6.0
Table Of Contents
- View Upgrades
- Contents
- View Upgrades
- View Component Compatibility Matrix
- View Upgrade Overview
- System Requirements for Upgrades
- Preparing for a View Upgrade
- Upgrading View Server Components
- Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines
- Upgrading Remote Desktops and Horizon Client
- Upgrade RDS Hosts That Provide Session-Based Desktops
- Upgrade View Agent
- Upgrade View Composer Desktop Pools
- Tasks for Upgrading Desktop Pools to Use Space Reclamation
- Tasks for Upgrading Desktop Pools to Use a Virtual SAN Datastore
- Upgrade the Client Application
- Configure the VMware Horizon Web Portal Page for End Users
- Applying View Patches
- Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a View Environment
- Index
View Upgrade Overview 2
Upgrading an enterprise View deployment involves several high-level tasks. Upgrading is a multistage
process in which procedures must be performed in a particular order. You upgrade VMware View
®
Composer™ before upgrading View Connection Server and the other View servers.
IMPORTANT The VMware View
®
Client with Local Mode feature, for using offline desktops, has been
removed, and therefore this overview does not include steps for upgrading View Transfer Server instances
and View Client with Local Mode. In place of the Local Mode feature, VMware recommends using
VMware
®
Mirage™, which is included with VMware Horizon 6.0. For more information, see the View
Release Notes, available at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html.
During an upgrade, View does not support View Composer provisioning and maintenance operations.
Operations such as provisioning and recomposing linked-clone desktops are not supported during the
transitional period when any View servers are still running the earlier version. You can successfully perform
these operations only when all instances of View Connection Server and View Composer have been
upgraded.
You must complete the upgrade process in a specific order. Order is also important within each upgrade
stage.
NOTE This overview relates to upgrades for major, minor, and maintenance releases. For information about
patches, see Chapter 8, “Applying View Patches,” on page 59.
How many of the following tasks you need to complete depends on which components of View you use in
your deployment.
1 On the physical or virtual machines that host View Composer and VMware
®
vCenter Server™, make
backups and temporarily halt certain scheduled tasks. See “Preparing vCenter Server and View
Composer for an Upgrade,” on page 21.
For details about which versions of View are compatible with which versions of vCenter Server and
ESXi, see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php.
2 On the physical or virtual machines that host View Connection Server instances, make backups and
record various configuration and system settings. See “Preparing View Connection Server for an
Upgrade,” on page 23.
3 If you use security servers, perform the tasks in “Prepare to Upgrade or Reinstall a Security Server,” on
page 24.
4 Upgrade View Composer on the existing host or migrate to a new machine. See “Upgrade View
Composer,” on page 27.
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