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Table Of Contents
- View Upgrades
- Contents
- View Upgrades
- View Upgrade Overview
- System Requirements for Upgrades
- Upgrading View Server Components
- Upgrading View Composer
- Upgrading View Connection Server
- Preparing View Connection Server for an Upgrade
- Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group
- Enable TLSv1.0 on vCenter Connections from Connection Server
- Upgrade to the Latest Version of View Connection Server on a Different Machine
- Create a Replicated Group After Reverting View Connection Server to a Snapshot
- Upgrading View Security Server
- Upgrading View Servers in a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- Upgrading View Servers to Allow HTML Access
- Upgrade vCenter Server
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines
- Upgrading Remote Desktops and Horizon Client
- Post-Upgrade Tasks to Enable New Features in Your View Setup
- Applying View Patches
- Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a View Environment
- Index
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Familiarize yourself with configuring an SSL certificate for View Composer. See "Configuring SSL
Certificates for View Servers" in the View Installation document.
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Familiarize yourself with the steps for removing View Composer from View Administrator. See topic
about removing View Composer from View Administrator in the View Administration document.
Before you can remove View Composer, verify that it no longer manages any linked-clone virtual
machines. If any linked clones remain, you must delete them.
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Familiarize yourself with configuring View Composer in View Administrator. See the topics about
configuring View Composer settings and View Composer domains in the View Administration
document.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, remove View Composer from View Administrator.
a Select View Configuration > Servers.
b On the vCenter Servers tab, select the vCenter Server instance that is associated with the View
Composer service and click Edit.
c In the View Composer Server Settings pane, click Edit.
d Select Do not use View Composer and click OK.
2 Uninstall the VMware Horizon View Composer service from the current machine.
3 Install the VMware Horizon View Composer service on the new machine.
During the installation, configure View Composer to connect to the DSN of the original or new View
Composer database.
4 Configure an SSL server certificate for View Composer on the new machine.
You might be able to copy the certificate that was installed for View Composer on the original machine,
or you can install a new certificate.
5 In View Administrator, configure the new View Composer settings.
a In View Administrator, select View Configuration > Servers.
b On the vCenter Servers tab, select the vCenter Server instance that is associated with this View
Composer service and click Edit.
c In the View Composer Server Settings pane, click Edit.
d Provide the new View Composer settings.
If you are installing View Composer with vCenter Server on the new machine, select View
Composer co-installed with the vCenter Server.
If you are installing View Composer on a standalone machine, select Standalone View Composer
Server and provide the FQDN of the View Composer machine and the user name and password of
the View Composer user.
e In the Domains pane, click Verify Server Information and add or edit the View Composer
domains as needed.
f Click OK.
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