Schedule Immediate Farm Maintenance
In this lesson you will schedule and run an immediate farm maintenance operation on an existing Horizon RDSH farm.
Authenticate to the Horizon Console
Note - If you already have the Horizon Admin console open in Chrome, you can skip ahead to Navigate to Farms.
Launch Browser
- From the Desktop of the Main Console, double-click Google Chrome
Navigate to Horizon Console
- Select Horizon from the bookmarks bar
- Select Horizon-01-NewAdminConsole
Login to Horizon Console
- User name: administrator
- Password: VMware1!
- Click Sign in
Navigate to Farms
- Select Farms
- Select RDSH-01
Note - Be sure to click the farm ID, not the checkbox next to it
Select Maintenance Schedule
- Select Maintain
- Select Schedule
Immediate Schedule
- Select Immediate
Maintenance Options
- Notice the default option is to run the immediate maintenance operation now, though you have the option to schedule it for a later time
- Select Next
Image Options
- Uncheck the box Use current parent VM image
- Select the snapshot RDSH IC Base HoL 2019
- Select Next
Schedule Maintenance Setting
- Select Force users to log off
- Select Next
Ready to Complete
- Select Finish
Navigate to vCenter
- Leave the VMware Horizon 7 tab open in Chrome
- Open a New Tab in Chrome
- Select vCenter
- Select RegionA vSphere Client (HTML)
Authenticate to vCenter
- Check the box for Use Windows session authentication
- Select Login
vCenter Recent Tasks
- Monitor the Recent Tasks window to observe the Instant Clone operations
- The RDS host from the Horizon farm is deleted
- A new, clean Instant Clone RDS host is provisioned from the existing parent image
Note - It may take a couple of minutes to delete and recreate the host, due to constraints in the HOL environment.
Navigate to Horizon 7 Console
- Navigate to the VMware Horizon 7 tab you left running in a previous step
- Select Events
Review Horizon Events
Note the two log entries:
- RDSH1 was deleted
- The Horizon Agent on RDSH1 successfully contacted the Horizon Connection Server (Broker) after it was provisioned
- If the event messages are not showing up, wait thirty seconds and refresh the window
Leave the Horizon Console Open
Leave Chrome open to the Horizon Console page as you will use it in the next lesson.
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