Installation

For details about conguring SSL certicates and using the SviConfig ReplaceCertificate utility, see
Chapter 8, “Conguring SSL Certicates for View Servers,” on page 79.
If you install vCenter Server and View Composer on the same Windows Server computer, they can use the
same SSL certicate, but you must congure the certicate separately for each component.
Install the View Composer Service
To use View Composer, you must install the View Composer service. View uses View Composer to create
and deploy linked-clone desktops in vCenter Server.
You can install the View Composer service on the Windows Server computer on which vCenter Server is
installed or on a separate Windows Server computer. A standalone View Composer installation works with
vCenter Server installed on a Windows Server computer and with the Linux-based vCenter Server
Appliance.
The View Composer software cannot coexist on the same virtual or physical machine with any other View
software component, including a replica server, security server, View Connection Server, Horizon Agent, or
Horizon Client.
For enhanced security, we recommend conguring cipher suites to remove known vulnerabilities. For
instructions on how to set up a domain policy on cipher suites for Windows machines that run View
Composer or Horizon Agent, see “Disable Weak Ciphers in SSL/TLS,” on page 35.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your installation satises the View Composer requirements described in “View Composer
Requirements,” on page 10.
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Verify that no other View component, including View Connection Server, security server, Horizon
Agent, or Horizon Client, is installed on the machine on which you intend to install View Composer.
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Verify that you have a license to install and use View Composer.
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Verify that you have the DSN, domain administrator user name, and password that you provided in the
ODBC Data Source Administrator wizard. You enter this information when you install the View
Composer service.
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If you plan to congure an SSL certicate signed by a CA for View Composer during the installation,
verify that your certicate is imported in the Windows local computer certicate store. See Chapter 8,
“Conguring SSL Certicates for View Servers,” on page 79.
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Verify that no applications that run on the View Composer computer use Windows SSL libraries that
require SSL version 2 (SSLv2) provided through the Microsoft Secure Channel (Schannel) security
package. The View Composer installer disables SSLv2 on the Microsoft Schannel. Applications such as
Tomcat, which uses Java SSL, or Apache, which uses OpenSSL, are not aected by this constraint.
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To run the View Composer installer, you must be a user with administrator privileges on the system.
Procedure
1 Download the View Composer installer le from the VMware product page at
hp://www.vmware.com/products/ to the Windows Server computer.
The installer lename is VMware-viewcomposer-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe, where xxxxxx is the build number and
y.y.y is the version number. This installer le installs the View Composer service on 64-bit Windows
Server operating systems.
2 To start the View Composer installation program, right-click the installer le and select Run as
administrator.
3 Accept the VMware license terms.
4 Accept or change the destination folder.
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