Our firm is currently using VMware, now Omnissa, for our virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which relies on roaming profiles. Recently, we’ve been encountering significant disk space issues across our environment.
We’re looking for guidance or configuration to better manage and control temporary file locations within this setup. If you could advise us on how to redirect temp storage to reduce disk usage, it would be greatly appreciated.
Please let us know if you need any additional details from our end.
Im posting my reply on a forum topic that was created by your colleague. Basically, temp files are automatically removed when launching D5 Render. Having these files retained on your end would entail that it was backed up.
Hence, can you confirm if you are using a hard disk auto backup feature?
could you please open the temporary files and send us a screenshot of what you see? You can also personally review the contents of these files.
To clarify, this is not an issue with backup storage, but the normal storage usage when running D5 Render. The environment using Microsoft FSLogix to support roaming profile containers, where %localappdata% lives.
The issue herein is that these profiles have a maximum capacity as well as not being optimal for performance for rendering.
Typically, applications offer management control through setting or registry to dictate where this cache data is held, in addition to normal storage locations, much like the D5 workspace location setting, which we do have offloading to a separate drive on the remote desktop.
This might be a question for Engineering or development teams, but please let us know if any further insight can be provided.
If still needed, I can work to obtain a copy of the temp files for further review.
Much appreciated! This article might also help with understanding our goals - we would configure a similar solution should D5 not support the needed configuration at this time.