Remap Dedicated Desktops
One of my customers needed to do a complicated migration recently. They wanted to move their View + Unidesk VDI environment from vCenter 5.1 on Windows to the vCenter Server Appliance running vCenter 6. We moved the ESXi hosts and used them to carry the desktops over, just like we do with servers in this sort of situation, but the View stuff added to the complexity. On the Unidesk side, there's a nice KB article that we followed, but there isn't such guidance for View. You may not have noticed it (I sure didn't until this migration), but on the list of desktop pools, there's a column that lists the vCenter server on which that pool was created. It turns out that the pools are irrevocably associated with the vCenter server itself and so, when you migrate vCenter servers, you have to recreate all of your desktop pools. This customer had about 2 dozen pools; an arduous task, but ultimately not all that time consuming... until you think about the ramificatio...