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
View Manager Administration Guide
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Tofurtherenhancethehigh‐availabilityandscalabilityrequirementsofyourView
environment,itisrecommendedthatyoudeployaloadbalancingsolution—this
ensuresthatconnectionsaredistributedevenlyacrosseachavailableViewConnection
Server,andthatfailedorinaccessibleserversareautomaticallyexcludedfromthe
replicatedgroup.
To install a replica server
1Runthefollowing
executableonthesystemthatwillhosttheViewConnection
Server,wherexxxisthebuildnumberofthefile:
VMware-viewconnectionserver-xxx.exe
TheVMwareInstallationwizardisdisplayed.ClickNext.
2AccepttheVMwarelicenseterms,andclickNext.
3Acceptorchangethedestinationfolder,andclickNext.
4 ChoosetheReplicadeploymentoption.
5Enterthe
hostnameorIPaddressoftheexistingViewConnectionServerthatyou
wanttoreplicate.Ifthetargetsystemisnotpartofthesamedomainasthemain
server,youwillrequirelocaladministrativerightsonthetargetservertodothis.
6ClickNext>Install>Finish.
Security Server Installation
Ademilitarizedzone(DMZ)isasemi‐protectedsub‐networkthatexistsbetweena
secureinternalnetworkandaninsecureexternalnetwork.Servicesthatexistwithin
thisspaceareexposedtobothnetworksandprovideanentrypointforexternalusers
toaccessapplicationsthatresidewithinthesecureenvironment.
View
ConnectionServersecurityserversareinstalledintheDMZinordertoaddan
additionallayerofnetworkprotection;theyensurethatonlyauthenticateduserscan
connecttotheinternalnetworkfromexternallocationsbyprovidingasinglepointof
access.BecausetheinboundcommunicationsfromDMZservicescanbestrictly
controlledthroughfirewallpolicy,theriskoftheinternalnetworkbeingcompromised
isgreatlyreduced.
N
OTEViewConnectionServerdoesnotprovideload‐balancingfunctionalitybut
workswithstandardthird‐partyload‐balancingsolutions.
NOTEInLAN‐baseddeployments,nosecurityserversarerequiredasuserscan
connectdirectlywithanyViewConnectionServerfromwithintheirinternalnetwork.