SupportVMware’s Support Insider, Rick Blythe, has put together a great list of the top VMware Horizon support issues by studying the support trends and identifying the top issues driving calls into the VMware support centers.

So if you are a VMware Horizon admin or implementer supporting a single or various Horizon environments check out these awesome tips and tricks!

This should help you avoid issues that many of others have reported. This list is hand picked by our View Support Engineers. Keep this list handy.

  1. VMware Horizon View trending issues by product version (2089340)
  2. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database in VMware View Manager and Horizon View (2015112)
  3. Troubleshooting SSL certificate issues in VMware Horizon View 5.1 and later (2082408)
  4. Troubleshooting VMware Horizon View HTML Access (2046427)
  5. Troubleshooting a black screen when logging into a Horizon View virtual desktop using PCoIP (1028332)
  6. Pool settings are not saved, new pools cannot be created, and vCenter Server tasks are not processed in a Horizon View environment (2082413)
  7. VMware View Composer installation best practices and troubleshooting (2083555)
  8. Moving a persistent data disk to another View desktop (1033286)
  9. Configuring VMware View Event database on an SQL server fails with the error: An error occurred while attempting to configure the database (1029537)
  10. Enabling RSA SecurID authentication on a View Connection Server fails when there are multiple network interfaces on the Connection Server (2043055)
  11. Manually deleting replica virtual machines in VMware Horizon View 5.x (1008704)
  12. Troubleshooting Horizon View user permission issues with vCenter Server (2085142)
  13. Troubleshooting Persona Management (2008457)
  14. Investigating VMware View Composer failure codes (2085204)
  15. Generating and importing a signed SSL certificate into VMware Horizon View 5.1/5.2/5.3 using Microsoft Certreq (2032400)
  16. Managing persistent disks in VMware Horizon View 4.6 and later (2086416)
  17. Troubleshooting Agent Unreachable status in VMware Horizon View (2083535)
  18. Performing maintenance or Composer operations on the VMware Horizon View desktops fail (2086530)
  19. Connections to the Horizon View Connection Server or Security Server fail with SSL errors (2072459)
  20. Performing maintenance or Composer operations on the VMware Horizon View desktops fail (2086530)