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Table Of Contents
- View Architecture Planning
- Contents
- View Architecture Planning
- Introduction to View
- Planning a Rich User Experience
- Feature Support Matrix for View Agent
- Choosing a Display Protocol
- Using Hosted Applications
- Using View Persona Management to Retain User Data and Settings
- Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops
- Using the Real-Time Audio-Video Feature for Webcams and Microphones
- Using 3D Graphics Applications
- Streaming Multimedia to a Remote Desktop
- Printing from a Remote Desktop
- Using Single Sign-On for Logging In to a Remote Desktop
- Using Multiple Monitors
- Managing Desktop and Application Pools from a Central Location
- Architecture Design Elements and Planning Guidelines for Remote Desktop Deployments
- Virtual Machine Requirements for Remote Desktops
- View ESXi Node
- Desktop Pools for Specific Types of Workers
- Desktop Virtual Machine Configuration
- RDS Host Virtual Machine Configuration
- vCenter Server and View Composer Virtual Machine Configuration
- View Connection Server Maximums and Virtual Machine Configuration
- vSphere Clusters
- Storage and Bandwidth Requirements
- View Building Blocks
- View Pods
- Advantages of Using Multiple vCenter Servers in a Pod
- Planning for Security Features
- Understanding Client Connections
- Choosing a User Authentication Method
- Restricting Remote Desktop Access
- Using Group Policy Settings to Secure Remote Desktops and Applications
- Implementing Best Practices to Secure Client Systems
- Assigning Administrator Roles
- Preparing to Use a Security Server
- Understanding View Communications Protocols
- Overview of Steps to Setting Up a View Environment
- Index
View Administrator
This Web-based application allows administrators to configure View Connection Server, deploy and
manage remote desktops and applications, control user authentication, and troubleshoot end user issues.
When you install a View Connection Server instance, the View Administrator application is also installed.
This application allows administrators to manage View Connection Server instances from anywhere
without having to install an application on their local computer.
View Composer
You can install this software service on a vCenter Server instance that manages virtual machines or on a
separate server. View Composer can then create a pool of linked clones from a specified parent virtual
machine. This strategy reduces storage costs by up to 90 percent.
Each linked clone acts like an independent desktop, with a unique host name and IP address, yet the linked
clone requires significantly less storage because it shares a base image with the parent.
Because linked-clone desktop pools share a base image, you can quickly deploy updates and patches by
updating only the parent virtual machine. End users' settings, data, and applications are not affected.
Although you can install View Composer on its own server host, a View Composer service can operate with
only one vCenter Server instance. Similarly, a vCenter Server instance can be associated with only one View
Composer service.
vCenter Server
This service acts as a central administrator for VMware ESXiservers that are connected on a network.
vCenter Server, provides the central point for configuring, provisioning, and managing virtual machines in
the datacenter.
In addition to using these virtual machines as sources for virtual machine desktop pools, you can use virtual
machines to host the server components of View including View Connection Server instances, Active
Directory servers, Microsoft RDS hosts, and vCenter Server instances.
You can install View Composer on the same server as vCenter Server or on a different server.vCenter Server
then manages the assignment of the virtual machines to physical servers and storage and manages the
assignment of CPU and memory resources to virtual machines.
You can install vCenter Server either as a VMware virtual appliance or install vCenter Server in a Windows
Server 2008 R2 server, a Windows Server 2012 server, or a Windows Server 2012 R2 server, preferably on a
VMware virtual machine.
Integrating and Customizing View
To enhance the effectiveness of View in your organization, you can use several interfaces to integrate View
with external applications or to create administration scripts that you can run from the command line or in
batch mode.
Integrating with Other VMware Horizon Components
VMware Workspace
You can integrate Workspace with View to provide the following benefits to
IT managers and end users:
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End users have on-demand access to remote desktops and applications
through the same user portal on the Web that they use to access SaaS,
Web, and Windows applications, with the same single sign-on
convenience.
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