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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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Chapter 6 View Composer
5EnteraDSNtousewithViewComposer,adescriptionofthedatasource,anda
userIDtoconnecttothedatabase.
FortheTNSServiceName,selecttheGlobalDatabaseName(specifiedinthe
OracleDatabaseConfigurationAssistant)fromthedrop‐downmenu.
6ClickTestConnectiontoverifythe
datasourceandclickOK.
Adding the View Composer Service to vCenter Server
ViewComposerisusedbyViewManagertocreateanddeploylinkedclonedesktops
fromvCenterServer.Duringtheinstallationoftheserviceyouareofferedthe
opportunitytospecifywhichporttheserviceshouldusetocommunicatewithView
ConnectionServer.IfWindowsfirewallisrunningonthevCenterServer
host,you
mustaddthisporttotheexceptionlistordeactivatethelocalfirewallservice.
ThefollowingproceduredescribeshowtoinstalltheViewComposerserviceonthe
vCenterServer,andconfigureittouseadatasourcethatisdedicatedtothestorageof
linkedclones.
To install the View Composer service
1Runthe
ViewComposerserviceinstallationprogram,wherexxxisthebuild
numberoftheexecutablefile:
VMware-viewcomposer-xxx.exe
2AccepttheVMwarelicensetermsandclickNext.
3AcceptorchangethedestinationfolderpathandclickNext.
4IntheDatasourceNamefieldenterthenameyouprovidedintheMicrosoftODBC
DataSourceAdministratorwizardforyourdatabase(inthepreviousexample,
VMware View Composer).
5Enteradomainadministratorusernameand
passwordinthefieldsprovidedand
clickNext.
6 SelecttheCreateanewRSAkeycontainerradiobutton.AnRSAkeypairis
createdinordertoencryptanddecrypttheActiveDirectoryauthentication
informationthatwillbestoredinsidetheViewComposerdatabase.ClickNext.
N
OTEYouwillusetheDSNduringViewComposerinstallation.