VDI in UCS

Hello,
I'm having a brainstorm with some colleagues for a VDI project in UCS, and we were wondering the differences between the several Xeon 5600 processors (besides the obvious #cores difference) applied to a VDI implementation.
For instance, is there any important difference between Xeon E5620 and E5640 for such a solution (besides the 0.2 Ghz difference of the clocking which I don't perceive so important)?? I see one is twice the price compared to the other...that's why I have many doubts at this respect.
Any inputs will be appreciated.
Thanks,

Dani,
Below is one other response i got from one of our experts in the team.
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Yes, there is little difference except the bus/core ratio is different (which determines other diffs). The higher price of E5640 comes mainly from this higher ratio because E5640 dies (semiconductor term on the chip) must come from the smaller and higher quality portion of the silicon prints. For example, from one 300mm wafer, probably only 15% of the dies would be qualified for E5640 with higher yield failures while 85% are left for E5620 or slower processors with much lower yield failure ratio. Hence Intel has to charge higher price for E5640.
Looks like there is not much difference technically.
Regards,
Ranga

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When you log on to a session and call get-appvclientpackage -all - do they show the full 100% load?
BTW pre-caching all packages can be done with get-appvclientpackage -all | mount-appvclientpackage.
Similar to this get-appvclientpackage -all | unpublish-appvclientpackage should hide them all. When (un) Publishing make sure to hit the right scope. if packageas are 'published globally', the -global switch has to be added:
get-appvclientpackage -all | unpublish-appvclientpackage -global
Note that HF4 for SP2 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2956985/en-us) introduced new settings targeting VDI deployments, they are a little bit explained at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn659478.aspx
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APP-V 5.0 VDI A Temporary Profile is created when I log into the Virtual Desktop

Dear Sirs
I'm Enzo , an Italian System Engineer. Together with other fellows we created a test environment :
- a VDI machine (POC-VDI,10.102.94.219, Windows Server 2012 R2) with
RD Web Access, RD Connection Broker, RD Virtualization Host, RD Session Host Installed
The Hyper-V Environment includes :
- DHCP Server (to provide addresses to Virtual Desktop Collections)
- APP-V_5.0_Server , Application Virtualization Management Console 5.0, with 2 published packages (Office 2010 and Open    Office 4)
- Sequencer_W8-1, Application Virtualization Sequencer 5.0
- Client_8-1 , Client Windows 8.1 with Application Virtualization Client 5.0
From the Client_8-1 we can download and run the two published packages from the server (user VDI_TEST_1)
The Client_8-1 has been used as the template (sysprep /oobe /generalize /shutdown) for the Virtual Dektop (APP-0 and APP-1)
included in the collection 'APPV' (Pooled, Automatically Manage Virtual Desktop, Roll Back Virtual Desktops Enabled).
I connect to the 'RD Web Access' ( http 10.102.94.219 RDWeb, user VDI_TEST_1) , I then connect to APPV collection .
When I get logged into the Virtual Desktop (APP-0 or APP-1, user VDI_TEST_1), a Temporary Profile is created. Why ?
We configured :
User Profile Disk : share Location 10.102.94.219 UPD
   UPD : Share      Everyone Full Control
                              Security   SYSTEM    Full Control
                                         Network Service
Full Control
                                       POC-VDI$   Full
Control
                                         Administrators (POC-VDI\Aministrators)
Full Control
                                         Users (POC-VDI\Users)
Read & Execute
I am puzzled as long as when I get logged into the Virtual Desktop, a Temporary Profile is created. Why ?
Thanks in advance for your kind attention
Enzo

Highly unlikely it has anything to do with App-V.
Start troubleshooting by looking at permissions on shares and folder under the shares for the profile.
Tim Mangan MVP for App-V and Citrix CTP Author of AppV books: "The Client Book" and "OSD Reference Book" (http://www.tmurgent.com/Books )

Running Permission Scripts for App-V packages in VDI environment

Hi
We use App-V 5.0 SP1 in VDI environment.
We have a major problem with packages' permissions
Our users don't have administrative privileges on their machines.
As the option for "Security Descriptors" is discontinued, the only way to give permissions to a folder in a package is to use the VFSCACLS.vbs as a startup script of a package.
This way the first time users launch an application they're prompt to reopen it, and the second time they can use the application with the needed permissions.
The problem:
The script saves those permission changes under LOCALAPPDATA\AppV...
Therefore, everytime the users logoff the folder is deleted (VDI...) and again, they must run the script for the first again to get the permissions back after logon!
We cannot roam the LOCALAPPDATA\AppV folder as its size can be dozens of GBs...
Folder permissions with group policy is also not a solution, as the folder name changes everytime we upgrade a package and it's impossible to follow with hundreds of packages.
So it's either we're missing something critical in the architecture with VDI environment or there's a normal solution for these situations.
Would love to get some help
Thanks
Tamir Levy

Hi Nicke
that's what I did! the problem is that I find my self over and over again want to sequence packages in App-V 5.0 and forced to sequence it in App-V 4.6.
I really hope that it wasn't App-V team's goal. announcing App-V 5.0 and tell us it doesn't support many things so we will still need App-V 4.6 forever.
I have to maintain 2 different App-V environments with 4 different servers , 4 different sequencers and 2 clients on each computer. it doesn't make any sense for me to forced to stay with both of the versions forever.
correct me if I'm wrong but App-V 4.6 is a legacy application. the new versions cover only support on newer operating systems and nothing more. I won't be surprised if in the next version of MDOP won't come with App-V 4.6 anymore and Microsoft will announced
it's unsupported very soon.
Every time I open a ticket with MS Support the best thing I get is "It's a known issue, we can't tell when it will be fixed"
can you help me more ? move it forward to other people from the inside? at least agree with me that something is not as expected in App-V 5.0... :(
I love the technology, I believe in it, I'm kinda depend on it and I only want it to be better
Tamir Levy

App-V packages not streaming on VMWare View VDI

Hello All,
We are currently running SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 on VMware View VDI's.
We maintain our golden image using SCCM OSD.
NExt to applications installed in the image, we are also using app-v packages.
Before we can deploy the image, it needs to be stripped (or sysprepped) so as to garantuee that the clones will not report to the Management Point using the same SCCM Guids etc.
There for we perform the following:
net stop "CcmExec"
Remove-Item c:\windows\smscfg.ini
Get-ChildItem -Path cert:\LocalMachine\SMS | Remove-Item
Get-wmiObject -Namespace root\ccm\invagt -class inventoryActionStatus | where {$_.inventoryactionID -eq "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}" } | remove-wmiobject
Clear-EventLog -logname Application
Clear-EventLog -logname System
Clear-EventLog -logname Security
Get-ChildItem c:\windows\ccm\logs | remove-item
When we deploy the new version of an image, we see that APP-V packages are not being streamed immediately to the clients.
While troubleshooting, I noticed that whenever I login and run a Machine Policy Evaluation & Retrieval cycle, that a ccmrepair and ccmrestart is being executed.
After the restart, the client immediately starts streaming the App-V packages.
Can anyone help me in pinpointing where the ccmrestart gets triggered from?
I've searched to already a lot of logs (ccmexec, execmgr, policyagent, policyevaluator,..) for the root cause but am unable to find it.
Many thanks in advance!
Filip Theyssens

Hi,
I just ran the action "Machine Policy Evaluation & Retrieval cycle" on my client, the Ccmrepair and Ccmrestart were not being executed from the logs.
You could trigger the CcmRestart by running "%windir%\CCM\CcmRestart.exe".
Best Regards,
Joyce
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