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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Thelinkisindirectbecausethefirsttimeoneormorelinkedclonesarecreated,a
uniquelyidentifiedcopyoftheParentVM—calledareplica—isalsocreated.Allthe
desktopclonesareanchoreddirectlytothereplicaandnottotheParentVM.Desktops
ofthistypearecalledlinkedclone
desktops.
TheParentVMcanbeupdatedorreplacedwithoutdirectlyaffectingthelinkedclone
desktopsandcanthereforecanbeviewedasastandalonevirtualmachine.Thissetof
relationshipsisillustratedinFigure 6‐1.
Figure 6-1. Parent VM, Linked Replica, and Desktop Clones
Becauseallthelinkedclonedesktopsinthisenvironmentareconnectedtoacommon
source,ViewComposerpermitsthecentralizedmanagementofdesktopswhile
maintainingaseamlessuserexperience.Taskssuchasresettingeachsystemtoits
defaultconfiguration,balancingstorage,installingsoftware,andapplyingservice
packsaregreatlyacceleratedbythistypeofdeployment.
N
OTEReplicaVMscanbeidentifiedwithinvCenterServerbytheirreplica-prefix
followedbyauniqueID.
InvSphereClient4,replicaVMsareonlyvisibleintheHostsandClustersInventory
view.InVMwareInfrastructureClient3.5,replicaVMsarealsovisibleintheVirtual
MachinesandTemplatesInventoryview.
NOTEIfareplicaisdeleted,thedesktopsanchoredtothereplicawillceasetowork,so
replicasaretreatedasprotectedentitieswithinvCenterServer.
base image + snapshot
user data disk
replica
OS data disk
user data disk
OS data disk
parent VM can be
on a different datastore
clone 1 clone 2