You can quickly survey the status of machines in your Horizon 7 deployment by using the Horizon Administrator dashboard. For example, you can display all disconnected machines or machines that are in maintenance mode.

Prerequisites

Familiarize yourself with the virtual machine status values. For more information about the status of virtual machines, see "Status of vCenter Server Virtual Machines" in the Setting Up Virtual Desktops in Horizon 7 document.

Procedure

  1. In Horizon Administrator, click Dashboard.
  2. In the Machine Status pane, expand a status folder.
    Option Description
    Preparing Lists the states while the machine is being provisioned, deleted, or in maintenance mode.
    Problem Machines Lists the error states.
    Prepared for use Lists the states when the machine is ready for use.
  3. Locate the machine status and click the hyperlinked number next to it.

Results

The Machines page displays all machines with the selected status.

What to do next

You can click a machine name to see details about the machine or click the Horizon Administrator back arrow to return to the Dashboard page.