VMware VDI (Horizon View) Troubleshooting - Part II

Now it's time to investigate more deeply about troubleshooting of VMware Horizon View. In this post, I want to continue speaking about the LDAP structure and data of the VDI server. If you look at the first post of this series, I talked how to connect to View LDAP with windows MMC: ADSI Edit. Now I will show you which VDI objects belong to which one of OUs in Directory Service hierarchy of VMware View:

 1. OU=Server Groups specified a list of desktop pools in the Horizon environment.

2. OU=Servers contain all the VMs (Desktops that have been deployed by every desktop pool.

3. OU=Data Disk listed all of the generated virtual disks belong to each of the desktop.

4. OU=Groups contains all of predefined Admin groups and manually added roles in horizon administration console with their allowed permissions mentioned into the pae-AdminRolePermissions attribute of defined object.

5. OU=Applications is about all added virtual APPs to Horizon environment, for example by an Application Pool of an RDS Farm. Each of the created Apps are listed here. 

Now let's review sub_OUs of OU=Properties:

1. If you configured the View event database, you can see the related object in sub_OU of OU=Database as a pae-EventDatabase class. Database server type and instance name, configured TCP Port, Database name and also events longevity are the main attributes of this class of object.

2. OU=Server is about Horizon View servers class as the pae-VDMProperties class. OU=Server, OU=LVM contains VDI servers (as same as the last mentioned object class) that are related to Linked-Mode Desktop Pools.

3. OU=VirtualCenter listed configured vCenter servers (VC) and composer servers (SVI) with object class type of pae-VirtualCenter. You can also check specified connection credential and URL addresses of each server: https://VC:443/sdk and https://SVI:18443

4. OU=Global contains some important objects such as:

4-1 CN= Common with some important attributes about VDI management, like Pod Name (or Cluster Name that has been generated from computer name of first / primary installed connection server), timeout of console session and connected desktop desktop, Maximum session time duration, Syslog related configuration, Pre-forced logoff message for Horizon endpoint users, IPSec mode and etc.

4-2 CN=License with hashed-form of imported license key for VMware Horizon View. 

4-3 CN=Keys contains RADIUS configs, some session timeouts like RDP, VDM Gateway and Security servers, Security Server Pairing settings and etc.

I tried to mention some useful and critical OUs of VMware Horizon View LDAP structure on this post, if you think I forgot to review another important objects of View LDAP, I will be appreciated to tell me about it.