Hello,
I was wondering if maybe someone came across similar issue and might offer an advise on how to troubleshoot it and resolve. We are using Windows 1809 LTSC, Horizon 7.7, AppVolumes 2.16 and UEM 9.7 and vCenter 6.7 U2. So pretty much all the newest. Our storage is all flash based Pure, however it appears that the Instant clone takes roughly 5 minutes before it becomes available. It is in provisioning state for about 1 min 30 sec and then 3 mins 30 sec in customization state and then becomes available.
I opened a ticket with VMware on it and here is what we are seeing from the log:
2019-05-22 16:07:14 (3444) info CSvmgaService - (svgaservice.cpp, 397 ) shutting down the service
2019-05-22 16:11:54 (4268) debug Svmga:: setservicestatus - (svmga.cpp , 522) service stats set to 2
As you can see there is a 4 minute gap that would account for the long time before machine becomes available.
Next update from Vmware engineer is as follows:
Furthermore i discussed the case with my technical lead and he mentioned that it either could be some script or some program on VM itself which is causing it to reboot. As we are using clone prep so machine should not reboot however in your case its doing exactly the opposite.
The process C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\VMware\View Composer Guest Agent\vmware-svi-ga.exe (TESTIMRW5) has initiated the shutdown of computer TESTIMRW5 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Operating System: Recovery (Planned)
Reason Code: 0x80020002
So the next suggestion is to build brand new image with plain windows, install vmtools and horizon agent only and provision pool. I did that and bam the instant clone only takes 30 seconds before it becomes available.
I don't really want to redo my images as it will be very time consuming and pretty sure will break other things so I was wondering if anyone might have any idea on how to resolve it?