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 4 Virtual Desktop Deployment
ConfigureActiveDirectorysettings.
aConfigurethepreferredandalternateDNSserverstouseyourActive
Directoryserveraddresses.
Forexample,onWindowsXP,configuretheDNSserversettingsfromthe
propertiesmenu:
Start>ControlPanel>NetworkConnections>LAN>PropertiesInternet
Protocol(TCP/IP)>Properties>Usethefollowing
DNSserveraddresses
bJointheguestsystemtotheappropriateActiveDirectorydomain.
IftheguestsystemhasmorethanonevirtualNIC,youmustconfigurethesubnet
thatViewAgentwilluse.Foradditionalinformation,see“UsingtheViewAgent
onVirtualMachineswithMultipleNICs”onpage 71.
ConfigurethefirewalltoallowRemoteDesktopconnections.
Makesurethatyouhaveadministrativerightstotheguestsystem.
(Optional)Configureusercustomizationscripts.
(Optional)Followtheperformanceoptimizationguidelinesdescribedinthe
WindowsXPDeploymentGuide.
Installing the View Agent on the Guest System
YoumustinstalltheViewAgentontheguestsystemtoenabletheViewConnection
Servertocommunicatewithvirtualdesktops.
To install View Agent
1Runthefollowingexecutableontheguestsystem,wherexxxxxxisthebuild
numberofthefile:
VMware-viewagent-xxxxxx.exe
2WhentheVMwareInstallationwizardappears,clickNext.
3AccepttheVMwarelicensetermsandclickNext.
4 Selectyourcustomsetupoptions.
YoumustinstalltheViewComposerAgentifyouwanttodeploylinkedclone
desktops.RefertoChapter 6,“ViewComposer,”onpage 127forfurther
informationaboutthisfeature.