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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Chapter 1 Introduction
Operating System Support for Installed Components
Table 1‐1describesthesupportofferedbyvarioustypesofWindowsoperatingsystem
tothelocallyinstalledcomponentsofViewManager.Foreachofthesecomponents,
only32‐bitsupportisoffered.Anyadditionalenvironmentalrequirementsofthese
componentsaredescribedinsubsequentsections.Thecolumnsrepresentedinthis
tableare:
ViewAgent—referstotheViewAgentservicethatisinstalledonaViewManager
desktop.Theentriesinthiscolumnaretheoperatingsystemsthatcanbemanaged
byViewManager.Thecolumnisdividedintotwosub‐columns:
Virtual—referstothevirtualsystemssupportedasguests.Thesesystems
couldresidewithinVMwarevSpherewheretheyareprovisionedand
managed,orcouldexistasstandalonesystemswithinanotherVMware
applicationsuchasVMwareServer.
Physical—referstothephysicalsystemssupportedasalternatemultiple
back‐ends,includingterminalservers.
ViewClient—referstotheViewClientapplication.Theentriesinthiscolumnare
theoperatingsystemscapableofinstallingandrunningthisapplication.
OfflineDesktop—referstotheViewClientforOfflineDesktopapplication.
The entriesinthiscolumnaretheoperatingsystemscapableofinstallingand
runningthisapplication.ForalistoftheViewManagerdesktopsthatcanbe
downloadedandusedinanofflinecontext,referto“ViewClientwithOffline
Desktop:Supported
Guests”onpage 22.
ViewComposer—referstotheViewComposerservicethatrunsonthevCenter
Serverhostsystem.Theentriesinthiscolumnaretheoperatingsystemscapableof
runningthisservice.
N
OTETherequirementsforViewConnectionServerarenotincludedinthis
table—referto“ViewConnectionServer”onpage 15fordetailedinformationabout
thiscomponent.