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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View Manager Components
ViewManagerconsistsofthefollowingmajorcomponents:
ViewConnectionServer—asoftwareservicethatactsasabrokerforclient
connectionsbyauthenticatingandthendirectingincomingremotedesktopuser
requeststotheappropriatevirtualdesktop,physicaldesktop,orterminalserver.
ViewAgent—asoftwareservicethatisinstalledonallguestvirtualmachines,
physicalsystems,orterminalserversinordertoallowthemtobemanagedby
ViewManager.Theagentprovidesfeaturessuchasconnectionmonitoring,Virtual
Printing,USBsupport,andsinglesign‐on.
ViewClient—alocallyinstalledsoftwareapplicationthatcommunicateswith
ViewConnectionServerinordertoallowuserstoconnecttotheirdesktops.
ViewClientwithOfflineDesktop(experimental)—aversionofViewClientthatis
extendedtosupporttheOfflineDesktopfeaturewhichallowsuserstodownload
virtualmachinesandusethemontheirlocalsystems.
ViewPortal—aWeb‐basedversionofViewClientsupportedbymultipleoperating
systemsandbrowsers.
ViewAdministrator—aWebapplicationthatallowsViewManageradministrators
toconfigureViewConnectionServer,deployandmanagedesktops,controluser
authentication,initiateandexaminesystemev ents,andcarryoutanalytical
activities.
ViewComposer—asoftwareservicethatisinstalledonthevCenterServertoallow
ViewManagertorapidlydeploymultiplelinkedclonedesktopsfromasingle
centralizedbaseimage.
System Requirements
Thefollowingsectionsdescribethehardwareandsoftwarerequirementsforthemajor
componentsprovidedaspartofViewManager.
NOTEVMwareincludescertain“experimental”and“techpreview”featuresinsome
ofourproductreleases.Thesefeaturesarethereforyoutotestandexperimentwith.
Wedonotexpectthesefeaturestobeusedinaproductionenvironment.However,if
youdoencounteranyissueswithanexperimentalortech
previewfeature,weare
interestedinanyfeedbackyouarewillingtoshare.Pleasesubmitasupportrequestvia
thenormalaccessmethods.Youwillreceiveanauto‐acknowledgementofyourrequest.
Wecannot,however,committotroubleshoot,provideworkarounds,orprovidefixes
forthesefeatures.