Managing VMWare View clients with ConfigMgr ??

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:28:52 Z

Hi,

has anyone made any experiences with this constellation?
My customer has around 1200 virtual clients (XP SP3) in a VMWare View environment.
For patching purposes the machines are taken offline and then inserted again. Same thing with crashed machines. They reset those machines and I wonder if there will be problems with the ConfigMgr GUID.
Any hint would be nice

Miguel Rodriguez MCTS - ConfigMgr ~~elmunjo.blogspot.com~~

Managing VMWare View clients with ConfigMgr ??

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:31:40 Z

Need to be tested, but I think you should be fine if you let conflicting records merge the records:

http:// technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693963.aspx

"ELMUNJO" <=?utf-8?B?RUxNVU5KTw==?=> wrote in message news:db8a300f-da9b-497 b-b667-6e3becfc9910...
Hi,

has anyone made any experiences with this constellation?
My customer has around 1200 virtual clients (XP SP3) in a VMWare View environment.
For patching purposes the machines are taken offline and then inserted again. Same thing with crashed machines. They reset those machines and I wonder if there will be problems with the ConfigMgr GUID.
Any hint would be nice
Miguel Rodriguez MCTS - ConfigMgr ~~elmunjo.blogspot.com~~

Managing VMWare View clients with ConfigMgr ??

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:34:18 Z

With a little further investigating i found out the following:
VMWare View clients are deleted from AD and recreated for the following purposes:

-Patching the master Image
-Reinstalling in case of corrupted client

So the ConfigMgr tasks will have to be configured exactly:
Delete Inactive Client Discovery Data
(and Delete Aged Discovery Data)

I will post an update as soon as i have exact results.
Thanks for your thoughts.

Miguel Rodriguez MCTS - ConfigMgr ~~elmunjo.blogspot.com~~

Managing VMWare View clients with ConfigMgr ??

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:57:46 Z

Update:

Using the built-in Tasks won't work for this constallation.

What VMWare View does:

Old client is deleted from AD
Client is recreated with the same DNS Name but new HW config
Client comes up with Configmgr Client and new SMS UUID + new HW ID + new MAC
we have 2 records in DB, both active

As my customer has both virtual and physical clients i don't know if i can lower the delete inactive client disc data task as that would also remove clients from users that are on vacation for a longer period.
Normally those double entries would be removed after 60 days via the task.
we have Heartbeat set to 1 day

Is there any other way of getting rid of the old entries?
When I activate AD System Disc running each day, would that enable me to lower the del inact. client disc data task interval?
Let's say:

Heartbeat: 1 day
AD System: 1 day
del inact. client disc data: 1 Week

The old machines would be removed after 1 week because neither disc. method would find him
All other machines would be heartbeated or (if offline for a longer period) found via AD System Disc.

Would that work, or am I missing something?
Will those intervals do any harm to my environment?

Miguel Rodriguez MCTS - ConfigMgr ~~elmunjo.blogspot.com~~