The task "Recompute virtual disk digest" appears in the vCenter Server tasks every minute

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• The "Recompute virtual disk digest" task is occurring every minute in the "Recent Tasks" section of the vSphere Client.
• A large volume of the following tasks are being output in the results of the journalctl -b 0 command.
  
  Event [***] [yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.ffffffZ] [vim.event.TaskEvent] [info] [***] [Task: Recompute virtual disk digest]


• The environment utilizes Horizon products.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Cause

This task is executed in relation to the Horizon products.

Resolution

Since this task is a request from a Horizon product, contact Omnissa Customer Connect for further details.

Additional Information

Japanese KB: vCenter Server 上で「仮想ディスク ダイジェストの再計算」タスクが毎分発生する