Recovering Unidesk Desktops from a Catastrophic Host Failure
I've recently had the opportunity to deploy Unidesk at one of my customer sites for their VDI solution. I was preparing to write up a post about the install process, but it was actually very simple and is extremely well documented on their site (which is sadly behind an authentication wall so is not google indexed). If I did end up writing such an article, it would end up just being a big love letter and wouldn’t be particularly interesting to anyone (well, with the possible exception of the Unidesk sales team). Instead, I’m going to write this article about some of the things that I've broken and fixed, and some of the interesting things that you can do from a troubleshooting perspective. First, a brief overview of Unidesk. It’s a Layering technology. A given desktop is basically a collection of read-only vmdk files that are all stacked up together with their specialized driver in Windows to make it look like a single hard drive....