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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 defines virtual machine storage requirements, such as capacity, performance, and availability, in the
form of default storage policy profiles, depending on the pool settings used. Storage is provisioned and
automatically configured according to the assigned policies.
NOTE The space reclamation feature is not supported if your virtual machine desktops are hosted on
Virtual SAN datastores.
Upgrading from View 5.3.1 on a Virtual SAN Datastore
Horizon 6.0 with View introduced some new default storage policies for Virtual SAN. These policies will
not automatically apply to existing virtual machine desktops created on Virtual SAN by View 5.3.1 after the
desktop pool is upgraded to 6.0. In addition, when you upgrade from View 5.3.1, the Use VMware Virtual
SAN pool setting will not automatically be enabled, even if the pool is on a Virtual SAN datastore. You have
the following upgrade options:
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After upgrading, continue to use the default storage policies that were used with View 5.3.1. If you
choose this option, edit the pool settings so that Use VMware Virtual SAN is enabled.
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Use the procedure described in this topic so that the desktop pool uses the new default storage policies.
This procedure involves rebalancing the desktop pool to a non-Virtual SAN datastore and then
upgrading and rebalancing back to the Virtual SAN datastore.
IMPORTANT The tasks outlined in this procedure describe upgrading from a View 5.3.1 desktop pool using a
Virtual SAN datastore on a VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 cluster. Upgrading from Virtual SAN datastore
on a VMware vSphere 5.5 or earlier cluster (a Tech Preview feature) is not supported.
Also, because this procedure involves recomposing the desktop pool, any changes that end users have made
to the operating system disk will be lost.
1 Verify that all virtual machines in the pool are VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 or later virtual machines.
2 Edit the pool settings of the desktop pool to change the datastore from a Virtual SAN datastore to a
non-Virtual SAN datastore, and use the Rebalance command.
For instructions on editing server settings and using the Rebalance command, click the Help button in
View Administrator.
3 Upgrade the desktop pool to the latest version, as described in “Upgrade View Composer Desktop
Pools,” on page 50.
This process includes installing the latest version of View Agent on the parent virtual machine and
taking a snapshot.
4 Recompose the pool on the non-Virtual SAN datastore using the snapshot of the parent virtual machine
you just created.
For instructions on recomposing pools, click the Help button in View Administrator.
5 Edit the pool settings of the newly upgraded desktop pool to change the datastore from a non-Virtual
SAN datastore to a Virtual SAN datastore, and use the Rebalance command.
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