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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
Upgrading View Server Components 5
The server components that you must upgrade include View Connection Server, replicated servers, and
security servers. Depending on the optional components you use, you might also need to upgrade
View Composer.
NOTE The Local Mode feature for Horizon Client has been removed, and therefore View Transfer Server
instances are no longer required. In place of the Local Mode feature, VMware recommends using Mirage,
which is included with VMware Horizon 6. 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.
For View patch releases, see Chapter 8, “Applying View Patches,” on page 59.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Upgrade View Composer,” on page 27
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“Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group,” on page 36
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“Upgrade View Security Server,” on page 41
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“Upgrade vCenter Server,” on page 42
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“Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files,” on page 43
Upgrade View Composer
During the first maintenance window, you will upgrade View Composer. Operations such as provisioning
and recomposing linked-clone desktops are not supported until all View servers are upgraded.
IMPORTANT If your current version of View Composer is installed on a computer with a Windows Server
2003 operating system, see the procedure called "Manually Migrate View Composer to the New Machine" in
the VMware View 4.6 Upgrades document. After you migrate View Composer 2.6 to a system with a Windows
Server operating system that is supported for this release, you can perform an in-place upgrade to the latest
version of View Composer.
To migrate an already upgraded View Composer to a different physical or virtual machine, see “Migrate
View Composer to Another Machine,” on page 31.
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