for two replicas on each datastore. View Composer creates one replica when a pool is created. When the pool is recomposed for the first time, View Composer creates a second replica on the datastore, anchors the clones to the new replica, and deletes the first replica if no other clones are using original snapshot.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 16‑2.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements Table 16‑4.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 16‑6. Storage Overcommit Levels Option Storage Overcommit Level None Storage is not overcommitted. Conservative 4 times the size of the datastore. This is the default level. Moderate 7 times the size of the datastore. Aggressive 15 times the size of the datastore. Storage overcommit levels provide a high-level guide for determining storage capacity. To determine the best level, monitor the growth of linked clones in your environment.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements 5 6 Select the storage overcommit level from the drop-down menu. Option Description None Storage is not overcommitted. Conservative 4 times the size of the datastore. This is the default level. Moderate 7 times the size of the datastore. Aggressive 15 times the size of the datastore. Unbounded View does not limit the number of linked-clone machines that it creates based on the physical capacity of the datastore.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View When the linked clone is powered off, View replaces the disposable-data disk with a copy of the original disk that View Composer created with the linked-clone pool. Linked clones can increase in size as users interact with their desktops. Using disposable-data disks can save storage space by slowing the growth of linked clones. The disposable-data disk is stored on the same datastore as the OS disk.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements If you intend to take advantage of the benefits of local storage, you must carefully consider the consequences of not having VMotion, HA, DRS, and other features available. If you manage local disk usage by controlling the number and disk growth of the virtual machines, if you use floating assignments and perform regular refresh and delete operations, you can successfully deploy linked clones to local datastores.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Configure View Storage Accelerator for View Composer Linked Clones You can configure View Composer linked-clone desktop pools to enable ESXi hosts to cache virtual machine disk data. This feature, called View Storage Accelerator, uses the Content Based Read Cache (CBRC) feature in ESXi hosts. View Storage Accelerator can reduce IOPS and improve performance during boot storms, when many machines start up or run anti-virus scans at once.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements Procedure 1 2 In View Administrator, display the Advanced Storage Options page. Option Description New desktop pool (recommended) Start the Add Desktop Pool wizard to begin creating an automated desktop pool. Follow the wizard configuration prompts until you reach the Advanced Storage page. Existing desktop pool Select the existing pool, click Edit, and click the Advanced Storage tab.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View You can use the vdmadmin -M option to initiate disk space reclamation on a particular virtual machine for demonstration or troubleshooting purposes. See the View Administration document. You can configure disk space reclamation on linked clones when you create a new pool or edit an existing pool. For an existing pool, see "Tasks for Upgrading Pools to Use Space Reclamation" in the View Upgrades document.
Chapter 16 Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements 3 In the Initiate reclamation when unused space on VM exceeds text box, type the minimum amount of unused disk space, in gigabytes, that must accumulate on a linked-clone OS disk before ESXi starts reclaiming space on that disk. For example: 2 GB. The default value is 1 GB. What to do next You can configure blackout days and times during which disk space reclamation and regeneration for View Storage Accelerator do not take place.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Native NFS snapshot technology (VAAI) is not supported on virtual machines with space-efficient disks. n This feature is not available if you use a Virtual SAN datastore or a Virtual Volumes datastore. n See VMware Knowledge Base (KB) article 2061611 for answers to frequently asked questions about VCAI support in View. Important NAS storage vendors might provide additional settings that can affect the performance and operation of VAAI.
Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools 17 You can configure policies to control the behavior of desktop and application pools, machines, and users. You use View Administrator to set policies for client sessions. You can use Active Directory group policy settings to control the behavior of Horizon Agent, Horizon Client for Windows, and features that affect single-user machines, RDS hosts, PCoIP, or VMware Blast.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Configure Global Policy Settings You can configure global policies to control the behavior of all client sessions users. Prerequisites Familiarize yourself with the policy descriptions. See “View Policies,” on page 261. Procedure 1 In View Administrator, select Policies > Global Policies. 2 Click Edit policies in the View Policies pane. 3 Click OK to save your changes.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools View Policies You can configure View policies to affect all client sessions, or you can apply them to affect specific desktop pools or users. Table 17-1 describes each View policy setting. Table 17‑1. View Policies Policy Description Multimedia redirection (MMR) Determines whether MMR is enabled for client systems.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Installing User Environment Manager To use Smart Policies to control the behavior of remote desktop features on a remote desktop, you must install User Environment Manager 9.0 or later on the remote desktop. You can download the User Environment Manager installer from the VMware Downloads page. You must install the VMware UEM FlexEngine client component on each remote desktop that you want to manage with User Environment Manager.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Horizon Smart Policy Settings You control the behavior of remote desktop features in User Environment Manager by creating a Horizon smart policy. Table 17-2 describes the settings that you can select when you define a Horizon smart policy in User Environment Manager. Table 17‑2. Horizon Smart Policy Settings Setting Description USB redirection Determines whether USB redirection is enabled on the remote desktop.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Bandwidth Profile Reference With Smart Policies, you can use the Bandwidth profile policy setting to configure a bandwidth profile for PCoIP or Blast sessions on remote desktops. Table 17‑3.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑4. Predefined Properties for the Horizon Client Property Condition Property Corresponding Registry Key Description Client location ViewClient_Broker_GatewayLocation Specifies the location of the user's client system.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Using Other Conditions The User Environment Manager Management Console provides many conditions. The following conditions can be especially useful when creating policies for remote desktop features. Group Member You can use this condition to configure the policy to take effect only if a user is a member of a specific group.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools 3 Select the Settings tab and define the smart policy settings. a In the General Settings section, type a name for the smart policy in the Name text box. For example, if the smart policy will affect the client drive redirection feature, you might name the smart policy CDR. b In the Horizon Smart Policy Settings section, select the remote desktop features and settings to include in the smart policy.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Enabling Loopback Processing for Remote Desktops By default, a user's policy settings come from the set of GPOs that are applied to the user object in Active Directory. However, in the View environment, GPOs should apply to users based on the computer they log in to. When you enable loopback processing, a consistent set of policies applies to all users that log in to a particular computer, regardless of their location in Active Directory.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑5. View ADM and ADMX Template Files (Continued) Template Name Template File Description VMware Horizon URL Redirection urlRedirection-enUS.adm Contains policy settings related to the URL Content Redirection Feature.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Horizon Agent Configuration ADM Template Settings The Horizon Agent Configuration ADM template file (vdm_agent.adm) contains policy settings related to the authentication and environmental components of Horizon Agent. This ADM file is available in a bundled .zip file named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, which you can download from the VMware download site at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑6. Horizon Agent Configuration Template Settings (Continued) Setting Computer ConnectionTicketTimeout X Specifies the amount of time in seconds that the View connection ticket is valid. Horizon Client devices use a connection ticket for verification and single sign-on when connecting to the agent. For security reasons, a connection ticket is valid for a limited amount of time.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 17‑6. Horizon Agent Configuration Template Settings (Continued) Setting Computer Toggle Display Settings Control X DPI Synchronization X User Properties Determines whether to disable the Settings tab in the Display control panel when a client session uses the PCoIP display protocol. This setting is enabled by default. X Adjusts the system-wide DPI setting for the remote session.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17-7 describes the registry keys that contain client system information and lists the types of desktops and client systems that support them. If Yes appears in the Supports Nested Mode column, it indicates that physical client information (rather than virtual machine information) is sent to a second-hop desktop. Table 17‑7.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 17‑7. Client System Information (Continued) Supports Nested Mode Description ViewClient_Broker_Tunnel_U RL The URL of the View Connection Server tunnel connection, if the tunnel connection is enabled. VDI (single-user machine) RDS Value is sent directly from View Connection Server, not gathered by Horizon Client. ViewClient_Broker_Remote_I P_Address The IP address of the client system that is seen by the View Connection Server instance.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑7. Client System Information (Continued) Supports Nested Mode Supported Desktops Supported Client Systems Registry Key Description ViewClient_Mouse.NumButton s Specifies the number of buttons supported by the mouse. VDI (single-user machine) RDS Windows ViewClient_Mouse.SampleRat e Specifies the rate, in reports per second, at which input from a PS/2 mouse is sampled.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View PCoIP Policy Settings The PCoIP ADM template file (pcoip.adm) contains policy settings related to the PCoIP display protocol. You can configure settings to default values that can be overridden by an administrator, or you can configure settings to non-overridable values. This ADM file is available in a bundled .zip file named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, which you can download from the VMware download site at https://my.vmware.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools PCoIP General Settings The View PCoIP ADM template file contains group policy settings that configure general settings such as PCoIP image quality, USB devices, and network ports. Table 17‑8. PCoIP General Policy Settings Setting Description Configure PCoIP client image cache size policy Controls the size of the PCoIP client image cache. The client uses image caching to store portions of the display that were previously transmitted.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 17‑8. PCoIP General Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Configure PCoIP image quality levels Controls how PCoIP renders images during periods of network congestion. The Minimum Image Quality, Maximum Initial Image Quality, and Maximum Frame Rate values interoperate to provide fine control in network-bandwidth constrained environments.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑8. PCoIP General Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Configure PCoIP session encryption algorithms Controls the encryption algorithms advertised by the PCoIP endpoint during session negotiation. Checking one of the check boxes disables the associated encryption algorithm. You must enable at least one algorithm. This setting applies to both agent and client.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 17‑8. PCoIP General Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Configure PCoIP USB allowed and unallowed device rules Specifies the USB devices that are authorized and not authorized for PCoIP sessions that use a zero client that runs Teradici firmware. USB devices that are used in PCoIP sessions must appear in the USB authorization table. USB devices that appear in the USB unauthorization table cannot be used in PCoIP sessions.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑8. PCoIP General Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Configure PCoIP virtual channels Specifies the virtual channels that can and cannot operate over PCoIP sessions. This setting also determines whether to disable clipboard processing on the PCoIP host. Virtual channels that are used in PCoIP sessions must appear on the virtual channel authorization list.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 17‑8. PCoIP General Policy Settings (Continued) 282 Setting Description Configure the TCP port to which the PCoIP host binds and listens Specifies the TCP agent port bound to by software PCoIP hosts. The TCP port value specifies the base TCP port that the agent attempts to bind to. The TCP port range value determines how many additional ports to try if the base port is not available. The port range must be between 1 and 10.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑8. PCoIP General Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Enable access to a PCoIP session from a vSphere console Determines whether to allow a vSphere Client console to display an active PCoIP session and send input to the desktop. By default, when a client is attached through PCoIP, the vSphere Client console screen is blank and the console cannot send input.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View PCoIP Clipboard Settings The View PCoIP ADM template file contains group policy settings that configure clipboard settings for copy-and-paste operations. Table 17‑9. PCoIP Clipboard Policy Settings 284 Setting Description Configure clipboard memory size on server (in kilobytes) Specifies the server's clipboard memory size value, in kilobytes. The client also has a value for the clipboard memory size.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑9. PCoIP Clipboard Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Filter Microsoft Chart and Smart Art data out of the incoming clipboard data Specifies whether Microsoft Office Chart and Smart Art data (Art::GVML ClipFormat) is filtered out of the clipboard data coming from the client to the agent. When this setting is enabled and the check box is selected, the data is filtered out.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View PCoIP Bandwidth Settings The View PCoIP ADM template file contains group policy settings that configure PCoIP bandwidth characteristics. Table 17‑10. View PCoIP Session Bandwidth Variables Setting Description Configure the maximum PCoIP session bandwidth Specifies the maximum bandwidth, in kilobits per second, in a PCoIP session. The bandwidth includes all imaging, audio, virtual channel, USB, and control PCoIP traffic.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑10. View PCoIP Session Bandwidth Variables (Continued) Setting Description Configure the PCoIP session MTU Specifies the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size for UDP packets for a PCoIP session. The MTU size includes IP and UDP packet headers. TCP uses the standard MTU discovery mechanism to set MTU and is not affected by this setting. The maximum MTU size is 1500 bytes. The minimum MTU size is 500 bytes.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View PCoIP Keyboard Settings The View PCoIP ADM template file contains group policy settings that configure PCoIP settings that affect the use of the keyboard. Table 17‑11. View PCoIP Session Variables for the Keyboard Setting Description Disable sending CAD when users press Ctrl+Alt+Del When this policy is enabled, users must press Ctrl+Alt+Insert instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del to send a Secure Attention Sequence (SAS) to the remote desktop during a PCoIP session.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools You can turn on the build-to-lossless feature by disabling the Turn off Build-to-Lossless feature group policy setting. See “PCoIP Bandwidth Settings,” on page 286. VMware Blast Policy Settings The VMware Blast group policy template file vdm_blast.adm contains policy settings for the VMware Blast display protocol. After the policy is applied, the settings are stored in the registry key HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\config
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 17‑12. VMware Blast Policy Settings (Continued) 290 Setting Description HTTP Service Specifies the port that is used for secure communication (HTTPS) between the security server or Access Point appliance and a desktop. The firewall must be configured to have this port open. The default is 22443. Audio playback Specifies whether audio playback is enabled for remote desktops. This setting is to enable audio playback.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑12. VMware Blast Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Filter Microsoft Office text data out of the incoming clipboard data Specifies whether Microsoft Office text format data (BIFF12 format) is filtered out of the clipboard data coming from the client to the agent. When this setting is enabled and the check box is selected, the data is filtered out. When this setting is disabled or not configured, the data is allowed.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Max Frame Rate n Image Quality For all other VMware Blast policies, Microsoft GPO update rules apply. GPOs can be updated manually or by restarting the Horizon Agent machine. For more information, see the Microsoft documentation. Enabling Lossless Compression for VMware Blast You can enable the VMware Blast display protocol to use an encoding approach called progressive build, or build-to-lossless.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools 3 Select one of the following configurations from the RDS Per Device CAL Storage Options drop-down menu. Option Description Save only on Broker The Per Device CALs are saved only on Broker. Note The LDAP entry, cs-enablerdslicensing=true and sendRdsLicense=false. Save on both Clients and Broker The Per Device CALs are stored on both Clients and Broker. Note The LDAP entries cs-enablerdslicensing=true and sendRdsLicense=true.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View RDS Application Compatibility Settings The RDS Application Compatibility group policy settings control Windows installer compatibility, remote desktop IP virtualization, network adapter selection, and the use of the RDS host IP address. Table 17‑13.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools RDS Connections Settings The RDS Connections group policy setting lets you disable Fair Share CPU Scheduling. Table 17‑14.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View RDS Licensing Settings The RDS Licensing group policy settings control the order in which RDS license servers are located, whether problem notifications are displayed, and whether Per User or Per Device licensing is used for RDS Client Access Licenses (CALs). Table 17‑16.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑16. RDS Licensing Group Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the licensing mode that is specified during the installation of Remote Desktop Session Host role service or specified in the Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration tool is used. VMware, Inc.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View RDS Profiles Settings The RDS Profiles group policy settings control roaming profile and home directory settings for Remote Desktop Services sessions. Table 17‑17. RDS Profiles Group Policy Settings Setting Description Limit the size of the entire roaming user profile cache This policy setting allows you to limit the size of the entire roaming user profile cache on the local drive.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑17. RDS Profiles Group Policy Settings (Continued) Setting Description Use mandatory profiles on the RD Session Host server This policy setting allows you to specify whether Remote Desktop Services uses a mandatory profile for all users connecting remotely to the RD Session Host server.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View RDS Remote Session Environment Settings he RDS Remote Session Environment group policy settings control configuration of the user interface in Remote Desktop Services sessions. Table 17‑18. RDS Remote Session Environment Group Policy Settings Setting Description Remove Windows Security item from Start menu Specifies whether to remove the Windows Security item from the Settings menu on Remote Desktop clients.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools RDS Temporary Folders Settings The RDS Connections group policy settings control the creation and deletion of temporary folders for Remote Desktop Services sessions. Table 17‑20. RDS Temporary Folders Group Policy Settings Setting Description Do not delete temp folder upon exit Specifies whether Remote Desktop Services retains a user's per-session temporary folders at logoff.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View In Horizon 6.0.1 and later, location-based printing is supported on the following remote desktops and applications: n Desktops that are deployed on single-user machines, including Windows Desktop and Windows Server machines n Desktops that are deployed on RDS hosts, where the RDS hosts are virtual machines n Hosted Apps n Hosted Apps that are launched from Horizon Client inside remote desktops In Horizon 6.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Register the Location-Based Printing Group Policy DLL File Before you can configure the group policy setting for location-based printing, you must register the DLL file TPVMGPoACmap.dll. The 32-bit and 64-bit versions of TPVMGPoACmap.dll are available in a bundled .zip file named VMwareHorizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, where x.x.x is the version and yyyyyyy is the build number.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Procedure 1 On the Active Directory server, edit the GPO. AD Version Navigation Path Windows 2003 a b c d Windows 2008 a b Select Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers. Right-click the OU that contains your View desktops and select Properties. On the Group Policy tab, click Open to open the Group Policy Management plug-in.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools Table 17‑21. Translation Table Columns and Values Column Description IP Range A translation rule that specifies a range of IP addresses for client systems. To specify IP addresses in a specific range, use the following notation: ip_address-ip_address For example: 10.112.116.0-10.112.119.255 To specify all of the IP addresses in a specific subnet, use the following notation: ip_address/subnet_mask_bits For example: 10.112.4.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 17‑22. Location-Based Printing Group Policy Setting Example IP Range Client Name Mac Address User/ Group Printer Name Printer Driver * * * * PRINTER-1-CLR HP Color LaserJet 4700 PS IP_10.114.24.1 10.112.116.140-10.1 12.116.145 * * * PRINTER-2-CLR HP Color LaserJet 4700 PS IP_10.114.24.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools What to do next Create GPOs for View group policies. Create GPOs for View Group Policies Create GPOs to contain group policies for View components and location-based printing and link them to the OU for your View machines. Prerequisites n Create an OU for your View machines. n Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View The steps for opening the Group Policy Management Console differ in the Windows 2012, Windows 2008, and Windows 2003 Active Directory versions. See “Create GPOs for View Group Policies,” on page 307. Procedure 1 Download the View GPO Bundle .zip file from the VMware download site at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the GPO Bundle.
Chapter 17 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools 5 6 VMware, Inc. Select Enabled and then select a loopback processing mode from the Mode drop-down menu. Option Action Merge The user policy settings applied are the combination of those included in both the computer and user GPOs. Where conflicts exist, the computer GPOs take precedence. Replace The user policy is defined entirely from the GPOs associated with the computer. Any GPOs associated with the user are ignored.
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Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management 18 With View Persona Management, you can configure user profiles that are dynamically synchronized with a remote profile repository. This feature gives users access to a personalized desktop experience whenever they log in to a desktop. View Persona Management expands the functionality and improves the performance of Windows roaming profiles, but does not require Windows roaming profiles to operate.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View A user profile comprises a variety of user-generated information: n User-specific data and desktop settings n Application data and settings n Windows registry entries configured by user applications Also, if you provision desktops with ThinApp applications, the ThinApp sandbox data can be stored in the user profile and roamed with the user. View Persona Management minimizes the time it takes to log in to and log off of desktops.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management Users of standalone laptops can disconnect from the network. When a user reconnects, View Persona Management uploads the latest changes in the user's local profile to the remote profile repository. Note Before a user can go offline, the user profile must be completely downloaded to the local system.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 18‑1. User Profile Migration Scenarios If This Is Your Original Deployment... And This Is Your Destination Deployment...
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management Table 18‑1. User Profile Migration Scenarios (Continued) If This Is Your Original Deployment... And This Is Your Destination Deployment... Windows XP physical computers or virtual machines that use a roaming user profile solution.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Persona Management and Windows Roaming Profiles When Persona Management is enabled, you cannot manage View users' personas by using the Windows roaming profiles functions.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management 5 If you configured a network share for the remote profile repository, enable the Persona repository location group policy setting and specify the network share path. 6 (Optional) Configure other group policy settings in Active Directory or the Local Computer Policy configuration. 7 Create desktop pools from the virtual machines on which you installed Horizon Agent with the View Persona Management setup option.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 18‑2. Minimum NTFS Permissions Required for the User Profile Repository and Redirected Folder Share User Account Minimum Permissions Required Creator Owner Full Control, Subfolders and Files Only Administrator None. Instead, enable the Windows group policy setting, Add the Administrators security group to the roaming user profiles. In the Group Policy Object Editor, this policy setting is located in Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management Install Horizon Agent with the View Persona Management Option To use View Persona Management with View desktops, you must install Horizon Agent with the View Persona Management setup option on the virtual machines that you use to create desktop pools. For an automated pool, you install Horizon Agent with the View Persona Management setup option on the virtual machine that you use as a parent or template.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Verify that you can log in as an administrator on the system. n Verify that View Agent 5.x or later is not installed on the computer. n Verify that a native RTO Virtual Profiles 2.0 is not installed on the virtual machine. n If you intend to perform a silent installation, familiarize yourself with the MSI installer command-line options. See “Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options,” on page 31.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management For example, you might create one OU for View machines with View Persona Management and another OU for physical computers on which the standalone View Persona Management software is installed. For an example of implementing Active Directory group policies in View, see “Active Directory Group Policy Example,” on page 306.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Add the Persona Management ADM Template to Active Directory To configure View Persona Management for your deployment, you can add the Persona Management ADM Template file to a Group Policy Object (GPO) in your Active Directory server. Prerequisites n Create GPOs for your View Persona Management deployment and link them to the OU that contains the View machines that use View Persona Management. See “Active Directory Group Policy Example,” on page 306.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management Add the Persona Management ADMX Template File to Active Directory or a Single System You can add the Persona Management ADMX Template file to your Active Directory server or to a single system. Prerequisites n Verify that Horizon Agent is installed with the View Persona Management setup option. See “Install Horizon Agent with the View Persona Management Option,” on page 319. n Verify that gpedit.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Prerequisites n Familiarize yourself with the Manage user persona and Persona repository location group policy settings. See “Roaming and Synchronization Group Policy Settings,” on page 330. n If you are setting group policies on a local system, familiarize yourself with opening the Group Policy window. See steps Step 3 and Step 4 in “Add the Persona Management ADM Template to a Single System,” on page 321.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management 8 If an Active Directory user profile path is configured in your deployment, determine whether to use or override this path. Option Action Use the network share. Check the Override Active Directory user profile path if it is configured check box. Use an Active Directory user profile path, if one exists. Do not check the Override Active Directory user profile path if it is configured check box. 9 Click OK.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Best Practices for Configuring a View Persona Management Deployment You should follow best practices for configuring View Persona Management to enhance your users' desktop experience, improve desktop performance, and ensure that View Persona Management operates efficiently with other View features.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management Using the Windows Event Log to Monitor the View Persona Management Deployment To help you manage your deployment, View Persona Management provides improved log messages and profile size and file and folder count tracking. View Persona Management uses the file and folder counts to suggest folders for redirection in the Windows event log and provides statistics for these folders.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View As a best practice, disable the Windows Offline Files feature before you begin using View Persona Management. If you encounter issues with View Persona Management because Windows Client-Side Caching is in effect on your desktops, you can resolve these issues by synchronizing the profile data that currently resides in the local Client-Side Caching database and disabling the Windows Offline Files feature.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management As a best practice, notify your users to make sure that their user profiles are completely downloaded before they disconnect from the network. Tell users to wait for the Background download complete notice to appear on their laptop screens before they disconnect.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 18‑4.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management Group Policy Setting Description Remove local persona at log off Deletes each user's locally stored profile from the View machine when the user logs off. You can also check a box to delete each user's local settings folders when the user profile is removed. Checking this box removes the AppData\Local folder. For guidelines for using this setting, see “Best Practices for Configuring a View Persona Management Deployment,” on page 326.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Group Policy Setting Enable background download for laptops Description Downloads all files in the user profile when a user logs in to a laptop on which the View Persona Management software is installed. Files are downloaded in the background. When the operation is complete, a pop-up notification appears on the user's screen: Background download complete.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management The following rules and guidelines apply to folder redirection: n When you enable this setting for a folder, you must type the UNC path of the network share to which the folder is redirected. n If %username% is not part of the folder path that you configure, View Persona Management appends %username% to the UNC path.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Downloads n Favorites n History n Links n My Documents n My Music n My Pictures n My Videos n Network Neighborhood n Printer Neighborhood n Recent Items n Save Games n Searches n Start Menu n Startup Items n Templates n Temporary Internet Files Table 18‑5.
Chapter 18 Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management Procedure 1 Set ownership for the administrator on the files and folders. icacls "\\file-server\persona-share\*" /setowner "domain\admin" /T /C /L /Q For example: icacls "\\myserver-123abc\folders\*" /setowner "mycompanydomain\vcadmin" /T /C /L /Q 2 Modify the ACLs for the files and folders. icacls "\\file-server\persona-share\*" /grant "admin-group":F /T /C /L /Q For example: icacls "\\myserver-123abc\folders\*" /grant "Domain-Admins":
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Group Policy Setting Logging filename Description Specifies the full pathname of the local View Persona Management log file. The default path is ProgramData\VMware\VDM\logs\filename. The default logging filename is VMWVvp.txt. 336 Logging destination Determines whether to write all log messages to the log file, the debug port, or both destinations. By default, logging messages are sent to the log file.
Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools 19 You can use a variety of procedures to diagnose and fix problems that you encounter when you create and use machines and desktop pools. Users might experience difficulty when they use Horizon Client to access desktops and applications. You can use troubleshooting procedures to investigate the causes of such problems and attempt to correct them yourself, or you can obtain assistance from VMware Technical Support.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View What to do next The action that you should take depends on the problem that View Administrator reports for a machine. n If a linked-clone machine is in an error state, the View automatic recovery mechanism attempts to power on, or shut down and restart, the linked clone. If repeated recovery attempts fail, the linked clone is deleted. In certain situations, a linked clone might be repeatedly deleted and recreated.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools Cause This can happen occasionally when a replica Connection Server is started while another Connection Server is doing image operations. Solution n If the error occurs during pool creation, enable provisioning if it is disabled. If it is enabled, disable and then enable it. n If the error occurs during a push image operation, initiate another push image operation with the same image.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View 2 From View Administrator, delete the clones. Pool Creation Fails if Customization Specifications Cannot Be Found If you try to create a desktop pool, the operation fails if the customization specifications cannot be found. Problem You cannot create a desktop pool, and you see the following message in the event database.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools Cause This problem has a number of possible causes. n A template is not accessible. n The name of a template has been changed in vCenter. n A template has been moved to a different folder in vCenter. n A virtual machine image has been moved between ESX/ESXi hosts, or it has been deleted. Solution n Verify that the template is accessible. n Verify that the correct name and folder are specified for the template.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n Provisioning error occurred on Pool Desktop_ID because available free disk space is reserved for linked clones n Provisioning error occurred on Pool Desktop_ID because of a resource problem Cause You do not have permission to access the selected datastore, or the datastore being used for the pool is out of disk space. Solution n Verify that you have sufficient permissions to access the selected datastore.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools Cause The most likely cause of this problem is that there is not enough disk space to start the virtual machine. A virtual machine must start before customization can take place. Solution n Delete the virtual machine to recover from a stuck customization. n If the disk is full, free up space on the disk or migrate the datastore to a larger disk.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Take these steps: 1 2 Verify that the View Composer service is running.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools n If most machines are healthy, select the desktop pool in View Administrator, click Edit, select the vCenter Settings tab, select the new snapshot as a default base image, and save your edits. New linked-clone machines are created using the new snapshot. For full clones, resolve errors in the virtual machine, generate a new template, and recreate the pool.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Finding and Unprotecting Unused View Composer Replicas Under certain conditions, View Composer replicas might remain in vCenter Server when they no longer have any linked clones associated with them. Problem An unused replica remains in a vCenter Server folder. You are unable to remove the replica by using vSphere Client.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools 2 From a Windows command prompt on the View Composer computer, run the SviConfig FindUnusedReplica command in the following form: sviconfig -operation=findunusedreplica -DsnName=name of the DSN -Username=Database administrator username -Password=Database administrator password [-ReplicaFolder=Replica folder name] [-UnusedReplicaFolder=Unused replica folder name.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Table 19‑1. View Composer Provisioning Errors (Continued) Error Description 6 Errors not covered by other error codes. The View Composer agent log files in the guest OS can provide more information about the causes of these errors. For example, a Windows Plug and Play (PnP) timeout can generate this error code. In this situation, View Composer times out after waiting for the PnP service to install new volumes for the linked-clone virtual machine.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools Troubleshooting Network Connection Problems You can use a variety of procedures for diagnosing and fixing problems with network connections with machines, Horizon Client devices, and View Connection Server instances. Connection Problems Between Machines and View Connection Server Instances You might experience connection problems between machines and View Connection Server instances.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Connection Problems Between Horizon Client and the PCoIP Secure Gateway You might experience connection problems between Horizon Client and a security server or View Connection Server host when the PCoIP Secure Gateway is configured to authenticate external users that communicate over PCoIP. Problem Clients that use PCoIP cannot connect to or display View desktops.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools c Select Use PCoIP Secure Gateway for PCoIP connections to machine. The PCoIP Secure Gateway is disabled by default. d n Click OK. In View Administrator, make sure that the PCoIP External URL is configured correctly. a Click View Configuration > Servers. b Select the host to configure. n If your users connect to the PCoIP Secure Gateway on a security server, select the security server on the Security Servers tab.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n The ports for JMS, RDP, or AJP13 communication being blocked by firewall rules. n The failure of the JMS router on the View Connection Server host. Solution n At a command prompt on the machine, type the nslookup command. nslookup CS_FQDN CS_FQDN is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the View Connection Server host.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools Cause The following are possible causes for USB redirection failing to function correctly or as expected. n The device is a composite USB device and one of the devices it includes is blocked by default. For example, a dictation device that includes a mouse is blocked by default because mouse devices are blocked by default. To work around this problem, see “Configuring Device Splitting Policy Settings for Composite USB Devices,” on page 225.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View n In View Administrator, go to Policies > Global Policies, and verify that USB access is set to Allow under View Policies. n Examine the log on the guest for entries of class ws_vhub, and the log on the client for entries of class vmware-view-usbd. Entries with these classes are written to the logs if a user is not an administrator, or if the USB redirection drivers are not installed or are not working.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools n View Administrator shows that a desktop machine or an RDS host is stuck in a deleting state. n You cannot delete a desktop pool or an automated farm. n You cannot delete a desktop machine or an RDS host. n In View Administrator's Inventory tab, the status of a desktop machine or an RDS host is missing.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View Parameter Description --disableDesktop Disables a desktop pool or farm. --findMachine Finds a machine. --removeMachine Removes a machine from a desktop pool or farm. Before removing a machine, ViewDbChk prompts the user to disable the desktop pool or farm. After removing the machine, ViewDbChk prompts the user to re-enable the desktop pool or farm.
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktop Pools Removing ThinApp entitlements for machine "/vdi/vm/lc-pool2/lc-pool2-2"... Removing machine "/vdi/vm/lc-pool2/lc-pool2-2" from LDAP... Running delete VM scripts for machine "/vdi/vm/lc-pool2/lc-pool2-2"... Do you want to enable the desktop pool "lc-pool2"? (yes/no):yes Further Troubleshooting Information You can find further troubleshooting information in VMware Knowledge Base articles.
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Index Numerics 3D renderer, configuring 145, 148, 150 A access permissions, shared folders for Persona Management 317 Active Directory, using existing computer accounts for linked clones 76 ADM Template file adding to a local system 321 adding to Active Directory 322 installing 320 ADM template file Real-Time Audio-Video 196 scanner redirection 201 serial port redirection 207 ADM template files Horizon Agent Configuration 270 PCoIP Session Variables 276 PCoIP session bandwidth settings 286 View components
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View CommandsToRunOnConnect group policy setting 275 composite USB devices 225 configuring RDS per device CAL 292 connection issues between Horizon Client and the PCoIP Secure Gateway 350 between machines and View Connection Server 349, 351 linked-clone machines with static IP addresses 352 connection ticket timeout 270 connections, troubleshooting 349 custom setup options Horizon Agent 17, 28 installing Horizon Agent on an RDS host 100 customization specificatio
Index F farms creating 107 creating a manual farm 116 creating an automated farm 117 introduction 9 worksheet for creating a manual farm 111 worksheet for creating an automated farm 112 Favorite Applications, configuring 168 Fibre Channel SAN arrays 237 Flash Redirection 174, 176, 178 Flash URL Redirection configuring 170 disabling 174 enabling 174 setting up clients 173 system requirements 171 verifying installation 172 floating-assignment desktop pools 10 floating-assignment pools choosing a user assignm
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View iSCSI SAN arrays 237 K keyboard settings, PCoIP session variables 288 kiosk mode 13 KMS license keys, volume action on linked clones 47, 110 Knowledge Base articles, where to find 357 knowledge workers 12 L laptops installing View Persona Management 312 Persona Management configuration 328 licensing, RDS group policy settings 296 linked clones 244 linked-clone desktop creation cloning a pool 56, 69 desktop settings 70 storage sizing 245 understanding 59 us
Index N naming desktop pools example 131 manually specifying names 129 naming machines manually specifying names 128 providing a naming pattern 128 naming patterns, linked-clone machines 130 NAS arrays 237 NAS devices, native NFS snapshots 257 network connections, troubleshooting 349 network labels, configuring for a pool 158 network share access permissions for Persona Management 317 guidelines for creating 318 NFS datastores, clusters with more than eight hosts 157 NVIDIA GRID vGPU 145, 148, 150 O orpha
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View power policies automated desktop pools 143, 144 avoiding conflicts 144 machines and pools 140 power-off script, customizing linked-clone machines 73 preferred microphone 188 preferred webcam 188 prefetch and superfetch, disabling 43 printing, location-based 301 problem machines, displaying 337 product ID 223 Q QuickPrep customization errors 347 customization scripts 73 increasing timeout limit for customization scripts 49 troubleshooting customization failu
Index configuring 199 group policy settings 201, 202 system requirements 199 user features 200 security 14 security server, connection problems to the PCoIP Secure Gateway 350 security servers, restricted entitlements limitations 163 sending messages to desktop users 338 serial port redirection ADM template file 207 configuring 204 configuring group policies 206 group policy settings 208 guidelines 206 user operation 205 shared folders, access permissions for Persona Management 317 shared storage 237 SIDs,
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View V VAAI, creating linked clones 257 vCenter Server 10 vDGA (Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration) 145, 148, 150, 153 vdm_agent.adm 268, 270 vdm_blast.adm 289 vdm_client.adm 268 vdm_common.adm 268 vdm_server.
Index Windows 8 benefits of disabling services 39 disabling hibernation 47, 110 disabling services 39 disabling customer experience improvement program 38 disabling defragmentation for linked clones 41 disabling Microsoft Feeds Synchronization 44 disabling prefetch and superfetch 43 disabling registry backup 43 disabling System Restore 44 disabling Windows Defender 44 disabling Windows Diagnostic Policy Service 42 disabling Windows Update Service 42 services that cause OS disk growth 39 volume activation w
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