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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fClickAdministratorsinthecolumnontheleftofthescreen.
gIntheAdministratorstable,clickAddandusetheformprovidedtogrant
administrativerightstotheActiv e Directoryuserswhoyouwanttobeableto
accesstoViewAdministrator.Onceyouhaveaddedalltherequired
administrators,click
OK.
View Connection Server Backup
Topreserveormigrateyourconfigurationinformation,ViewManagerallowsyouto
exportandimportthecontentsoftheViewLDAPrepositoryfromanystandardor
replicaViewConnectionServer.
ViewLDAPdataisexportedandimportedinLDAPdatainterchangeformat(LDIF),a
draftInternetstandardforafileformat
thatcanbeusedtoperformbatchoperations
againstdirectoriesthatconformtotheLDAPstandard.
Afteryoucompletetheinitialconfigurationofyoursingleserverorreplicatedgroup,
regularlytakebackupsofyourViewManagerdata.Donotrelyonreplicaserverstoact
asyourbackupmechanism,asany
datalostfromoneinstancewillbelostfromall
membersofthereplicatedgroupwhenthedataisharmonized.
ToscheduleregularautomaticbackupsofyourViewLDAPandViewComposerdata,
usetheViewManagerConfigurationBackupfeatureprovidedinViewAdministrator.
ThisfeatureisdescribedinTable 3‐3,
“ViewServerSettings,”onpage 58.
Alternatively,youcanusethevdmexport.exetomanuallyexportViewLDAPdata,as
describedinthissection.
LDIFdatacanbeexportedfromViewManagerusingthevdmexport.exetoolthat
accompanieseachstandardandreplicaViewConnectionServer.Thepathtothe
executablefileis:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\bin\vdmexport.exe
To export View Manager configuration data
From
thecommandpromptonastandardorreplicaViewConnectionServer,execute
thefollowingcommandasauserwithadministratorprivileges:
vdmexport> vdmconfig.ldf
N
OTEIfyouhavemultipleinstancesofViewConnectionServeroperatingina
replicatedgroup,youonlyneedtoexportthedatafromoneserver,asallreplicaservers
containthesameconfigurationdata.