Installation
Table Of Contents
- View Installation
- Contents
- View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Guest Operating Systems
- Installing View in an IPv6 Environment
- Setting Up View in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported vSphere, Database, and Active Directory Versions in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Operating Systems for View Servers in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Windows Operating Systems for Desktops and RDS Hosts in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Clients in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Remoting Protocols in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Authentication Types in an IPv6 Environment
- Other Supported Features in an IPv6 Environment
- Installing View in FIPS Mode
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for Remote Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Creating a User Account for a Standalone View Composer Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer AD Operations
- Create a User Account for Instant-Clone Operations
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using Horizon 7 Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Disable Weak Ciphers in SSL/TLS
- Installing View Composer
- Prepare a View Composer Database
- Configuring an SSL Certificate for View Composer
- Install the View Composer Service
- Enable TLSv1.0 on vCenter and ESXi Connections from View Composer
- Configuring Your Infrastructure for View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
- Reinstall View Connection Server with a Backup Configuration
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Components Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Understanding SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Overview of Tasks for Setting Up SSL Certificates
- Obtaining a Signed SSL Certificate from a CA
- Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Configure Client Endpoints to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Troubleshooting Certificate Issues on View Connection Server and Security Server
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- Horizon Administrator and Horizon Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the Product License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View
- Configure View Composer Settings
- Configure View Composer Domains
- Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
- Configure View Storage Accelerator for vCenter Server
- Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support Remote Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring Horizon Client Connections
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway and Secure Tunnel Connections
- Configure the Blast Secure Gateway
- Configuring External URLs for Secure Gateway and Tunnel Connections
- Set the External URLs for a View Connection Server Instance
- Modify the External URLs for a Security Server
- Give Preference to DNS Names When View Connection Server Returns Address Information
- Allow HTML Access Through a Load Balancer
- Allow HTML Access Through a Gateway
- Replacing Default Ports for View Services
- Replace the Default HTTP Ports or NICs for View Connection Server Instances and Security Servers
- Replace the Default Ports or NICs for the PCoIP Secure Gateway on View Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Control Port for PCoIP Secure Gateway on Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Port for View Composer
- Change the Port Number for HTTP Redirection to Connection Server
- Prevent HTTP Redirection for Client Connections to Connection Server
- Enable Remote Access to View Performance Counters on Connection Servers
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
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VMware Horizon View Message Bus Component
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VMware Horizon View Script Host
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VMware Horizon View Security Gateway Component
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VMware Horizon View PCoIP Secure Gateway
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VMware Horizon View Blast Secure Gateway
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VMware Horizon View Web Component
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VMware VDMDS, which provides View LDAP directory services
For information about these services, see the View Administration document.
If the Install HTML Access seing was selected during the installation, the HTML Access component is
installed on the Windows Server computer. This component congures the HTML Access icon in the
Horizon 7 user portal page and enables the VMware Horizon View Connection Server (Blast-In) rule in the
Windows Firewall. This rewall rule allows Web browsers on client devices to connect to the Connection
Server on TCP port 8443.
What to do next
Congure an SSL server certicate for the View Connection Server instance. See Chapter 8, “Conguring
SSL Certicates for View Servers,” on page 79.
You do not have to perform an initial View conguration on a replicated instance of View Connection
Server. The replicated instance inherits its conguration from the existing View Connection Server instance.
However, you might have to congure client connection seings for this View Connection Server instance,
and you can tune Windows Server seings to support a large deployment. See “Conguring Horizon Client
Connections,” on page 111 and “Sizing Windows Server Seings to Support Your Deployment,” on
page 124.
If you are reinstalling View Connection Server and you have a data collector set congured to monitor
performance data, stop the data collector set and start it again.
Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server Silently
You can use the silent installation feature of the Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) to install a replicated
instance of View Connection Server on several Windows computers. In a silent installation, you use the
command line and do not have to respond to wizard prompts.
With silent installation, you can eciently deploy View components in a large enterprise.
Prerequisites
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Verify that at least one View Connection Server instance is installed and congured on the network.
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To install the replicated instance, you must log in as a user with credentials to access the View
Administrators account. You specify the View Administrators account when you install the rst
instance of View Connection Server. The account can be the local Administrators group or a domain
user or group account. See “Install View Connection Server with a New Conguration,” on page 51.
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If the existing View Connection Server instance is in a dierent domain than the replicated instance, the
domain user must also have View Administrator privileges on the Windows Server computer where the
existing instance is installed.
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If you use MIT Kerberos authentication to log in to a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer on which you
are installing View Connection Server, install the Microsoft hotx that is described in KB 978116 at
hp://support.microsoft.com/kb/978116.
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Verify that your installation satises the requirements described in “Horizon Connection Server
Requirements,” on page 7.
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