7.0

Table Of Contents
Contents
View Upgrades 5
1
View Upgrade Overview 7
2
System Requirements for Upgrades 11
Compatibility Matrix for Various Versions of View Components 11
View Composer Requirements 12
Supported Operating Systems for View Composer 12
Hardware Requirements for Standalone View Composer 13
Database Requirements for View Composer and the Events Database 13
Upgrade Requirements for View Composer 14
View Connection Server Requirements 15
Hardware Requirements for View Connection Server 15
Supported Operating Systems for View Connection Server 15
Upgrade Requirements for View Connection Server 15
Supported Operating Systems for Horizon Agent 17
3
Upgrading View Server Components 19
Upgrading View Composer 19
Preparing vCenter Server and View Composer for an Upgrade 20
Upgrade View Composer 21
Enable TLSv1.0 on vCenter and ESXi Connections from View Composer 22
Manually Upgrading the View Composer Database 23
Migrate View Composer to Another Machine 26
Upgrading View Connection Server 31
Preparing View Connection Server for an Upgrade 31
Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group 32
Enable TLSv1.0 on vCenter Connections from Connection Server 35
Upgrade to the Latest Version of View Connection Server on a Different Machine 36
Create a Replicated Group After Reverting View Connection Server to a Snapshot 37
Upgrading View Security Server 37
Preparing View Security Server for an Upgrade 37
Upgrade View Security Servers and Their Paired View Connection Servers 38
Upgrading View Servers in a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment 40
Upgrading View Servers to Allow HTML Access 41
Upgrade vCenter Server 41
Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate 42
Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files 43
4
Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines 45
VMware, Inc.
3