Standardizing DNS Management in VDI Environments
Maintaining a clean DNS in a non-persistent VDI environment (like VMware Horizon) can be challenging. When VMs are frequently destroyed and recreated, “ghost” records and permission conflicts often lead to connectivity issues. Here is how we restructured our infrastructure to ensure a stable and self-cleaning DNS. 1. The Service Account Approach (Single Point of Truth) By default, Windows clients attempt to register their own DNS records. In a VDI pool, this leads to ownership conflicts when a new VM tries to claim a record previously owned by a deleted machine. ...