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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
Preparing a Parent VM
TheParentVMisusedbylinkedclonedesktopsasthebaseimageforeachlinked
desktopclone.ForaParentVMtobeusedbyViewManagerinalinkedclonedesktop
deployment,youmustfirstinstalltheViewAgentonitsoperatingsystem.
Makesurethatyouhaveadministrative
rightstotheParentVMandthatthefollowing
prerequisitesareinplace.EnsurethattheParentVM:
IsjoinedtotheActiveDirectorydomaininwhichyouwantlinkedclonedesktops
toreside.
Networkingsettings(proxies,andsoforth)areproperlyconfigured.
UsesDHCPinordertoacquireitsIPaddress.
SystemdiskistobeattachedtotheSCSI(0:0)VirtualDeviceNode.Thisproperty
canbeconfiguredfromwithinvCenterServer.
Operatingsystempowersettingsaresettoremainonatalltimes.
Systemdiskcontainsasinglevolume(multiplevirtualdisksaresupported).
TheViewAgentserviceisinstalledandisrunning.
Ifyouhavenotalreadydoneso,installthelatestoperatingsystemandapplication
servicepacksandpatchesontheParentVM.
DHCP Lease Removal
ItisrecommendedthatyoureleaseanyDHCPinformationthatmayexistontheParent
VMsothataleasedIPaddressisnotreplicatedamongstthelinkedclonesinthepool.
YoucanreleaseaDHCPleasebyopeningacommandpromptontheParentVMand
enteringthefollowing:
ipconfig /release
CAUTIONDonotattempttodeployclonesfromaParentVMthatcontainsmorethan
onevolumeastheresultofdiskpartitioning.Multiplepartitionsarenotsupportedby
theViewComposerservice.
NOTEForautomatedupdatingofViewAgentinlargeenvironments,VMware
recommendsusingstandardWindowsupdatemechanismssuchasAltiris,SMS,
LanDesk,BMC,orothersystemsmanagementsoftware.