When you eliminate or shorten the steps for provisioning View Composer clones by using Instant Clone Technology, you significantly reduce the time for a desktop to be provisioned and ready.įigure 1: Comparison of the View Composer Cloning Process to the Instant Clone Technology Process Why Are Instant Clones Created So Much Faster Than View Composer Clones?įigure 1 shows the various steps involved in the two cloning processes-Instant Clone Technology and View Composer clones.

Yes, that is one clone created per second on average. Instant Clone Technology allows administrators to rapidly clone and deploy a virtual machine in less time than it took for you to read these two sentences. For those of you who follow project names, think of vmFork and Project Fargo.

Instant Clone Technology is all about delivering VDI desktops just in time. That’s it! Re-enable provisioning on your pools and you should be all set.Just-in-time desktops? Really? Are you kidding me?.In my case I had to change from SQL authentication to Integrated Windows authentication. You may need to change the SQL authentication type if there’s a difference between ServerOld and ServerNew. Here you want to change the Server from ServerOld to ServerNew.On the View Composer server, open up the Data Sources (ODBC) tool.Log-on to ServerNew and create a new database.Log-on to ServerOld and take the database offline (Don’t detach! If for some reason the new server isn’t as ready as you thought it was or the restore fails then you can put this database back online quickly).The assumption is that both databases run Microsoft SQL Server however the general idea stands.įirstly you probably want to do this out of hours because there will be a short period where the composer won’t be able to recompose VMs which could potentially lead to a shortage of VMs for users to log in to. In this short article I will briefly go through the steps required to migrate your VMware Horizon View Composer database from an old server (ServerOld) to a new server (ServerNew).

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