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re: Tuning SCVMM for VDI deployments

HeyAdmin — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:14:36 GMT

I'm curious about tuning SCVMM for branch office scenarios. We have an SCVMM server at headquarters and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core servers running Hyper-V in each branch office. We are managing everything with SCVMM. It appears there's quite a bit of traffic generated between the core servers in the branch offices and the SCVMM server. The offending process appears to be vmmservice.exe. There are multiple threads for the process, each one communicating with one of the core servers. Total utilization per thread ranges from a few hundred bps to 50kbps. I have changed automatic library refresh interval from 1 to 12 hours, but I reckon this process is getting data from the vmm agents about vm status, host status, and such. Is that right, and is there a way to tune it down to reduce bandwidth utilization? Thanks!

re: Tuning SCVMM for VDI deployments

Matt Evans — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:31:23 GMT

Same question as Ronnie. Do you need to make these changes in SCVMM 2012 also?

re: Tuning SCVMM for VDI deployments

Ronnie — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:26:25 GMT

Great post, any news on VDI for SCVMM2012?

re: Tuning SCVMM for VDI deployments

Turbofroggy — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:12:45 GMT

These two registry keys are not recommended at the 120 minute interval. The SCVMM advisor states that these should be set or 600 minutes not 120 minutes:

VMUpdateInterval - Periodic VM refresher

30 min

24 hr

120 mins

7200

HostUpdateInterval - Host and User Role Refresher

30 min

24 hr

120 mins

re: Tuning SCVMM for VDI deployments

Patrick Rouse — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:32:34 GMT

Vishwa, below is a link to some testing Quest did with Microsoft at the EEC in Redmond as it pertains to scalability of vWorkspace and SCVMM:

www.quest.com/.../landing.aspx

I've also included some demonstrations of vWorkspace Rapid Virtual Desktop Provisioning with SCVMM: