Niels Geursen Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago I have a customer who wants to do network maintenance in one of the data centres let's call DC1. How can we ensure that all new users are redirected to DC2 and that users with an existing session in DC1 can reconnect to DC1? Goal: Drain 1 pod in the data centre without user impact. Customer environment: 2 datacenters 2 pods ( 1 pod per dc) 6 connections servers per pod (2 CS are dedicated for SAML authentication with WS1 Access) 4 UAGs only for outside connections Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Harmsen Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) You might just want to disable provisoning for the pools in DC1. Assuming they are using instant clone desktops, that way no new VM's will be created. And when users logout the 'old' VMs will get destroyed. Eventually the POD/pools will be empty. When the pod is drained ou might also want to disable the connection servers and UAG's and perhaps change loadbalancing for that DC, in orde to make sure it is not handeling any traffic before doing network maintenance. Edited 1 hour ago by Robin Harmsen Quote Senior Engineer (SDDC, EUC, DBA, Applications) at the Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Massey-1 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 2 minutes ago, Robin Harmsen said: You might just want to disable provisoning for the pools in DC1. Assuming they are using instant clone desktops, that way no new VM's will be created. And when users logout the 'old' VMs will get destroyed. Eventually the POD/pools will be empty. When the pod is drained ou might also want to disable the connection servers and UAG's and perhaps change loadbalancing for that DC, in orde to make sure it is not handeling any traffic before doing network maintenance. That might take too long for the customer's maintenance window or cause other issues depending on how home sites are configured. And it wouldn't prevent Horizon from sending users to that site as long as spare desktops were available. It's been a while since I've done a CPA upgrade where we had to prevent users from logging into a site. I think we had to disable the pools themselves in the pod that we wanted to perform maintenance on so that users would not get assigned desktops in that site, even if spare desktops were available. We had to do other things too like disable load balancing for the UAGs in that site. Quote Sean Massey Independent Consultant/Analyst/Blogger | VCDX-EUC 247 Vice Chairman of the Board - World of EUC Blog: thevirtualhorizon.com Mastodon: @seanpmassey@vmst.io Instagram/Thread: @seanpmassey LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanpmassey/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Harmsen Posted 53 minutes ago Share Posted 53 minutes ago When you disable the entire pool, existing sessions cannot reconnect. To speed things up you can manually delete unused machines.. so you only have to deal with active sessions. Quote Senior Engineer (SDDC, EUC, DBA, Applications) at the Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Massey-1 Posted 47 minutes ago Share Posted 47 minutes ago 4 minutes ago, Robin Harmsen said: When you disable the entire pool, existing sessions cannot reconnect. To speed things up you can manually delete unused machines.. so you only have to deal with active sessions. Ah, yeah. I missed that requirement. I think your approach would work better... Quote Sean Massey Independent Consultant/Analyst/Blogger | VCDX-EUC 247 Vice Chairman of the Board - World of EUC Blog: thevirtualhorizon.com Mastodon: @seanpmassey@vmst.io Instagram/Thread: @seanpmassey LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanpmassey/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenTrojahn Posted 18 minutes ago Share Posted 18 minutes ago If RDSH farms, you have to disable the RDSHs themselves to drain properly. its a PITA w\o scripting: FARM>> RDS hosts>>Selctall >>Disable repeat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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