Is installation of SMA supported on non-persistent Microsoft VDI endpoints?

[Ain Abdullah]

Is SMA v8.7 installation on non-persistent VDI endpoints by Microsoft supported?
If not, can we include Microsoft VDI in this KB article?
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/229383/is-installation-of-symantec-management-a.html

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[Mike Grueber]

Hi Ain,

it would be helpful to know how you want to manage non persistent VDIs, given that such machines can vanish instantaneously. 

While there is dune functionality in ITMS that can be executed in a near real time basis, a lot of the functionality is schedule driven, which means it won't execute if a non persistent virtual machine no longer exists at the scheduled time. 

There is no functionality in the agent that will execute pending actions or send cached data to the Notification Server when a machine is being shut down, taken offline, etc. 

Please provide more information regarding the types of management actions you want to perform in non-persistent virtual machines, so that we can better understand the underlying use case. 

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