Decrypting The Virtual Machine Of A Local Desktop Using The -V Option - VMware View Manager 4.5 Admin Manual

ThinApp assignments.
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Administrator roles including the administrative rights of a user and the folders in which they have those
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rights.
Options
The -u option specifies the name and domain of the user.
Examples
Display information about the user Jo in the CORP domain in XML using ASCII characters.
vdmadmin -U -u CORP\Jo -n -xml

Decrypting the Virtual Machine of a Local Desktop Using the -V Option

VMware View secures the virtual machine of a local desktop by encrypting its base image. If you are not able
to power on or check in the local desktop, you can use the
the virtual machine so that you can recover data from it.
Syntax
vdmadmin -V -rescue [-b
Usage Notes
To decrypt a full virtual machine, copy all of the virtual machine files from the client machine. Specify the
name of the VMware virtual machine configuration file (VMX file) as the argument to the -infile option.
To decrypt a single disk from a virtual machine, copy all of the VMware virtual disk files (VMDK files) that
correspond to that disk. If you created the local desktop from a linked-clone desktop, you must also copy the
subfolder that contains the VMDK files for the base image. Specify the name of the VMDK file for the disk as
the argument to the -infile option. Do not specify a VMDK file that corresponds to a disk slice.
The command writes the decrypted files to a subfolder named
vdmadmin
The decryption fails if the correct authentication key is not available in the View LDAP configuration, or if any
of the required virtual machine files are corrupted or missing.
Options
Table 16-15 shows the options that you must specify to decrypt a full virtual machine or one of its disks.
Table 16-15. Options for Decrypting the Virtual Machine of a Local Desktop
Option
-d desktop
-infile path_to_VM_file
-u domain\user
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authentication_arguments ] -d desktop -u domain\user -infile path_to_VM_file
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command with the -V option to decrypt
vdmadmin
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rescued
Description
Specifies the name of the desktop pool.
Specifies the path to the VMX or VMDK file for the local
desktop's virtual machine.
Specifies the domain and name of the local desktop's end
user.
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