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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
View Upgrades
View Upgrades provides instructions for upgrading from Horizon View 5.x (which includes 5.0.1, 5.1.3, 5.2,
5.3, and 5.3.1) to VMware Horizon™ with View™ 6.0. You can also use this guide when you upgrade to
View maintenance and patch releases.
If you are also upgrading your version of VMware vSphere
®
, this guide tells you which steps of that
upgrade to do at various stages of the View upgrade.
For View patch releases, see Chapter 8, “Applying View Patches,” on page 59.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for anyone who needs to upgrade to this latest version of View. The information in
this guide is written for experienced Microsoft Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar
with virtual machine technology and datacenter operations.
VMware, Inc.
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