Tuesday, April 5

PCoIP Secure GW - this sh*t works

After some hassle, the new View 4.6 Secure Gateway finally works with PCoIP connections too.
The symptom was simple: PCoIP connections disconnected immediately, while RDP connections did work. I didn't find any log in C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\Logs that would hold any information about the disconnects, alll log entries were the same for the PCoIP and the RDP sessions.
I read markbenson's doc at the communities site, and found out that I forgot to check the checkbox on the view connection server administration site to enable the PCoIP on proxied (gateway'd) connections.
This one:

Now I only have 2 concerns.


In the Debug log there is a Java socket error, about some Tunnel IO problem. At first I thought it was some routing/firewall issue, because the SecGW is in a DMZ of course. I think this happens every time, when a client disconnects:
 DEBUG [ab] (4B412F31EACA3A955A8CDB2CBCC06EF6) Tunnel IO problem: java.io.IOException: Bad length com.vmware.vdi.ob.tunnelservice.ab.run(SourceFile:892)
java.io.IOException: Bad length
at simple.http.ChunkedInputStream.doLength(ChunkedInputStream.java:334)
at simple.http.ChunkedInputStream.nextChunk(ChunkedInputStream.java:266)
at simple.http.ChunkedInputStream.parseRead(ChunkedInputStream.java:250)
at simple.http.ChunkedInputStream.readBytes(ChunkedInputStream.java:181)
at simple.http.MonitoredInputStream.read(MonitoredInputStream.java:115)
at java.io.DataInputStream.read(DataInputStream.java:132)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:237)
at com.vmware.vdi.ob.tunnelservice.df.b(SourceFile:1022)
at com.vmware.vdi.ob.tunnelservice.ab.run(SourceFile:763)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
This could be anything from a bug in some java code to "working as intended" speeches.


My other thingie is interesting too. Even with 8GBs of RAM, the Security Gateway installation cries for more memory on Win2008R2 SecGW VM:


Of course I did not find any infomation in the View administration Guide regarding the sizing of security servers. Will look it through again sometime.

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