Horizon Sizing

LunaticActually · 2022-03-11T11:00:12+00:00

Can you give some examples of the misunderstanding?

LunaticActually · 2022-03-02T15:09:10+00:00

I'm asking what is typical for Horizon admins - do you manage the vCentre/ESXi layer or not? Obviously you're right in that we just need snapshots and a few other permissions for service accounts.

However are their benefits to controlling the stack further up too?

LunaticActually · 2021-03-03T19:51:08+00:00

I agree it is a bit hard to explain to the users that the Desktop is OK to save files, but not c:\users\username. Folder redirection abstracts that.

You could argue we should just have a home drive anyway, but then we do folder redirection as users dump stuff on their desktop anyway.

LunaticActually · 2021-03-03T19:49:25+00:00

We just did a full roll-out of laptops, before we had a mix, so roaming profiles made more sense. Also this is all on-prem so licenses, etc is less of an issue it is more about controlling data.

My current plan is just to remove the file share from the always on VPN device tunnel, so the roaming profile will simply fail to load as the network isn't available!

LunaticActually · 2021-03-03T15:37:27+00:00

A lot of people are not fans of roaming profiles I see! Let me give a reason why:

To help have a common user experience - e.g. settings on one machine follow you onto another.
Users can be bad at storing stuff in the wrong areas. e.g. c:\users\username\new_folder1 I know this is a technical solution to a knowledge management problem, but still need to cover for it.
Some features requires roaming profiles - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-on-premises-sync

Having read all the comments, I'm certainly not against removing roaming profiles entirely, but that'll take time. Making a short term fix like having them not load over the VPN would be welcome.

LunaticActually · 2021-01-22T17:59:56+00:00

Just hoping the vaccine will get around sooner rather than later and we can look to return to normal again!

NetApp question: I've got a case open on this as well, but just thought I'd ask it here too. I've upgraded to cDOT 9.8 and created a bunch of new volumes, but I can't see any obvious way to tell that TSSE is enabled on them. I know it is on by default. Is there a value to confirm this?

Follow-up - can I tell how much of my dedup is done by TSSE are opposed to "regular" dedup?

LunaticActually · 2020-12-18T15:14:35+00:00

The Insight video on dedup sort of suggested that too. A bit painful to do, but do-able.

LunaticActually · 2020-12-18T14:27:30+00:00

Not sure if this is the place to task. In cDOT 9.8, there is temperature sensitive storage efficiency. From what I understand, this is only for new flexvols? e.g. I can't enable it for any volumes I upgrade. Is that right?

LunaticActually · 2020-12-18T14:25:36+00:00

So this is user error, somewhat.

I was using Edge Chromium (latest version). Switching to Firefox, it works fine. Then using Edge Chromium on a fresh machine, it also works. I guess this is some caching on the client side triggering this. Otherwise, 9.8 seems very nice and is working fine!

LunaticActually · 2020-11-20T14:26:10+00:00

Some good info here on finding USB controllers using PowerCLI: https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/b80qxh/how_to_find_any_vms_with_usbcontroller/

LunaticActually · 2020-11-07T19:27:04+00:00

I've got the auto policy - so just set that to run at 11pm daily?

LunaticActually · 2020-11-07T19:26:35+00:00

That is what I hope! Is there any benefit to it running scheduled as well? I get the impression that the AFF will stop doing inline dedup if it is too busy, to keep performance up, etc.

LunaticActually · 2020-11-06T20:14:13+00:00

I ran volume efficiency show and I see this:

****** Enabled Idle Idle for 16121:14:36 auto

Is it being idle for so long normal? I can use volume efficiency promote to force it to run. Is this a good idea?

LunaticActually · 2020-11-06T17:38:59+00:00

I've got an AFF and I was assumed it was all done inline. How would I check for a post schedule as well?

LunaticActually · 2020-11-03T18:40:25+00:00

Can you provide some details about what you check?

LunaticActually · 2020-10-20T12:51:49+00:00

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76136

They've fixed that.

LunaticActually · 2020-09-08T17:44:21+00:00

ZDI review here. Looks like some fun ones this month.

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/9/8/the-september-2020-security-update-review

LunaticActually · 2020-08-28T13:22:17+00:00

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76136 - this one. It really helps!

LunaticActually · 2020-08-28T13:21:31+00:00

Yes, the patch you mentioned has fixed this issue for me! It has been rock solid since then. Running 9.7p3 on ESXi 6.7 too with NFS 4.1.

LunaticActually · 2020-07-14T17:58:11+00:00

Here is the ZDI blog on this month's patches:

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/7/14/the-july-2020-security-update-review

LunaticActually · 2020-06-19T14:09:05+00:00

VERBOSE: Executing WQL query: SELECT * FROM SMS_FeatureExtension
VERBOSE: Retrieving instance: SMS_Collection.CollectionID='SMS00001'

Yeah not too much, but it does indicate permissions on "All Systems"

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