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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
If you plan to deploy instant clones, you can use this procedure to create a parent virtual machine for an
instant-clone desktop pool. When you upgrade Horizon Agent on a parent virtual machine, simply select
the appropriate option for an instant-clone desktop pool.
IMPORTANT The Horizon Agent installer now includes all components that were previously included in the
Remote Experience Agent, which was part of the VMware Horizon™ View™ Feature Pack. To upgrade
features that were installed with the Remote Experience Agent, you can simply run the Horizon Agent
installer. This installer removes the Remote Experience Agent before performing the upgrade. If, for some
reason, you decide to manually remove the Remote Experience Agent, be sure to do so before you run the
installer for the new version of Horizon Agent.
Prerequisites
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Verify that at least one View Connection Server instance in the replicated group has been upgraded.
View Connection Server must be upgraded first so that the secure JMS pairing mechanism can work
with Horizon Agent.
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If you are upgrading ESXi hosts and virtual machines, complete the procedure described in Chapter 4,
“Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines,” on page 45.
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Verify that you have a domain user account with administrative privileges on the hosts that you will
use to run the installer and perform the upgrade.
Procedure
1 If you plan to deploy instant clones or View Composer linked clones, upgrade the agent software on a
parent virtual machine and create a desktop pool for testing purposes.
a Download and run the new version of the Horizon Agent installer on a parent virtual machine.
You can download the installer from the VMware Web site.
b Create a small desktop pool from this virtual machine.
c Test a virtual machine desktop from the desktop pool to verify that all the usage scenarios function
properly.
For example, create a desktop pool that contains one virtual machine desktop, and verify that you
can use Horizon Client to log in to that desktop.
Step-by-step instructions for running the Horizon Agent installer and creating desktop pools appear in
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View, available by clicking the Help button in View
Administrator.
IMPORTANT If you are upgrading from View 5.1.x or earlier, and you use Sysprep, and your end users
will connect USB devices to their remote desktops, you must follow the procedure described in the
VMware Knowledge Base, at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2051801. Otherwise, after you upgrade the
agent software, the USB redirection feature might not work.
2 On the other parent virtual machines and virtual machine templates, download and run the installer for
the new version of Horizon Agent.
Step-by-step instructions for running the Horizon Agent installer and creating desktop pools appear in
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View, available by clicking the Help button in View
Administrator.
3 If you plan to create instant-clone or View Composer linked-clone desktop pools, take a snapshot of
each upgraded parent virtual machine.
Use the new snapshot for creating an instant-clone or linked-clone desktop pool, or for recomposing an
existing linked-clone desktop pool.
For instructions on taking snapshots, see the vSphere Client online help.
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