Launching soon: The world's first vendor agnostic bug scrubLearn more & join waitlist
OPERATIONAL DEFECT DATABASE
...
...
This article highlights resources to assist with the successful deployment and administration of Persistent Disks.
Horizon 2306 introduces the ability to use Persistent Disks for Dedicated Instant Clones. Please find documentation which outlines the general limitations and requirements for Dedicated Instant Clones: Windows Desktops and Applications in Horizon 8 - Using Persistent Disks for Dedicated Instant Clones For Details on Migrations from a Legacy Horizon 7 Environment, please see Guidelines for Persistent Disk Migration from Horizon 7 Environments to Horizon 8 (93091) Image Optimization: Ensure your image is the very best it can be for usage as an instant clone and your infrastructure is configured for an optimal experience: Horizon View Best Practices: Parent Image Creation and Maintenance. (90152)Horizon View Best Practices: Instant Clone Provisioning and Troubleshooting (91265) Capacity Planning: When you configure persistent disks, the default size will be 2GB. Please consider your user base and likely usage to account for future growth. Profile Backup: With Persistent Disks, you store user settings and user-generated data on a disk independent of the VM. Identification and Configuration of an appropriate backup solution is critical to operational continuity and speedy recovery. One option is to complement this technology with VMware Dynamic Manager: Using VMware Dynamic Environment Manager with Local Profiles. This central share can then leverage your existing backup technology. This offers redundancy and a speedier recovery. Troubleshooting KBs: Known Issues: Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: Limitations when archiving Persistent Disks to the Root Level of a Datastore (92823) flags an incompatibility with vSAN / VVOL if archiving to the root of a Datastore.Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: Detach Operation Fails when a Machine is in an unavailable State (92798) helps resolve a scenario where a disk is stuck in a detaching state.Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: Removal Procedure for Stale Persistent Disk Entries (92791) provides a procedure to delete Persistent Disks directly from the ADAM LDAP database as an interim measure. Provisioning Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: VC_FAULT_FATAL - Could not find available slots on controllers of type com.vmware.vim25hic.VirtualLsiLogicController in VM (92903) outlines a setup issue when requirements for the VM are not met. Datastore: Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: NaN GB Capacity (92883) outlines a scenario where the capacity of the persistent disk cannot be read. Operational: Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: Persistent Disk Backup before Maintenance Tasks (92882) provides steps to directly back up a disk on ESXiHorizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: Recommendations for Desktop Migrations to New ESXi Clusters (92822) Steps to migrate persistent disks to new ESXi clusters. O/S Issues: Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: Profile Fails to Create on a Persistent Disk (92824) highlights profile creation conflicts and resources to resolve them.Horizon 8.10 Persistent Disk: Persistent Drive Mounts to an Incorrect Drive Letter (92825) highlights the procedure when a persistent disk is mounted to an unexpected drive letter. Legacy Articles: Managing persistent disks in VMware Horizon 7 (2086416)Cannot detach a Persistent Disk in Horizon 7 (2007076)