Specifications
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
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Figure 1-1. Example High-Level View of a View Manager Environment
View Manager Features
ThemajorfeaturesofViewManageraredescribedbelow:
Enterprise‐classconnectionbrokering—ViewManagermanagestheconnections
betweenusersandtheirvirtualdesktops.WhenusersconnecttoViewManager,
thevirtualdesktopstheyareauthorizedtoaccessaredisplayed.
“Smartpooling”capabilities—Arangeofpersistentandnon‐persistentpooling
capabilitiessimplifiestheprovisioningandmanagementofcentralizeddesktops.
network
ESX hosts running
Virtual Desktop VMs
View
Connection
Server
View
Administrator
(browser)
VMware vCenter Server
with View Composer
network
Windows
View Client
Mac
View Portal
Linux
View Portal Thin Client
virtual desktops
ESX host
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
V
virtual machine
desktop OS
app app app
View Agent
Microsoft
Active Directory
VM
Terminal Servers
Blade PCs
Physical PCs
Non-vCenter VMs
View Agent