Setting Up for Linux Desktops

Script Execution
The following messages are from an execution of the script:
PowerCLI C:\scripts> .\VMOperations.ps1
Your vCenter address: 10.117.44.17
Your vCenter admin user name: administrator
Your vCenter admin user password: *******
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Select action: 1). Power On 2). Power Off 3) Shutdown VM Guest 4). Restart VM 5). Restart VM
Guest 6). Delete VM: 1
Wait time (seconds) between each VM: 20
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Your selection is 6). Delete VM
For the operations power on, reatart VM, and restart VM guest, specify a wait time between virtual
machines of at least 20 seconds to avoid a boot storm situation, which might cause some operations to fail.
Sample Script to Delete Machines from the Connection Server LDAP
Database
You can customize and use the following sample script to delete machines that are not in a desktop pool
from the Connection Server LDAP database.
This is a PowerShell script and does not require PowerCLI to be installed. To run the script, log in to View
Connection Server as an administrator, create the script and input files, and run the script from a PowerShell
window. If a machine in the input file is in a desktop pool, this script displays a message and does not delete
it from the LDAP database.
NOTE Before running the script, take a snapshot of the Connection Server virtual machine in case it
becomes necessary to undo the changes from running the script.
To copy and paste the script content without page breaks, use the HTML version of this topic, available
from the Horizon 7 documentation page at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html.
Script Input
The input file is of type csv and contains the names of the machines to be deleted. The following example
shows what the input file may contain.
MachineName
linux-001
linux-002
linux-003
The sample script assumes that the name of this input file is DeleteMachineItems.csv and that the file is
located in the same folder as the scripts.
Script Content
<#
bulk Delete registered machine items from broker LDAP database.
#>
$csvFile = '.\DeleteMachineItems.csv'
#check if file exists
Setting Up Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops
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