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4 If
transfers are currently active, choose whether to cancel the active transfers or wait until active transfers
are completed before placing View Transfer Server in maintenance mode.
If you cancel active transfers, View Transfer Server enters maintenance mode immediately.
If you allow active transfers to finish, View Transfer Server enters a Maintenance Mode Pending state.
When the current disk transfer is completed, View Transfer Server enters maintenance mode.
NOTE Allowing active transfers to finish ensures that the current disk is transferred. However, virtual
machines contain multiple disks. A transfer operation such as a desktop checkout might not be completed
if no other View Transfer Server instances are available to transfer any remaining disks. When a View
Transfer Server instance is taken out of maintenance mode, suspended transfers can be resumed.
5 Click OK.
What to do next
When you are ready to take View Transfer Server out of maintenance mode, select the View Transfer Server
instance and click Exit Maintenance Mode. Suspended transfers can be resumed and new data transfers can
start.
View Transfer Server Status
View Transfer Server can be in various states of operation and availability. In View Administrator, you can
track the status of View Transfer Server in the Transfer Servers pane on the View Configuration > Servers
page.
Table 14-1. View Transfer Server States During Normal Operations
Status Description
Ready View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository are configured and operating
properly.
Pending View Transfer Server is being added to View Manager or is exiting Maintenance mode.
View Connection Server is actively establishing a connection with View Transfer Server.
When the connection is made, View Transfer Server will be moved to an operational
state such as Ready.
Maintenance mode pending View Transfer Server is entering Maintenance mode while waiting for active transfers
and package publish operations to be completed.
Maintenance mode Active data transfers are suspended. Users cannot initiate new transfers. Scheduled,
pending transfers cannot take place. View Transfer Server cannot publish packages to
the Transfer Server repository.
Initializing Transfer Server
repository
View Transfer Server is initializing the Transfer Server repository.
If View Transfer Server has trouble initializing the Transfer Server repository, the status
will change to an error state. To resolve the issue, see the troubleshooting tip for the
displayed error state.
No Transfer Server repository
configured
No Transfer Server repository is configured in View Manager.
This state does not indicate an error because you can perform transfer operations for
full virtual machines without configuring a Transfer Server repository.
However, this state does indicate an error when you use linked-clone desktops in local
mode. You cannot perform transfer operations for linked-clone desktops when no
Transfer Server repository is configured.
View Transfer Server enters an error state when it becomes unavailable or cannot operate normally. To resolve
an
issue, read the troubleshooting tip for the displayed error state. See “Troubleshooting View Transfer Server
and Local Desktop Operations,” on page 340.
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