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Table Of Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Guest Operating Systems
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for View Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for View Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Installing View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
- Reinstall View Connection Server with a Backup Configuration
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Understanding SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Overview of Tasks for Setting Up SSL Certificates
- Obtaining a Signed SSL Certificate from a CA
- Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Configure View Clients to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Checking in View Client for Windows
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- View Transfer Server and SSL Certificates
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Where to Use the vCenter Server User and Domain User for View Composer
- Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode
- View Manager Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- View Administrator and View Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the View Connection Server License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
- Configure View Composer Settings
- Configure View Composer Domains
- Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
- Configure View Storage Accelerator for vCenter Server
- Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support View Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Replacing Default Ports for View Services
- Replace the Default HTTP Ports or NICs for View Connection Server Instances and Security Servers
- Replace the Default Ports or NICs for the PCoIP Secure Gateway on View Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Port for View Composer
- Replace the Default Ports for View Transfer Server
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Adding the View Desktops Plug-in to the vSphere Web Client
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
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To open the port for HTML Access on a security server, manually enable the VMware View
Connection Server (Blast-In) rule in the Windows Firewall.
Configuring External URLs for Secure Gateway and Tunnel Connections
To use the secure tunnel, a client system must have access to an IP address, or a fully qualified domain name
(FQDN) that it can resolve to an IP address, that allows the client to reach a View Connection Server or
security server host.
To use the PCoIP Secure Gateway, a client system must have access to an IP address that allows the client to
reach a View Connection Server or security server host.
To use the Blast Secure Gateway, a user's endpoint device must have access to an FQDN that it can resolve
to an IP address that allows the user's Web browser to reach a View Connection Server or security server
host.
Using Tunnel Connections From External Locations
By default, a View Connection Server or security server host can be contacted only by tunnel clients that
reside within the same network and are therefore able to locate the requested host.
Many organizations require that users can connect from an external location by using a specific IP address
or client-resolvable domain name, and a specific port. This information might or might not resemble the
actual address and port number of the View Connection Server or security server host. The information is
provided to a client system in the form of a URL. For example:
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https://view-example.com:443
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https://view.example.com:443
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https://example.com:1234
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https://10.20.30.40:443
To use addresses like these in View Manager, you must configure the View Connection Server or security
server host to return an external URL instead of the host's FQDN.
Configuring External URLs
You configure more than one external URL. The first URL allows client systems to make tunnel connections.
A second URL allows client systems that use PCoIP to make secure connections through the PCoIP Secure
Gateway. You must specify the PCoIP external URL as an IP address, which allows client systems to connect
from an external location.
A third URL allows users to make secure connections from their Web browsers through the Blast Secure
Gateway.
If your network configuration includes security servers, provide external URLs for the security servers.
External URLs are not required on the View Connection Server instances that are paired with the security
servers.
The process of configuring the external URLs is different for View Connection Server instances and security
servers.
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For a View Connection Server instance, you set the external URLs by editing View Connection Server
settings in View Administrator.
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For a security server, you set the external URLs when you run the View Connection Server installation
program. You can use View Administrator to modify an external URL for a security server.
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