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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
4 (Optional) Upgrade VMware
®
Tools™ and the virtual machines on all parent virtual machines, virtual
machine templates, and virtual machines that host View server components such as View Connection
Server instances.
a Plan for down time, as described in the VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide.
b Update VMware Tools, and upgrade the virtual machine hardware for virtual machines that will
be used as sources for remote desktops.
To use the Windows 7 3D rendering feature, you must upgrade the virtual machine hardware to
version 8 or later.
To use the space-efficient disk format feature, you must upgrade the virtual machine hardware to
version 9 or later. This feature pertains to linked-clone pools.
If you use VMware vSphere
®
Update Manager™, you can update VMware Tools and then the
virtual hardware version in the correct order for all the virtual machines in a particular folder. See
the VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide.
5 (Optional) If you use full-clone desktops, on each virtual machine, upgrade VMware Tools and the
virtual hardware for virtual machines that will be used as sources for remote desktops.
To use the Windows 7 3D rendering feature, you must upgrade the virtual machine hardware to
version 8 or later.
If you use vSphere Update Manager, you can update VMware Tools and then the virtual hardware
version in the correct order for all the virtual machines in a particular folder. See the VMware vSphere
Upgrade Guide.
What to do next
Upgrade View Agent. See “Upgrade View Agent,” on page 48.
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