When trying to recompose, deploy, or restart Linked-clone pools I keep getting this error.
View Composer Fault: Unable to decrypt credentials for component Unknown and configID: null
I'm currently running the following:
vCenter 5.1.0 Build 1473063
View Connection 5.3
View Composer 5.3
Fix:
In View Horizon Administrator, View Configuration, Servers select your vCenter Server and click "Edit". In the "Edit vCenter Server" tab, select the "Edit" button under "vCenter Server Settings" and try using another account other than the one that is currently selected. Make sure it authenticates and then change it back to the original account.
Try another maintenance move within one of your pools again and see if it works now! This worked in our situation.
What we found out is when this account is configured the first time, View Horizon will cache those credentials for ease of use when trying to deploy 100 or 1000 VM desktops. You wouldn't want View Horizon to authenticate each time a VM gets deployed, it would bogg down your Domain Controllers and/or saturate your network with authentication requests.
NOTE:We used the same vCenter server name in our case because we had to rebuild our vCenter server due to a Microsoft Patch that crashed our working server.
