Good afternoon all!
We are running a POC VDI deployment on a Nutanix system, and I am having a DNS issue. I would appreciate some help trying to figure this out. Two situations that are causing issues that I can see:
1. VMs go into a saved state if not being used: This in itself is not an issue, and I see it as a way to save resources not being used; however, if a VM is saved for a few days, the DHCP address often gets reassigned. Now if users are connecting, and that saved VM with the stale address is called to wake up, the VM is not found.
2. Recreating the pool after updating the golden image: This is the bigger issue. After a couple days of running smoothly, I was asked by my pilot users to add Firefox. I installed it and recreated all the VMs in the pool. When this happened, they all got new IPs, but the old DNS records were not updated. This made the broker unable to find a single VM in the pool. I could not ping a single one.
Has anybody else run into these DNS issues with a VDI deployment? If so, what did you do to resolve it? If not, have any ideas on what is going on here?
Thank you in advance!
Eric